The Anchoress
…can take Lehman Bros, the financial crisis and Hurricane Ike and put it together in a meaningful and ultimately uplifting way Read more
…can take Lehman Bros, the financial crisis and Hurricane Ike and put it together in a meaningful and ultimately uplifting way Read more
Am in late and there’s much to do, but I must ask – can anyone tell me why Al Gore looks like my mother in this picture? Is that lipstick? Has he had his eyes done? Is it botox? Why does he look like he just got done playing Mrs. Doubtfire and forgot to use the cold creme? I mean…that is a drastic change in look, is it not? Or is it just me? Read more
We have a priest in our parish who is from India. He is a kind, lovely and holy man, and one-on-one I can understand him very well (lip-reading helps, I think) but at mass, over the microphone, I really can’t make him out very well. Today, all through his sermon I kept hearing: “God is crazy. The craziness of God.” Eventually I figured it out: God is gracious. The graciousness of God. Sheesh. Hearing losses suck. I’m almost ready for... Read more
Yes, I know is voice is grating, yes I know he can be too rude by half on his program, but take the time to listen to this audio of last Friday’s Mark Levin show. (H/T Ace) You want the breakdown of what happened and why it happened? Levin gives it to you in plain language. Listen to it, even if you really don’t want to. I didn’t want to, but it’s important that we understand what happened, here, historically,... Read more
A little late getting this completed, sorry – a technical difficulty not, for once, caused by my own ignorance. Podcast of Compline for Saturday. Have a good night, everyone. Read more
My mother, Sister David, was ill and in bed, and I was getting ready to leave to speak to the National Council of Catholic Women. Sister David had a bird in her room, a little parakeet, and I said to the bird, “So long, Chico.” And she said, “Sock it to ’em, Angelica.” “It’s the Lord.” I told David. She looked at me and said, “No, it’s Sister Regina. She taught him that.” You know what the lesson there, is?... Read more
Over at Pajamas Media, Dr. Melissa Clouthier is having trouble integrating after Hurricane Ike even though, as she quickly admits, many are much worse off than she. Every home — and that is not an exaggeration — had at least one tree down. The community is called The Woodlands for a reason. Trees define it. The question was where the trees went. Many went through the roofs of their owner’s homes causing flooding. Saturday morning brought unrelenting rain, so a... Read more
You’ll have to forgive if I sound like I’m choking here and there…I sort of was. Sore throat and fever are better, but clearly I still don’t sound normal. The podcast for Compline for Friday can be found here. As ever, I recommend you keeping this window open during the office. There is no music; it is simply the Blessed Sacrament on a live feed out of a monastery in PA. Also, Fr. James Martin continues his video series on... Read more
“If you’re demented, you’re wasting people’s lives — your family’s lives — and you’re wasting the resources of the National Health Service.” So says Baroness Warnock, who has been advocating euthanasia in Britain for a long time is at it again. I’m too under the weather to write, but I address this troubled woman, when my brother was dying, in this piece: Our brother has lately gone quiet. He moans and coughs. When he does speak it is a word... Read more
If he was any sort of man, Gibson would apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for deliberately misquoting her, and for his condescending tone, and for his “cueing” the left to their talking points, and for his relentless unprofessionalism and obvious disdain. He won’t. But he should. This is a pretty strong video. And it makes me remember while I like Palin. Also: Ann Althouse has thoughts on the egregious Obama/Rush Limbaugh ad, an ad that proves the Obama camp is... Read more
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