Alexandra at All things Beautiful is posting the results of a UK poll naming the 10 Worst Britons in the last 1000 years, (Thomas Becket?) and that’s given her an idea – she wants bloggers to contribute their ideas on the worst Americans in the last 230 years. Siggy has commented on his nominees. He is predictably fearless, scathing and unstinting in his critique. I’m not sure I will be participating in this one – frankly, I want to kind... Read more
I know, I know…it feels like it’s over out there in the world. The stores are still decorated, but the music has switched back to the usual stuff. The radio has changed back. No more Rudolph, no more Frosty. But within the church year, things have only just started. We had our days of waiting, and now we have our feast…everyday our minds are drawn back to those first hours in a cave in Bethlehem, those first days and weeks... Read more
Our long meditation, our long waiting is almost over. Tomorrow’s Vespers will anticipate Christmas Day, and the Midnight Mass, but for today we are still in purple, waiting, and chomping a little at the bit, and comes now the loveliest of the readings (at least to me) and the most fervent antiphon: Reading: In the Lord’s eyes, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years are as a day. The Lord does not delay in keeping his... Read more
In the interest of good-neighborliness, this post has been removed by the administrator, who has learned several good lessons from it: 1) Do not post remnants of a conversation without permission from the other party 2) Be sensitive to the fact that, although you are definitely not playing the other party for laughs (rather, playing “New Yorkese” for laughs) what you write can be misconstrued in such a way as to hurt the other party’s feelings – which was never... Read more
We’re all so busy, so just some links I wanted to share – Jimmie Bise brings us a great story about remarkable choral master. You’ll love it, I promise. Jim also manages to note how cowardly congress is As Siggy notes, they speak in tongues Alicia Colon rightly notes that political leaders were MIA during NYC’s transit strike. Mike Bloomberg can’t run again for Mayor, but the rest of them, Schumer, Clinton, Spitzer and Pataki, were all too cowardly to... Read more
Newly liberate and mixing it up with their feminine genius. I blame Bush. “My name is Malali Joya from Farah Province. By the permission of the esteemed attendees, and by the name of God and the colored-shroud martyrs, I would like to speak for couple of minutes. My criticism on all my compatriots is that why are they allowing the legitimacy and legality of this Loya Jerga come under question with the presence of those felons who brought our country... Read more
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including sections 302 and 303 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (“Act”) (50 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.), as amended by Public Law 103- 359, and in order to provide for the authorization of physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes as set forth in the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) of the Act,... Read more
Got an email this morning from a lady wanting to know if I could recommend a book to her, something that she could give to a friend who has been in deep mourning – and beyond mourning, has tried suicide, herself – after the death of her 20 year old son. She has promised not to try to do away with herself again, but she’s clearly in trouble and needs some help. I’ve been wracking my brain, and cannot think... Read more
Gay Patriot is asking who you think she is – lots of great conservative women, there, but a few Cotillion gals are missing, and I think they ought to opine on that! :-) Read more
In fact, I’ve been dithering about it – wondering if I should, in fact, post something that is so overly-generous in its assessment of me. And ordinarily I would simply not post it, but it is so well done, it is SUCH a profound, insightful and beautiful piece on prayer, on what – on its most basic level – prayer is, and what it means to us human beings, that I have to link to it. Prayer certainly isn’t for... Read more
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