Got an urge to bake this evening so I made some cranberry-orange scones from this Ina Garten recipe. (I call her Ina Kleine NachtGarten, but only Mozart aficionados get the joke.) After I applied the orange glaze and broke out the Double Devon cream we bought the other day, Mrs. Blather tried one. Then she had another […]
A liberal fascist dictatorship is rising to our south–one that has growing military relationships with Iran, China and Russia; and connections to drug cartels and terrorist organizations. Hugo Chavez first stacked the Venezuelan Parliament with cronies and puppets. Today that parliament voted to vest Chavez with broad, near-dictatorial powers. The powers supposedly come with an […]
Here’s another fascinating though heartbreaking glimpse at mid-1938 via that issue of TIME magazine I mentioned below. This time it’s an article titled “Wandering Jews.” Here’s an extended excerpt: One night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point […]
I came across this on the BoingBoing blog the other day and have been meaning to mention it . . . A collector/dealer of rare and used science books recently posted on his blog a description of a 1939 science book titled A Preliminary Atlas of Early Human Fetal Activity by one Dr. Davenport Hooker. […]
My goodness, it’s been a while. Thanksgiving was nice. For the first time since school started in August, we were “five” again. As soon as the college girls arrived home on Tuesday, we loaded up the Expedition and headed to my mom’s. This was to be her first holiday since Dad went to heaven two […]
Over at National Review Online, Mike Potemra posts an interesting analysis of the “Palin for President” electoral dynamics. He opens with this: “When I see the fervor of Sarah Palin’s fans — and by no means just those who swell the adoring crowds who go to her public appearances — I am convinced that the question […]
Is there a worse business in the world to be in than the commercial airline industry? That’s the thought that keeps coming to me as I watch the nightmarish TSA security screening story unfold in all it’s gropey, feeley, naked-scannery ugliness. It’s bad enough that any company that wants to turn a profit by flying large […]
The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.
Behold, Super Mamika. (via BoingBoing): Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika, a WWII survivor, feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he photographed her dressed up as a fictional superhero. To his surprise, she loved it. What to do when your holocaust survivor grandmother is depressed? “Take pictures of her dressed up like a […]
I don’t want to harsh anyone’s buzz. So, if you’re still basking in the afterglow of the elections or simply working on focusing on happy thoughts today, then, (1) good for you and, (2) skip this post. This way lies sadness. Yesterday brought us a pretty sobering analysis of the U.S. economic situation in light […]
