Bookworm Beat 3/27/26: The topsy-turvy world meme edition
The overriding theme is that we’re living in a world Democrats are trying to destroy, and Donald Trump is trying to save.
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Bookworm Beat 07/18/2021 — the life in Biden’s America
The one good sign about the world devolving with such rapidity is that events provide a huge fund from which to draw when it comes to memes. UPDATE: I just looked at this post and saw that, rather than calling it “life in Biden’s America,” as I had intended, I
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Bernie the Red Part II: Honeymoon with Communism
Part II in a series asking just what Bernie the Red means when he says he wants to bring “Democratic Socialism” to America? Part I: Denmark, Sweden & “Democratic Socialism” is here. Some time ago, Reason.com did a retrospective on Bernie the Red’s embrace of hard-core, bloody communist regimes, from
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History, Holidays & Observances on January 3, the 10th Day of Christmas & the Battle of Princeton
10th Day of Christmas; Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, Battle of Princeton, Decian Persecutions, Martin Luther, Meji Restoration, Mussolini, March of Dimes, Apple Inc., Boko Haram, and more. Holidays and Observances on January 3 On the 10th Day of Christmas . . . Feast of the Holy Name,
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History, Holidays & Observances on December 6
A look at some of the history and holidays on December 6 Holidays & Observances on December 6 Feast of St Nicholas – Yes, Virginia, there is a St. Nickolaus . . . and his feast day is today. The Santa Claus we associate with Christmas is a melding of
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A look at some of the history and holidays on November 25 Holidays & Observances on November 25 Feast of Catherine of Alexandria, born a Princess in the 4th century, she was a scholar who converted to Christianity at age 14. She converted hundreds of others to the faith over
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — another movie I couldn’t watch
Nineteen minutes into the movie, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri spouted two anti-American lies within 15 seconds of each other. Who needs that? I very seldom can sit through the movies Hollywood has made of late. Indeed, I think the last movies that I fully enjoyed were Darkest Hour and Paddington 2.
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Fascinating new posts at WOW! Magazine
I just want to keep you all up-to-date about the great new posts (some of which are mine) that you can find today at WOW! Magazine, the new online magazine from the Watcher’s Council: The Bookworm Beat 9/6/16 — the “still coughing” edition and open thread School Attacks: Feeling Good
Continue readingMy theory about Obama’s limp wrist moment with Raoul Castro
I have to admit to finding fascinating that bizarre limp wrist Obama displayed when Raoul Castro attempted to lift his arm for a “We are the champions” photo op. It’s entirely possible that Obama thought it would be rude to yank his arm out of Raoul’s grasp, and did the
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 8-26-15 — the “gruesome GoPro” edition and open thread
The revolution will be televised — thoughts on the shooting in Virginia Back in 1969 or 1970, during the height of the 1960s era upheavals, Gil Scott-Heron wrote a poem/song claiming “the revolution will not be televised.” The lyrics implied that the media would be so anodyne that, while revolution
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 3-7-15 — “random thoughts on a Saturday morning” edition and open thread
This is so short I’ll eschew headings. It’s an effort to be a Thomas Sowell-esque grab bag of pertinent observations, although I’m handicapped by the fact that I lack both his wit and his erudition. For the past many months, my Progressive friends on Facebook have been completely silent about
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 12/22/14 — Sneaking away from my family edition, and Open Thread
This is my fifth attempt just today to write something for my blog. The family’s needs are comprehensive, to say the least. Since I have a small window of time here, let me get right to it: Best sentence of 2014 NRO’s Kevin Williamson wasn’t too much on my radar
Continue readingOn Cuba, the difference between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy
With Obama and the Democrats reveling in having handed Fidel Castro everything in exchange for nothing (except a man who is still a committed Marxist after five years in a communist prison), I got to thinking about Pope Francis’s apparently pivotal role in this whole thing. And that got me
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 12/17/14 — Hanging in by the skin of my teeth edition and Open Thread
I sometimes wonder if my family’s entered into a secret compact to keep me away from my computer. I’ve gone from having five hours or so to myself every day from Monday to Friday to having perhaps two hours to myself for the entire week. It’s hard to think sometimes.
Continue readingOpen Thread: Normalizing relations with Cuba
This is an Open Thread about Obama’s decision to normalize relations with Cuba. I’m woefully uninformed about the entire Cuba story, going back to Kennedy, so I don’t yet have an opinion and would very much like to hear from you. I know, of course, that Cuba is an oppressive
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