Yes! Yes, YES! I KNOW I said I was staying off the blog today – and I’ve been pretty good, all things considered. As I explained to Tattling Bernard it’s the email that keeps drawing me back…I’m reading and the thought pops into my head: “I wonder if I have email!” I’m vacuuming and in the whirr of the machine I hear, “wwwwwhhhhheeeeres the email?” I’m taking chicken out of the freezer, to defrost and its parchment color reminds me... Read more
When I blow it, I know it! Yes, I am taking the day off, but not until I correct my own post from yesterday where I had, it is now clear, quite the wrong impression about something. I wrote: I guess that “the paper of record” is going to get away with printing not a word – not a single word – concerning the misuse of public funds by Air America Radio, about whom they have written some 67 gushing... Read more
Yes, I know I said I was taking a break – and I am, I AM – but this came thru the email and I had to post it. Chris Muir, the brilliant artist who puts together the Day by Day Cartoon has a sister, Cathy, who is currently being treated at the American Cancer Ablation Center. He’s not looking for money – he is looking for clicks, clicks and more clicks to help raise the Center’s Yahoo rating and... Read more
The blogosphere is too loud. The mainstream media, both in print and on the air – too loud. The radio is too loud. The war of words is too loud. The downshouting and incivility and name-calling; too loud. Some silence is in order. We will get nowhere, nowhere at all, as human beings or as a nation, if we do not find a way to pull back, breathe and quiet down, if we do not spend some time simply thinking,... Read more
This is a huge, huge story, and I’ve only seen it, so far at Sigmund Carl and Alfred who cover it and talk about it extensively. Go. Read. Good. Read more
An unfortunately sloppy and poorly put-together post, edited for clarity: I dunno…it feels to me like the NY Times is going to win this round in the ongoing battle by bloggers to get the Mainstream Media to grow the hell up and re-embrace their craft. I guess that “the paper of record” is going to get away with printing not a word – not a single word – concerning the misuse of public funds by Air America Radio, about whom... Read more
As ever, when he is not ranting about religion, about which he simply…well…let’s generously say he’s got some issues, (never mind – I love Hitch!) there is no one brighter or more right-on than Christopher Hitchens, and today he wonders…does the left realllllly want us to lose in Iraq? Yes, they want to see Bush defeated any way and every way, but Hitchens asks: Do they suppose that a defeat in Iraq would be a defeat only for the Bush... Read more
This is a lovely post from a man who is, with his whole family, crossing the Tiber to Rome. I don’t normally post to such links, because I don’t feel my job here is to “convert” any Christian to Roman Catholicism, but the heartfelt spirit behind these words…well, it’s just beautiful to read. As always, an encounter with a convert brings me to renewed appreciation of the treasures of the Church, and makes me grateful. If I ever told you... Read more
How come we’re just hearing about this now? How come none of this is mentioned in the report by the 9/11 commission? More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a Republican member of Congress. In the summer of 2000, the military... Read more
There are lots of good reads in this week’s Cotillion round up, but this one is my favorite. I’m still new to all of this, myself. And while I’ve come to a greater understanding and appreciation of Christianity, I still have a few doubts and questions of my own that keep me from feeling completely at ease with it. But seeing Zane so proudly cradling his “Bible” in his arms touched my heart beyond belief. And so it was that,... Read more
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