Well, I have to say, this is a very neat thing, indeed. I come home from the long weekend away, to return to two splendid and surprising pieces of news, that The Anchoress was tied for 11th place in John Hawkin’s 4th Annual War-Blogger Awards, in the category of Best Overall Blog. Not only am I in great company, (Hugh Hewitt, Red State and Tim Blair, fer goodness sake!) but I happily escaped being voted into the “Most Annoying” category…although... Read more
My hubby and I are taking our first weekend away together in almost 8 years. Nice little B&B upstate, Buster’s concert on Sunday. We expect to do exactly nothing. Sleep. Read. Ahem. Sleep some more. We’re really looking forward to it and hopefully will come back refreshed. In the meantime, a few links I’ve been meaning to give you all day or week, as the case may be: Confederate Yankee catches CNN being dumb again. They’re so anxious to do... Read more
Who sounds like a very remarkable kid. Who has remarkable parents. Read more
A while back, while reading at Worship Naked I spied a link to Frank Warren’s blog, Post Secret and was immediately fascinated by the site and its ever-changing contents. Thinking to start a community art project, Warren invited people to send anonymous postcards sharing a secret they might be otherwise too afraid or ashamed or embarrassed to admit, and he encouraged creativity. The site became a wonder – funny, sad, touching, infuriating, gross and chilling – it was full of... Read more
Or something – they are certainly not covering themselves with glory. They’re leaking at all costs in what increasingly appears to be an effort to take down the president, even if it hurts their own efforts: The twin leaks to the Times and the Post have severely impaired the agency’s ability to carry out renditions, transport prisoners, and maintain secret detention facilities. It is striking that top-level CIA officials are evidently willing to do serious damage to their own agency’s... Read more
John Hawkins has a good list. Read more
Lyle says he hasn’t heard anything about folks having to tiptoe around the world “Christmas” so for him, I post this piece by Jonah Goldberg, on keeping the “holy” out of Christmas. A good piece. Some are fighting back by sending Christmas cards to the ACLU. If anyone has a link to other “Christmas controversies” you can put them in the comments section for Lyle, okay? Please use an html to link, if you can! :-) Also, for Lyle: The... Read more
FYI, Seems there is a slight hitch in the proceedings and finalists are not yet announced. Voting will not begin until Sunday, December 4. Read more
Tom Shales reviews two upcoming TV flicks on the life of Pope John Paul the Great, and the reviews are well worth reading. The CBS biopic sounds like a real winner – I’m looking forward to it, particularly because the writers and director seem to have gotten the key message of John Paul’s priesthood and pontificate, not only was he all about exhorting us to courage (“Do not be afraid!”) but he was all about reminding us of who we... Read more
But after reading this open letter to him in which he is given the very good advice NOT to hire Katie Couric for the CBS Evening News, I just had to comment: Yes, Couric has winning appeal – mostly in the form of a bubbly charm — and she would most likely attract a boatload of new viewers to your network. … …I would like to suggest another approach, a much CHEAPER route than Couric to fill the job (Do... Read more
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