“It doesn’t matter if this painting is historically accurate! It offends my feminist and humanist sensibilities today and therefore it must be taken down and removed from our sight!” Selectwoman Sarah Peake spun her chair around near the end of the Nov. 14 meeting, gazed up at an oversized oil painting depicting the Pilgrims voting on the Mayflower Compact when they first landed in Provincetown, and declared that she wanted it removed. Mind you, it’s not that she didn’t like... Read more
Buster and hubby and I saw Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire over the past few days, and we were really appalled at how Albus Dumbledore was portrayed – there is simply no way Dumbledore would approach Harry in such a menacing manner, as he does after Harry’s name comes out of the goblet, and too often this Dumbledore seems to be holding his head in his hands, fretting – something Dumbledore never does in the books. I miss... Read more
It’s never too late – you can still put an Advent Wreath together and have it ready for the Second Sunday this weekend! (Remember, the rose colored candle is lit on the THIRD Sunday – symbolizing Joy and Refreshment!) If you got caught by surprise last Sunday and thought, “ah, well, Advent has begun and I didn’t get the candles…there is always next year,” I’m here to tell you, you needn’t feel cheated. My neighbor ran out and found three... Read more
Maybe the bravest blogger of all, certainly the hardest working one I can think of, the intrepid Michelle Malkin finds time (!) to sit for an interview with John Hawkins. She talks about her new book, Unhinged:Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, her blogging routine and more – it’s a good read, and I’m not just saying that because she very kindly mentions a certain girl blogger or two when the subject of blogs and sexism comes up! :-) Michelle also talks... Read more
I come back to see that not much has changed…that the NY Times, which several weeks ago seemed to be calling for either a coup or impeachment seems to have become so frustrated that neither has yet happened that yesterday’s entire paper seemed like one long gutteral scream of rage. The NY Sun responds to Frank Rich’s hopeless weekend piece. According to the press, the war is still going badly, although Mary Laney begs to differ. Actually, according to the... Read more
Actually, not even wounded, just pulling myself together (and also we have company this weekend). I hope everyone had a warm Thanksgiving with the chance to enjoy family and friends. I hope to be able to write something tonight and then get back to writing daily…thanks for bearing with me! If you have emailed me, please know that I have not really had a chance to do more than skim a few messages – again – I hope to be... Read more
If 200,000 people had gathered to call out President Bush, it would have been news all over the world – the pictures would have been everywhere – the story would have lived for days. Hell, this summer 2 to 3,000 gathered in Washington for a Bush hate-fest and it got all day coverage on C-span. But if 200,000 Arabs take to the streets to call out a chief terrorist it gets no coverage, it is not a story, and there... Read more
Apologies to all who emailed with pieces you wanted linking to, and to others who emailed just to drop a line, and to others who emailed to bust my chops…I was down for the count all weekend and am still not exactly ship shape. There looks to be several hundred emails for me to plow through – I am guessing very few of them will actually get responses. Sorry folks, sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug – right... Read more
UPDATE: Bumped to top! *** Scroll down for new posts *** Bumped to top for this update from Jason at Generation Why: Documents May Reveal Iraq had WMDs and Ties to Al-Qaida There is a project underway in Doha, Qatar where several intelligence analysts, together with several dozen translators, most of them from Jordan, are sifting through millions of pages of documents unearthed in Iraq after the toppling of the regime. Many of the documents from Doha had been entered... Read more
I’m reading a lot about the growing call for America to pull out of Iraq. There’s lots of ways to debate the war, and whether or not we ever should have entered Iraq. But the fact is, whether one thinks we should be there or not, we are there. We have deposed Saddam. We have liberated a people who are now trying to chisel out their freedom and democracy, while being threatened by brutes and bullies within their borders. They... Read more
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