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.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The problem with my meme collections is that it’s getting increasingly hard to create a new, enticing headline. It’s always just…craziness.
Continue readingOn 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’
Continue readingToday 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
Continue readingI’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!!
Continue readingMy 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.
Continue readingEvery 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.
Continue readingSeeming 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.)
Continue readingThis 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
Continue readingI 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
Continue readingI bought a new gun a few days ago, a Springfield Armory XD Tactical 5″ ,45 ACP. It is the same size as — but an improvement upon — the iconic U.S. Military M1911 that I used to fire in the service and that served as the U.S. Army sidearm
Continue readingI’m still having problems getting my site to run, whether back-end stuff that makes it impossible for me to post or front-end stuff that makes it impossible for you to read anything. I’ve once again disabled all plugins, which may help. If that doesn’t work, then the problem is with
Continue readingMy site has been bedeviling me for weeks now, so I set up a CloudFlare defense against a Denial of Service attack. If you’re reading this, maybe it worked. First, I think the US Freedom Convoy is making a mistake. The Democrats are loving the thought of them coming to
Continue readingIn no particular order, here are my thoughts about what’s happening in Ukraine — and I am all over the board but mostly against it. I do not believe in the Wilson Doctrine (i.e., that it’s America’s job to make the world safe for democracy). Instead, I believe in the
Continue readingThis is a mish-mash, hodge-podge, portmanteau of a post, throwing together a whole lot of things. I’m sorry for the prolonged silence here. December is family month which, now that my children are grown, is quite lovely. My daughter and niece, along with their respective boyfriends arrived last week, and
Continue readingAs some of you may have noticed, my blog is loading very, very, very slowly, or not loading at all. It’s even worse at the back end, which isn’t working about 50% of the time. I’m talking to a tech now to try to resolve the problem. If you can
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