Granted, Rita is not a great a storm as Katrina. However, it will be very interesting to watch what Texas does in the face of the storm. How it evacuates, how it moves its people, how it advises and informs its people, how it uses in-place precedents and protocols to move things up a chain of command…from the most local of leadership, through the cities and towns and up to the Governor’s office and beyond. If the MSM had wished... Read more
From time-to-time you’ll move through your blogroll and hit on a blogger who is literally firing on all cylinders, and one post after the next is just a joy to read. Ann Althouse seems to be having such a day. She’s put up some photographs she took yesterday. The first, I totally love. But then, moving past the photos, she’s got one good post after another. I especially liked this typically thoughtful rumination on kidsbeer and its effect on children,... Read more
designed by Stacy Tabb Masterful is the only world for it – the blogger-coordinated revelation of gobs and gobs of Government Pork which might be cut-worthy-for-Katrina-rebuilding! I am really proud to see the blogs take the lead in this with TTLB’s amazing PORKBUSTERS page. This is one of those ideas that seemed to grow spontaneously between blogs – its germ seems to have been a response to Glenn Reynolds initial gathering of “pork” information and it has grown into something... Read more
The blogosphere and the folks in the press are all of a doo-dah because Bill Clinton “leveled sharp criticism” at President Bush; because Clinton “launched a withering attack” on his successor (something his predecessor, it must be said, refused to do when Clinton was in office, and even after). Former President Bill Clinton “lambasted” President George W. Bush, and some in the press would have you believe this is something he has never done before. Actually, President Clinton has tiptoed... Read more
to send me more memes or tags. However, Don Singleton tagged me and I had promised to complete it for him – then Katrina happened and, you know…I can only concentrate on one thing at a time. Since I’ve been under the weather this weekend, I thought doing the meme would be a good way to sort of kickstart myself back into blogging…but no, the energy is not there, yet. But here it is! Ten Years Ago: My boys were... Read more
A review copy of Amy Welborn’s A Catholic Woman’s Book of Days (Scroll down the sidebar and see in in my Bookshelf). It looks pretty good. I’ve always liked the cover art. I’ll read it over the weekend and the you what I think! :-) Read more
Sorry ’bout that. Buster relapsed and I am dealing with a rather ferocious and unexpected onset of fatigue as well. Had/have no head for reading or writing today. Perhaps tomorrow will be better. Blessings to all! A Read more
Bill Clinton purports to be a Christian…he’s a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, anyway…so it seems to me he should be appalled to see these recurring – and really, SICK – headlines constantly referring to him as “savior.” Bill Clinton as World Savior. Bill Clinton, Savior of the World. But perhaps “savior” is precisely the word Clinton likes. Perhaps these two reporters didn’t get the memo: Bill Clinton’s Plan for World Domination doesn’t sound anywhere as optimistic as his... Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow does not want to live in America. Seems to me one of those occasions where one simply sighs, throws up ones hands to heaven and tries to forget the pain… Meanwhile, thanks to those who do more than sit around making criticism, Gateway Pundit is able to post some really EXCELLENT news from Iraq. Iraqi citizens doing their part and an estimation on the decimation of Al Qaeda. Read the whole thing! Read more
We rarely go to movies in our house – or, to be more exact, I rarely go to movies – mostly because I find most films currently offered to be overly-cgi’d or too bombastic, or intelligence- insulting…and because when I don’t like a film, I go to sleep. My husband got tired of paying good money for me to doze off. Last Friday, though, we went to see The Exoricism of Emily Rose and I stayed awake! It is an... Read more
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