Take Three Minutes
. . .and send a “Thank You” card to a U.S. serviceman. End this year with an act that is noble, decent and oh, so simple.
Month: December 2007
Investing in a President
I made my first campaign contribution of this presidential election cycle the other day. Who got my money? This guy. Note: If you have 15 17 minutes, watch the whole thing. See if you don’t hear a good president speaking to you.
The Other Hitchens
I linked to the wonderful Peter Hitchens below. The other day, my friend Fergus (who is married to the other Angel of the North), sent me a link to a deeply moving and typically well-written piece by Christopher Hitchens in Vanity Fair. That Hitchens is, of course the militant atheist who has become the toast […]
Slow Motion Surrender to Islam
As in Canada, it accelerates in England. Here’s Peter Hitchens in the British paper, The Mail: The deeply English, deeply Christian city of Oxford, one of the homes of free thought, is now being asked to accept the Islamic call to prayer wafting from mosque loudspeakers over its spires and domes. If that is not […]
Did you know…?
. . .that Benazir Bhutto was an outspoken pro-lifer? I didn’t.
Post-Christmas Thoughts and Blather
I suppose the weather we’ve had recently could in one sense be called “Christmas-y” in that, like a holy infant, it has been mostly “tender and mild.” Sixties and low 70s during the day—cool crisp nights with the brightest, full moon I can ever recall seeing. The rising moon was so bright on Christmas Eve, and with a […]
God Has Blessed Us—Every One
We have good friends with one child still under the age of 12. Our girls are all teenagers. Thus they were cajoled and harangued out of bed at 6:15 this morning, while I got to sleep until 9:00. That’s what I’m talking about. Add to that, the fact that there was nothing that required assembly at 1am and you have […]
Al Qaeda Theologian: "Oopsies. Our bad!"
A highly influential imam, after lots of time for quiet reflection and intropspection in an Egyptian prison, has come to the conclusion the the 9/11 attacks, along with the 3/11 attack (Spain) and 7/7 attack (London) not to mention the dozens of thwarted jihadi operations that have been planned over the last 6 years—were all a big […]
Call Me Uptight. . .
But this just seems wrong to me. Is it just me? Or does appropriating the jolly old elf to hawk Lucky Strikes cross some sort of line? Sure, I know the old man smoked a pipe, but that just seems different somehow. Could it be that L.S.M.F.T. actually stood for: “Look, Santa’s Mouth has the Frangrance of Tar!”?  “And I heard him exclaim as he rode out of sight, “Hey buddy, Zippos’s dry. Can I bum a light?”
Why I'm Not a Kindergarten Teacher
 If I’m ever attacked by 17 maniacal five-year-olds with murder in their hearts, I should be okay. That’s the expert evaluation of the web site, howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com. I’m not making this up. I have this certificate to prove it. 17  Add an 18th five-year-old and I’m likely to get my tail kicked, apparently. The survey I […]