Via Instapundit: Top 11 Things That Anti-War Protesters Would Have Said At the Normandy Invasion on D-Day (Had There Been Anti-War Protesters At Normandy 11. No blood for French Wine! 10. It’s been two and a half years since Pearl Harbor and they still haven’t brought Admiral Nagumo to justice 9. In 62 years, the date will be 6/6/6. A coincidence? I think not. 8. All this death and destruction is because the neo-cons are in the pocket of Israel... Read more
Specifically if the Times covered this week’s Yankees 13-5 Victory over the BoSox. Yankee batters lacked the proper body armor to face Boston pitchers as Jorge Posada would discover when he was hit with a pitch later, in the bottom of the third. It was a near-fatal blow that the trainer admitted could have been deadly if the pitch had been thrown faster and at his temple, and he had his helmet off. It’s delicious. Satire and parody only work... Read more
My L’il Bro Thom sent me this interesting piece in the WaPo about Sen. Sam Brownback with these observations: I kinda like this guy, he bears watching. He sounds kind of Deacon-y to me. Seems promising.” As you know, L’il Bro Thom is rather left of center, so I was a little surprised to see him liking Brownback, but then again, Thom is very faithful, so perhaps I should not be surprised. From the article: Everything has its season, and... Read more
A nice story about baseball and Americana, with no political hoohah at all. Written by the always terrific Jonathan Pitts of the Baltimore Sun – one of the most consistently great feature writers I’ve ever read. For many, Brooks Robinson’s most lasting achievement seems less the 16 Gold Gloves and two World Series titles he won as a player than the unshakable courtesy with which he won them. The O’s legend displayed a rock-solid decency that seemed, somehow, as quintessentially... Read more
:::Scroll down for update::: My brother Thom asked that question after reading this piece about Ann Coulter’s latest over-reach. She’s never been my cuppa, as I have written before. While she is whip-smart, I’ve never liked her because Coulter tends to overdo – she routinely loses sight of boundaries of common decency. She goes too far and discredits herself and the values she says she espouses. I must say, my skin crawled to read some of her statements. To me... Read more
CBS is going to be running a three-day series on Teenagers and Technology – I frankly feel that Buster’s generation came out of the womb hard-wired and ready for interaction with diodes and such – and they’re looking for interested parents who would be willing to participate by submitting questions and concerns to the shows panel of experts, as explained here. Through the use of multimedia, we will examine how teens are using technology and what that technology is doing... Read more
I believe this blog has been following the progress of Sr. Greta since her entrance to a Dominican monastery in New Jersey. Now, she is preparing to be recieved as a novice and clothed in the habit of that order. If she likes, she may choose a new name as part of her new life in God. There is precedent of course, for this in scripture – Abram became Abraham, Noe became Noah, Simon became Peter, etc. Yes, to set... Read more
Some of you have written to me expressing your hopes that I will re-consider what I have written about my eventual death and waking. You will be happy to know that my husband has decided the issue for me. He’s decided that since he can pretty much do what he wants once I’m dead, he’ll subject me to a ten day public wake and then launch me off the Great South Bay of Long Island, Viking style, with all of... Read more
This sounds pretty scary: After six hours in the ER, however, the FM insisted that she was OK and wanted to go home. Neither I nor the doctors could talk her into getting admitted, so home we went, with oxygen and a wheelchair, and an oxygenator when we arrived home. Once we got home, she once again collapsed when getting out of the car in the garage. I hosted her into a folding chair and called our son. The two... Read more
I just got called “impudent” in an email! What a great, underused word! I have not been called “impudent” since the grade school, when I insisted to Sr. Mary Gemma that the word “it” was a preposition. I may have called it a proposition, too! :-) Yes, I was impudent back then, and I deserved the standing-in-the-corner bit. But today? Impudent? Moi? As a famous radio guy would say, “I’m a harmless loveable little fuzzball…” Or something. I’m going to... Read more
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