Jonah to Hitchens to Betsy, a 4th Round-up

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Freedom of Speech by Norman Rockwell, The Four Freedoms On July 4th we celebrate freedom. So why am I so depressed to read this, by Gary Larsen? Editorial page editors at the McClatchy Co.-owned Minneapolis Star-Tribune removed king-sized hunks of syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg’s recent column about New York Times, et al. revealing national secrets and compromising national security, during the war on terror. Seems the Star-Tribune didn’t like Goldberg’s musings, so they cut them. (Probably a space thing, right?... Read more

Anchoress identifies source of world’s problems

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Against all sense, and my own better judgment, I today took a trip to the local Costco in order to buy hamburgers, chicken legs and marinade in the mass quantities needed in order to entertain guests on the Fourth of July. It was there, in the teeming, steaming rotisserie chicken section of the store that my senses became heightened and my consciousness got raised. I had an epiphany. The problem with the whole world, and everything in it, is fruit.... Read more

Would Keller want his home & security blabbed about?

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

The usual suspects on the left are scornfully looking down their noses at the usual suspects on the right, because folks on the right are incensed by this NY Times story which gives not only locations of homes owned by the VP and SecDef, but includes helpful little nuggets like, “the birdhouse has a camera in it…” (So, you know…if you’re going to go try something over there, bring your spraypaint…) The right is being called paranoid by the sophisticated... Read more

USA Today pulls by on the spy story…

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

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So, lemme get this straight. They make a claim…they wait a couple weeks, for the narrative to become entrenched…then they pull back on it late of the Friday Afternoon of a long holiday weekend, when no one is paying attention. Yeppers, that’s our modern Fourth Estate, doing their best work. Who will guard the guardians, indeed. Read more

New to the blogroll

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I rarely mention my blogroll, but let me encourage you, during this holiday weekend, to take a look at it and perhaps visit some sites with which you are not familiar. I’ve added a few new sites to it over the past few days, specifically Cobb, Big Lizards, Sister Toldjah (whom I thought I already had on board!) and John-o-pedia. I haven’t removed any in a while, but I may pull a few soon, not because I have differences with... Read more

Maureen Dowd loves bloggers!

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Oh, I knew she’d come around, sooner or later! Barcepundit translates a bit from a Dowd interview. Dowd says: It’s a very healthy situation: blogs lead me to try to be better every day. H/T Instapundit.com. It’s too bad the Times has her hidden in pay-per-viewland and I never read her any more, but in honor of Maureenie’s blog-love, here are links to some of my Dowd-related posts! Maureen Dowd Wrote the Wrong Book Maureen Dowd Needs to Consider Her... Read more

A Mother-Hung Nation? Meyer, again.

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Yesterday, in this piece on Hamlet and Harry Potter, I wrote this: Here is the interesting question…when a life has been lived with a sense of deep mission – as in either Hamlet’s or Harry’s case – and that mission has been fulfilled, what is the purpose of the life, thereafter? […] Perhaps this is why monarchs, old generals, popes, entrepreneurs, mother-hung rock stars and CBS newsmen can never willingly retire and live out their days. Without their sense of... Read more

Swiss Guys and udders…

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Gulp. In what I think might be an answer to my Bryn in a Loincloth post, which I know she felt teased her most cruelly, Fausta has posted this commercial about Swiss guys who are not obsessed with soccer. The dimpled guy climbing the rock. I claim! I got dibs! The rest of you back off, now! Read more

Hamlet, Harry Potter and the thrust of narrative

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:37 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Dr. Sanity is pleading, say it ain’t so, Jo and hoping that J.K. Rowling was being evasive when she suggested that Harry Potter may die in Book 7. Writes Sanity: Of course there is always a price that the hero must pay to vanquish evil. But if the price is his own death, then what kind of hope or chance is there for the rest of us who are trying to stand up to the darkness? The only way such... Read more

Bryn in a loincloth

Last updated on: March 17, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Photos by Clive Barda There – I’m posting this for the edification of all of you (all male, come to think of it) complainers who don’t like it (scroll down) when I post about my deep and abiding and yes, I’ll say it, sick love for The Terfel. That’s my lovely giant Bryn as Sir John Falstaff, who has just climbed out of the Thames (into which he had been ignominiously tossed from a laundry basket) and endured a brief... Read more