I haven’t actually read any Julian in a few years, but Mr. Wong, thinking about the name of this site, recalls one of her “showings”. He showed me something small, no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, and I perceived that it was as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought: What can this be? And I was given this general answer: It is everything which is made. He said, “If I... Read more
Had two emails within the last two days that make me wonder if I have, perhaps…been a little too pointed, shall we say…in some of my, um…analyses? One writer said that Tracey Allen’s quote in the Header should read: “READING THE ANCHORESS…IS LIKE A PERSONAL FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION – CRACKLING, EXHILARATING AND SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS…careful you don’t put your eye out…” Another gent, inviting me to stop by his website for his numerous posts about the Pope, added with a... Read more
We’ve been reading for a few days now about Susan Estrich’s latest meltdown and her loud, obnoxious efforts to curry favor with the LA Times by screaming at them. She says she speaks for many women. She writes a letter over the names of 50 of them and then threatens Michael Kinsley that if he doesn’t publish it, she’ll just have to walk it over to Drudge. When Kinsley rightly bristles at being strong-armed and, essentially, blackmailed, Estrich rants that... Read more
No…you’re not reading that wrong. And that’s not a headline from The Onion, either. Ms. Newmark at Betsy’s Page relates a story about Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C that really shouldn’t be too surprising, coming on the heels of that over-emoting-shrinking-violet, Professor Nancy Hopkins from MIT – you remember her, the babe who swooned because Harvard President Lawrence Summers (while clearly saying he wanted his hypothesis to be proved wrong) posed an academic question about the differences in ability that exists... Read more
It’s curious to find my first post today to be about health, since I have succumbed to some raggedy-assed virus of a sort. I haven’t exactly crashed and burned as in the past, but it’s been a logey and cruddy sort of day. But enough about me. Ann Althouse has an interesting post on a recent statement by the Vatican. Althouse herself, crediting the Vat with having a made a good point, says: Perhaps as an ethical matter, anyone contemplating... Read more
In a story where time is so pressing, this is encouraging news: The life of Terri Schindler-Schiavo will hinge on the outcome of two dramatic hearings scheduled to unfold Monday, Feb. 21 in the Florida courtroom of Sixth Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer. David Gibbs III of Seminole, Fl., attorney for Mary and Robert Schindler Sr., parents of the brain damaged woman, said Thursday that he will file a new motion Monday asking Greer to allow new medical tests... Read more
You know, the rule that says no matter what a left-leaning columnist is writing about, no matter how well or intelligently he or she is writing it, there must, at some point, be at least two paragraphs of gratuitous, or stupid, or conscience-clearing criticism of Republicans or conservatives, even if the columnist’s topic really has nothing to do with same. In Richard Cohen’s case, I’m thinking that his two paragraphs (in an otherwise important and straight-on column) are partly gratuitous... Read more
I give him credit. While he still serves a few left-over delusions (his line about Democrats not entertaining pessimism killed me. Most of the pessimists I know are Democrats!) this piece is quite a brave call for an end to the ceaseless boo-hooing, bellyaching, negativism, racial/gender/victim-group pandering and starry-eyed, downright goofy gushing toward the corrupt United Nations that is killing the Democratic party, and the social left. He’s suggesting that they advance their thinking 30 years, and finally admit that... Read more
We forget that sometimes. Often. I like to stop by Leo Wong’s place every day, because he has some wonderfully complex graphics that are helpful for centering – to slow the breathing and shut out distractions – to prepare the mind for prayer, or even sometimes to simply fall into that interior quietening which is perfect contemplation. You never know what you’ll find when you pop in there. Sometimes, you’ll find excerpts from George Bernard Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, or... Read more
It’s so perverse to see people on the left, who know damn well that this film is politically (and philosophically and morally) controversial, insist that the film “has no message, means nothing.” It’s as disingenuous as Chicago-born-and-raised Hillary Clinton putting on a Yankee cap and declaring “the fact is, I’ve always been a Yankee fan!” You know…she said it, so it must be true. And if your reason tells you something different, then your reasoning must be faulty, because…she SAID... Read more
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