do go look at Fausta’s brilliant parody. And pay attention to the numbers. The president wants to find $100 Million dollars in wasteful spending? He should, perhaps start with his travel budget. UPDATE: So, the FAA knew they would be creating panic in NYC, but they didn’t care. For a photo-op! And they used to call the Bushies “arrogant!” Who was on the plane? I thought I saw something yesterday about reporters wanting to see the flight manifest. I’ve had... Read more
Regular readers are aware that I once wrote a post entitled Labia’s Up; Vagina Gazing Season is Open. It is evidence of my own naivete that I created that title without ever once considering the shock-effect it would have on people using google to search for something very different than a rant about The Vagina Monologues. As I have written, I have loud issues with that insipid play and so my warrior vagina and I have done battle against it,... Read more
Got this from reader Kay, and knew you’d want to know about it: You might remember her as the little girl with no hair — but with a huge smile — who asked the Washington Redskins’ Jason Taylor to dance during one of St. Jude’s “Thanks and Giving” commercials last fall. That was Catie O’Brien, 7, then a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., where she was undergoing treatment for a rare type of pediatric cancer... Read more
I am getting a lot of emails from readers who are wondering why they can’t move around the site, can’t comment, etc. May I suggest whenever you hit the site immediately press your shift key while hitting “refresh.” I hope you won’t have to do it for more than a day or two, but there is a glitch somewhere, so if you want to read, or see if I’ve written anything new, or comment, you’ll try doing the shift/refresh thing.... Read more
It’s spring; that time before summer when you get to decide what’s a flower and what’s a weed. Kind of like that with the news, too. Let’s look around – lots of stuff I’ve been meaning to share with you, and you can determine the weeds from the flowers on your own! Quote of the day, week, month, etc: Isn’t it fabulous how Obama has reconciled with our enemies and put fear into the hearts of Americans? Does any image... Read more
Just about a year ago, thanks to Fausta I posted an exquisite little gem of a film short, by a young artist named Joe Gleason. He called the film “The Dinner Guest” and its simplicity and sweetness made people weep. At the time, I wrote: “…the joys of anticipation to which we – in our era of immediate gratification – no longer allow ourselves. Perhaps that is why it made one of Fausta’s reader’s weep; perhaps we miss anticipation in... Read more
Good Morning! It’s a new day, and we’re going to be up, up, up-and-at-’em all day! In talking with Ed on his radio show yesterday, I realized it was time to get back to these, so here is a podcast of Morning Prayer for today, using the Christian Prayer Breviary, which I love. Please pray with me! We can all use it! Reminder: If you need to update your feedburner subscription, the RSS feed is: http://www.firstthings.com/theanchoress/?feed=rss2 Amazon.com Widgets Read more
Just about a year ago, thanks to Fausta I posted an exquisite little gem of a film short, by a young artist named Joe Gleason. He called the film “The Dinner Guest” and its simplicity and sweetness made people weep. At the time, I wrote: “…the joys of anticipation to which we – in our era of immediate gratification – no longer allow ourselves. Perhaps that is why it made one of Fausta’s reader’s weep; perhaps we miss anticipation in... Read more
As Auntie Lillie used to say, “welladay!” The technical difficulties are not wholly fixed, but we should be mostly readable/usable for now. I thank you all for putting up with the ups and downs for the last two days. Thanks, too, to Ed Morrissey for inviting me onto his radio broadcast. He was a heaven-sent distraction from all the techno-woes. He asked me on for “a few minutes” and we ended up doing an hour of live chat; my first... Read more
The image is – according to the press release, meant to be deliberately ambiguous: we see Barack Obama once again being presented in the image of the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world – an image and narrative that some clearly can’t communicate enough. He stands before the Great Seal of the President of the United States, which surrounds him like a golden nimbus, and the effect creates a pentagon over the seal. His head... Read more
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