Although I have tried for the last year or so to ignore as much of it as I could, I have already had a bellyfull of the 2008 presidential campaigns. This season is too long and its very length encourages the sort of picayune weirdness we have seen thus far, like the embarrassing accusations about kindergarten essays and wild stories about flying into danger zones with Sheryl Crowe on the left, and the mortifying “find the real Christian” hijinks on... Read more
In case you missed it…all we keep hearing from the press and the Democrats is that America is “despised” around the world… I don’t know which world they mean, unless it’s the Castro/Chavez world. Eastern Europe loves us. Germany is a great pal and France and England are fighting over which is our BFF. Mrs. Clinton can drone all she likes about how “she” needs to be elected to “restore America’s standing” in the world. But we seem to be... Read more
Lucianne highlights this video at her home page, and I think it’s a pretty interesting one, for several reasons, first because the woman sitting next to Matt Lauer (I don’t watch the show – who is that?) is all but wearing a “Vote for Hillary” button on her breast – there is a most unseemly gushing going on there that sets off all my antennae and makes me want to buy a pair of waders. The video is interesting, secondly,... Read more
Okay, I’m stumped. [1/18/08] Turned off wpban and wpbackup plugins, maybe that’ll do it. (Didn’t work.) IGNORE THIS POST – IT WILL BE DELETED! Pinging this post. Why not ping this one here, too. UPDATE 1/31/08: Bad Behaviour plugin messed up the pings; version 2.0.13 fixes it. Yay! Testing… Read more
I don’t know if I’d call it that, but it’s pretty darned remarkable. New-agey, but remarkable. Read more
Ummmm….I was moving too fast today and deleted my spam before actually looking through it for waylaid comments. So if you commented recently, and haven’t seen it released from moderation, well…it might be gone. Sorry. Sometimes the fingers fly and the mouse clicks even though the brain has wandered away to look at a pretty kitty. Meanwhile, enjoy these musings on a priest’s first Latin Mass, and the direction of Catholic music. Read more
Gerald at Closed Cafeteria links to a fascinating read in America Magazine, as a priest, Fr. Michael Kerper, relates his insights and feelings upon performing his first Traditional Latin Mass. Enormously interesting, and humbling stuff: …As I studied the Latin texts and intricate rituals I had never noticed as a boy, I discovered that the old rite’s priestly spirituality and theology were exactly the opposite of what I had expected. Whereas I had looked for the “high priest/king of the... Read more
Via Instapundit, this fascinating story that to me simply emphasizes all we do not know, and what an illusion is life: Dark energy, goes the thinking, is a result of the Big Bang and is accelerating the universe’s expansion. If so, the universe is not in a nice, stable zero-vacuum state but simply another “false vacuum” state that may abruptly decay again – and with cataclysmic consequences. The energy shift from the decay would destroy everything in the universe, “wiping... Read more
A few months ago, the Crisis Magazine abandoned dead trees and began publishing exclusively online. When they did that, they also put together a blog forum called InsideCatholic, along the lines of NRO’s The Corner, and they seem to be chugging merrily along. Now, America Magazine, the Catholic weekly published by American Jesuits has today launched their MagBlog, called “In All Things”. Editor Fr. James Martin, SJ, whose outstanding book My Life With the Saints was often extolled on this... Read more
I’m no fan of Maddy Albright’s, but I think she’s got every right to wonder how Hillary Clinton has the bald audacity – some might call it the unmitigated gall – to suggest that during her husband’s presidency – she, Mrs. Clinton – was “face of the Administration on foreign affairs,” Mrs. Clinton didn’t actually say that, not at first; one of her operatives, former Governor Tom Vilsack introduced the notion, apparently as a means to shore up Mrs. Clinton’s... Read more
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