Wherein Tracey reads her niece a bedtime story… and traumatizes herself. The basic setup for Donkeyskin is this: Handsome king and beautiful queen have a beautiful daughter and a magic donkey that poos gold. The beautiful queen falls deathly ill, and in a final beautifully bitchy act, makes the handsome king promise never to marry again unless he finds a woman as beautiful and virtuous as she. Beautiful queen dies happy — haha! — because she knows he will never... Read more
I’m finding myself out of patience with blogging today – maybe I have spring fever. I’m craving a cup of coffee and a walk through a woods – so here’s a quick look at what I’ve been looking at online, and then I think I’ll make myself a large cup of Mystic Monk Dark Roast and I’ll travel-mug it outside: The other day I wrote about Bobby Kennedy, today at Inside Catholic Mark Stricherz writes about the death of the... Read more
Dr Melissa Clouthier has a great post up about amazing people and nearly miraculous things. I urge you to go read it; my favorite part was this astounding video of what an autistic man can draw by memory after a 45 minute helicopter tour of Rome. We humans are wonderously, gloriously made, and for all we think we know, I don’t think we understand a bare tenth of what makes us the creatures we are, about ourselves, our brains, our... Read more
I am a scorned wife, faithful, yet insulted. Heavens, what did I do? Yet he is my love, my husband, my beloved, my hope. Via Vodkapundit (Thanks, Dick) who points out that today is the live Met broadcast of La Boheme, which I sadly cannot get to, but I hope to see the encore tomorrow! And for genius of a “ballsy” sort – honestly this just gets more amazing as you watch it, so don’t miss it; he never does!... Read more
…and vise-versa. Yes, I know, it’s obvious, but sometimes the obvious must be stated, and a guest post at Brutally Honest has brought us to one of those times. Rick’s guest blogger, Tom Flake, urging “intellectual honesty” writes: Sean Hannity, perhaps more than any other pundit, has lambasted Senator Obama for his association with Pastor Wright. At the same time, while verbally condemning the Catholic hierarchy for its lack of action in the church pedophilia scandal, where, not only were... Read more
My dear Blogfather Ed Morrissey, writing at Hot Air, takes a look at this rather drama-queeny column by E.J. Dionne and then lays Dionne out nicely: E.J. Dionne commemorates the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King by proclaiming it the day that liberalism died. He argues that King’s death led to the election of Richard Nixon, thanks to his “coded racism” of law and order, and that liberalism died on the balcony at the Lorraine in... Read more
Alright all you cretinous conservatives or right-of-center types, and you know who you are, head over to Small Dead Animals forthwith and listen to your bigoted betters explain it all. Go. Now. You know you will obey, because you can’t think for yourself! Seems to me whenever I categorize anything under “The Fourth Estate,” I also need to categorize them under “The Perpetual Adolescents.” Which is telling. Read more
Thanks to Bender, today we read a most interesting and impressive story. St. Perpetua and her friend St. Felicity were martyred in Rome; Perpetua, who was nursing her infant, left what is believed to be the first autobiographical diary written by a woman, of her time of oppression for her Christianity: . I suckled my child, which was now enfeebled with hunger. In my anxiety for it, I addressed my mother and comforted my brother, and commended to their care... Read more
I’m sure you’re tired of me singing the praises of the Mystic Monk Coffee (click the ad in the right sidebar) but we just received a shipment of our favorites and it included a sample of the Dark Roast blend, which I was wary about since “dark roast” in some brands will too often mean (as Ralph Wiggims would say): “it tastes like burning!” Happily, this is not so with the Mystic Monks – whatever the voodoo that they do... Read more
This is a remarkable talk by a remarkable scientist, Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, who recounts what she learned from her stroke (Via Hootsbuddy) Feed your right brain! Pray – meditate – contemplate! Other interesting links: Is “Manmade” Global Warming Alarmism Al Gore’s therapeutic solution to his 2000 loss? Can embracing the hard stuff carve out your heroism? If your religion has to threaten you with death to hold you, do you stay? Is the craft of journalism depressed or full... Read more
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