History, Holidays & Observances on December 1
Today: Advent Sunday, Lincoln & slavery, Stalin’s Great Purge, Rosa Parks, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III, David Ben Gurion, Christmas Music . . . AND MORE
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Bookworm Beat 6/5/19 — the silly stupid Leftists illustrated edition
I have categories for saving images. Two are “stupid Leftists” and “silly stuff.” Sometimes I can’t tell them apart. This post illustrates that fact.
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Here’s what’s trending at WOW! Magazine, home of the Watchers’ Council
Don’t forget that the Watchers’ Council has transmuted into Wow! Magazine, an online magazine with articles you won’t want to miss. Here’s the latest. Trump and how to beat him, according to the Guardian Unprecedented Ice: I’m A Denier Republicans Win Georgia 6 Election Not Unity But Civility How Cats
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Under Islamic siege, politically-correct England fails the Fawlty Towers test
In 1975’s Fawlty Towers, it was funny to say “don’t mention the war” to Germans. In England today, it’s no joke that you can’t pair Islam with violence. After John Cleese left Monty Python, he and his then-wife, Connie Booth, went on to create and start in Fawlty Towers. In
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Bookworm Beat 3/22/17 — the “let’s pretend that terrorist attacks in London are ordinary” edition
This round-up post opens with the London terrorist attack, but also covers Trump and Obamacare, the Sudan, climate change, media bias, faith, and risky sex. In the wake of the deadly terrorist attack in London, people were remembering last year, when London’s first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, said that terrorism
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The Bookworm Beat 8/1/16 — the “media bias” edition and open thread
I never go looking for legal work, but when my old clients ask for help, I always say “yes.” They were there when my husband was not established in his career and we had children to feed and rent to pay, so I will be there when they have a
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat — empty house edition, Part II
A moment of calm, so I’m resuming my round-up. Things are not good all over Richard Fernandez does a quick survey of the three main issues on America’s plate — Russia, Iraq, and Ebola — and is not sanguine. He’s not screaming that the end is near, but he thinks
Continue readingThe horrible racism and cruelty of political correctness
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) occurs at the intersection of Africa and Islam — meaning brown people and black people. It involves taking a little girl and cutting off her clitoris and, perhaps, her labia. In extreme circumstances, it means sewing together the opening to her vagina. It’s purpose is a
Continue readingA quick riff on yesterday’s events in London
Beheading is a peculiarly devastating form of murder, more so than shooting or stabbing. Human identity is tied to the head. From birth, we are programmed to recognize faces and voices. It’s the human face and the mind behind it that separate us, not only from other animals, but from
Continue readingLife does NOT imitate the Simpsons when it comes to handling bullies
From Season 1 of The Simpsons (waaaay back in 1990), comes “Bart the General“: After defending Lisa from school bully Nelson Muntz, Bart becomes Nelson’s latest target. Sick of the harassment and torment, Bart, Grampa Simpson, and Herman (a slightly deranged military antique store dealer with a missing arm) rally
Continue readingNo air of verisimilitude to this otherwise unconvincing narrative
It turns out that the young man who hung on the Union Jack flag in order to climb a cenotaph dedicated to the dead of WWI, a cenotaph that has inscribed on it in large letters “the glorious dead,” has apologized, claiming he knew not what he did. Hogwash. First
Continue readingBritain outlaws a homeowner’s self-defense against intruders
One of the most basic principles of Anglo-Saxon common law is a homeowner’s right to defend himself against intruders. Oh, wait! That’s not quite true anymore. In England, which practically gave its name to the notion that “a man’s home is his castle,” homeowner self-defense is against the law (emphasis
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