The Epitome of Nincompoopery

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Well, Barbara Boxer, (D-California) – the dumbest woman in the U.S. Senate, after Patty Murray – has gone and done it, she’s signed on to Rep. John Conyers’ (D-Michigan) nonsense objecting to…well, just objecting to the fact that the Democrats lost the Presidential Election, again. Oh, the official line is that Conyers and Boxer are “concerned” about “voting irregularities.” In the state of Ohio, which went for Bush by over 100,000 votes. They have no “concerns” about “voting irregularities” in... Read more

The NY Times Cannot be Trusted with Numbers

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Or, apparently, with simple things like DATES. Check this out, it’s really deplorable: Tigerhawk takes a minute to actually look at the analysis of the post-election stock market surge and notes that through selectivity, the Times manages to underplay the staggering rise in the DJIA…that its growth is actually 47% higher than the Times claims. 47%! Oh…and, did you know that Harry Truman was elected president in 1944 and Teddy Roosevelt was elected in 1900? Really! Whaddya mean, I’m wrong,... Read more

Rathergate report still not released

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

This is becoming a little bit like the old SNL line, “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” The CBS internal report regarding the fake – no, not forged, but FAKE – ANG “memoes” with which poor old Dan Rather was hoping to completely destroy Presidnt Bush’s re-election campaign, is STILL unreleased. This was the report that was going to be released “sooner, rather than later.” Glad I didn’t hold my breath. Anyway, Tom Shales, over at the Washington Post gets... Read more

It starts not with a “give me,” but with a “please, take.”

Last updated on: March 16, 2017 at 5:10 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

A very dear friend – a true “little brother in Christ” for he is a year younger than me! – is in his first year of Diaconate studies, on a journey to be ordained a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church. It has been for him a journey of immense joy and hard work, fear, doubt and wonder, and he seems ever-humbled as he progresses. I am in awe of him.So I was a little perturbed when he recently shared... Read more

Mostly Missing Christmas

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

The natural after-effect of a crash and burn is often illness, and my meltdown of several days ago has resulted in wheezing, a horrendous cough that suggests nothing so much as lungs being forced into an upward trajectory for deliverance on an innocent world. I should have seen this coming; in Traditional Chinese Medicine the health of the lungs can be affected by the emotion of sadness, and of course we have been in much sadness, lately. So, I gasped... Read more

Anchoress Crashes and Burns. Film at 11:00.

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

So, as sometimes happens in life, everything came to a head yesterday afternoon. After a so-so day at work, during which I made arrangements with my pediatrician to get a second cardiologist opinion on a situation with Buster (my brother is not long for this world, and my 15 year old is routinely clutching at his chest and turning purple – can we say stress overload?) I took a look at my schedule for the day. It included many errand-y,... Read more

Because I cannot share these with my brother,

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I’ll share my normally top-secret-never-share-it-with-anyone recipes with you folks.My brother is unaccountably lingering, but sleeping more and more. He went from chopped food to puree’d food to basically liquids, but he is too sleepy to take much in. When we visit him now, the visits are very quiet. Most times, he doesn’t wake up at all, and the three or four hours we spend at his bedside are spent reading to him, or watching television, or chatting with nurses. Last... Read more

My Vagina and Me: Politically Incorrect and Lovin’ it!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

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Every year, in preparation for Valentine’s Day (V-day, or Vagina Day in politically correct, whack-a-doo feminist enclaves) various college campuses, community centers and umm, Unitarian churches prepare to use the occasion not to celebrate an early Christian Martyr, but to suggest that every woman is a martyr of sorts, a lone upholder of vaginal integrity, thrown into a tarpit of bubbling male lust and violence. Right on schedule, comes this story re the University of Oregon, which is undergoing some... Read more

Christmas and the Holy Name.

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

It seems some Christians are feeling full of beans and vinegar, this Christmas, and they’re takin’ it to the business streets and basically saying, “Pony up wit’ da “Merry Christmases”, or we’re shoppin’ at the Wal-Mart!” (Hattip to Polipundit. Now, I’ve mentioned that we have a little bit of this brewing in our own household as younger son Buster takes a stand. But I do think this whole issue of hotheaded insistance on saying the words “Merry Christmas” needs some... Read more

Slouching Toward Bethlehem

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 8:49 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?WB Yeats, The Second Coming Polly Toynbee’s mother died three weeks ago. Ms. Toynbee has written of it here, while in the throes of exquisite pain and some very plain anger: My mother died three weeks ago, less than a year after a diagnosis of terminal cancer. From the start she faced its inexorable course with rational calm, unafraid of dying but determined to avoid... Read more