Bookworm Beat 1/17/25: the California is still burnin’ meme edition
Three more days until sane government returns to America, but it’ll take a lot longer than three days to undo the damage displayed in these memes.
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Bookworm Beat 1/10/25: the California burnin’ meme edition
Ten days until Trump is back in the White House and — God willing — America and the world become much safer and stronger.
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Bookworm Beat 11/15/24: The MEGA MAGA TRUMP VICTORY meme edition
This could also be called the schadenfreude meme edition, because a lot of it is taken up with mocking leftists as they writhe in agony over the election.
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James Buckley’s 2006 Speech on Religion and our Government
The left has been warring on Judaism and Christianity since socialism and the terrorist police state were born in the French Revolution. America took the opposite tack in the late 18th century, embracing the Western religious tradition undergirding the Enlightenment. We built our government on those traditions and became a
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Bookworm Beat 11/17/23: A time of blessed clarity illustrated edition
Yes, times are bad, but Americans are finally seeing the hideous reality behind the left’s carefully constructed patina of virtue.
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The benefits of a young, new doctor
After several years in the wilderness, I finally found a doctor who may have a solution to some vexing (although totally non-fatal) problems.
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Bookworm Beat 4/17/23: The madder than mad world
The problem with my meme collections is that it’s getting increasingly hard to create a new, enticing headline. It’s always just…craziness.
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On the Fifth Day of Christmas, The Feast of Thomas a’ Becket
On the 5th Day of Christmas Feast of St. Thomas a’ Becket, a memorial One of the overarching issues of the Medieval world was where the authority of the Papacy ended and the authority of kings began. It was a dispute that that led to the martyrdom of Thomas a’
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Our Nation is Forged At Trenton
Today marks the single most important battle in our nation’s history, George Washington’s decisive victory over the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, 1776 saved the American Revolution from certain failure. General It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Continental Army’s stunning victory this day
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The Porcupine Mountains in Michigan
I’m visiting the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan. Over the past 24 hours, I’ve seen snow, rain, and sun. The temperature never got above 37 degrees. It’s gorgeous!!
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The illustrated edition will be delayed
My COVID rash is continuing to bedevil me. I’m underslept and everything I do seems to take twice as long. I’ll try to get the illustrated edition up tomorrow or on Sunday. For now, though, I’m getting by doing the bare minimum of whatever it is I need to do.
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Protecting good people from misguided money-seeking victims
Every person deserves a chance to defend himself against claims of moral wrongdoing, a right that applies to a priest as well as to a layman.
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Disney’s corporate madness reflects a huge class divide in America
Seeming disparate threads, including the madness at Disney, when bound together, reveal that America is experiencing a most peculiar class struggle. (This post looks long but it isn’t as long as it looks because it has a lot of Twitter material that uses up a great deal of vertical space.)
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The American boat is slowly sinking
This is a guest post by Nodrog: Ketanji /kɛtənd͡ʒi/ (noun) informal – “the only person left after the cream has left the barrel“ If I were innocent but wanted for “questioning” in America, I would see that the Supreme Court is becoming peopled with those who are not at the level of
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Slowly restoring the website
I finally had a chat with a tech who knew what was wrong with my website and told me how to fix it. Yesterday, I completely disabled all plugins (including Disqus comments) as well as taking away my lovely theme. The website started working again as it should. Over the
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