Confederate Yankee takes a some law professor to task – quite rightly, I think – for suggesting that Michelle Malkin doesn’t write her own blog. Yankee does a fine job blowing the theory out of the water, so I needn’t. But as a “long form” blogger who still manages to rack up the number of daily posts, I’m simply wondering if the professor has any idea how addictive the whole form is, and how easy it is to hammer out... Read more
Don’t sweat 40, Lorie. 45, that’s another story. That’s only 5 years away from 50! Why do I still feel about 33? Mary did not say how old she is!. Also, California Conservative is celebrating a first Blogoversary! Congrats! Hey, it’s snowling like all get-out over here! :-) Sticking, too! Read more
Baseball season is begun! In tribute to this fine game, allow me to reprint a post from ‘way back! Whaddya mean, you don’t know who Babe Herman is? My son Buster is down with a cold (this is what you get when you want to walk a girl home from school in the pouring, freezing cold rain, instead of calling your mother for a ride!) and he is watching Pride of the Yankees. Buster loves old movies, so he’s not... Read more
I’ll be doing some more gushing next month, when Elder Brother has his junior recital, too, so please excuse the excess of motherly excitation, but Buster performed Stradella’s “Pieta Signore” this weekend for the judges and – for the third year in a row – received a score of 100%, with some really great remarks on the part of the adjudicator. As I wrote during last year’s gush: in NY, a state that is very competitive musically, with so many... Read more
The US Capital was evacuated briefly due to a power outage. Boy, folks are sure skittish over a threat that they say Bush has exaggerated – criminally exaggerated, even. Kind of reminds me of how, after 9/11, Hollywood wanted to have its Emmy awards at a military base…because – of course – the terrorists would be targeting our most beautiful and talented people. But really…the best way to deal with the threat of terrorism is…well, anything but what Bush has... Read more
Over the past few weeks I have had lots of emails from people who are grieving and dealing with the loss of a parent or a sibling, and in one case, a spouse. I remembered this story and shared it with someone, and then thought it might be worth posting, too. I have a good friend of over 20 years, who recently lost her mother. A few weeks after the funeral, her brother was driving home and “talking” to her... Read more
The American Death Toll in Iraq has hit a two year low. I know, you saw it in all the headlines. David Byrne, in the Chicago Tribune is taking the media to task on its Iraq coverage: Those of us who haven’t been in a war zone criticize the work of war correspondents at our own peril. Yet, for all the assertions that little or no good news is to be found in Iraq, it is simple to find some... Read more
I’m taking this story with a grain of salt, and I’d advise everyone else to, also, given that there is only one source and I don’t know how good that source is. “Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,” Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward’s University on Friday. Not content with their servings thanks to abortion and euthanasia, the Deatheaters are looking up from their feast and demanding more, more, more. How... Read more
***This post will be updated with new links and stories as I find them, keep scrolling down*** CNS file Photo by Arturo Mari A year after the death of John Paul II and the elevation of Benedict XVI, the always terrific John Allen has an intelligent and well-written look at the last year. It’s long, it’s great, it covers a lot. One to print out and read with your Sunday cawfee. But I’ll give you this little teaser: John Paul... Read more
After Mass this evening Buster and I headed out for a quick hamburger and somehow the discussion came up about how the Holy Eucharist is sometimes accepted at Mass by someone only to remain unconsumed and spirited out of the church for use in various – always nefarious – ways. “How exactly,” Buster asked me. “I’ve read that the Eucharist has been stolen for use in black masses — but what do they do with it, actually?” I don’t like... Read more
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