2017-03-17T21:25:11+00:00

Amy Welborn directs us to this trailer of the great documentary, Into the Great Silence, a look at La Grande Chartreuse, the great motherhouse of the Carthusian order – the most world-renouncing and, some would say, severe of monastic orders within the Roman Catholic Church. The three hour, mostly silent film has taken much of Europe by storm, but there is no word yet on when we might see it here in the US. I can’t wait. The trailer is... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:12+00:00

One of the blogosphere’s most observant writers, Alexandra of All Things Beautiful has been watching the ongoing “Cartoon War” and she’s wondering about how things like End-Times scenaria, the Christian Right and Israel are part-and-parcel of the broader scheme of things. She wants to get a discussion going over at her place and writes: I am particularly interested to know what impact in your opinion, if any, contemporary dispensational thinking might have on foreign policies concerning the Middle East at... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:13+00:00

From my sickbed, I have been reading Theodore Darlrymple’s latest exquisite book of essays, Our Culture, What’s Left of It, and I highly recommend it. It is no exaggeration to call him the Orwell of the 21st century. I’m halfway through, and each essay is more impressive than the last. No one is writing O Tempora, O Mores better than he. Which is why I am also linking you to this superb essay from Cato Unbound. You will thank me... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:16+00:00

Kim and Jeff will be celebrating their one-year-together-on-the-blog anniversary on February 11, and to celebrate they’ve moved to their own domain. Make a note in your blogroll, or if you have never read the Musing Minds, this is a good time to check them out. Two very bright people and sometimes it’s refreshing to get the guy/gal perspective on things! Right now they have some good advice for your cell phone. Congrats, guys, and good luck! Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:21+00:00

Two very clever lists – one from Shrinkrapped, in which the good doctor tries to diagnose what is ailing so many of us these days….(H/T Maxed Out Mama. the other from the nose on your face, which looks at how to tell if your religion is maybe not so peaceful. I’m sure some will find it offensive – all I know is, it’s the first thing to make me laugh in days – #9 and #2 did, anyway. So, maybe... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:24+00:00

Sorry. I know it’s a big news cycle, with the cartoons and all. Hate to miss it but I’m down with a bad bug. Learning to love green tea, etc. Buster says my being sick is not surprising – he blames it on the week of waking and mourning, etc…he’s probably right. I’m certainly not made of the strong stuff, anymore…kiss a few people and I’m sure to catch something. Hopefully I’ll be back to blogging later tomorrow. Meanwhile, let’s... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:27+00:00

All of Jay Nordlingers Davos pieces are worth reading, but I particularly liked this one for the picture it gives of Bill Clinton and John McCain. You really must read it. While you’re reading it, you can remember back to this story about Hillary and McCain meeting up with Bill in Iceland. Somewhere in my hard drive I have a piece from Aftenposten about McCain and Hillary taking a tour of Iceland ‘way back in 2000. They’re pretty chummy in... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:28+00:00

Do it now. A very good column, with a pithy look at the state and behavior of the Democrat party, the SOTU address, (“There was only one unforgettable moment, and that was in a cutaway shot, of Hillary Clinton, who simply must do something about her face…”), the liberal sin of remembering 9/11 and the sad death of Wendy Wasserstein. She brings it all together into one remarkable, wonderful whole. And even gets in a lick at Frank Rich, too. Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:32+00:00

According to this test which tells what character in Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters you would most like to be, I am Aunt Dahlia, scheming editor of Milady’s Boudoir, to which young pie-faced Bertie Wooster once contributed an article on “What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing.” Always into her rich, socialist-hating husband’s ribs for money to sign up authors such as Pomona Grindel for dubious serial fiction. Partial to brandy and “good old blackmail…” She has been know to... Read more

2017-03-17T21:25:37+00:00

Betsy Newmark related here that her 10 and 12th grade AP Gov’t classes noticed when the Democrats sat on their hands and when they stood during the SOTU. Mostly, the kids are struck by the theatrics of the event. They loved talking about the reaction shots of the Congressmen and women. They were very amused by the Democrats applauding themselves for stopping Bush’s Social Security reform. They think it’s hilarious that the Democrats wouldn’t applaud some of the lines that... Read more

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