Author: Thomas Fleming

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Best Revenge

19 May, 2015

The Best Revenge 1

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19 May:  Spiritual Advice Four dinner parties in a row is three too many.  Two of them were to celebrate a visit from an old friend, whom I serve as “spiritual advisor.”  The does not mean that I provide counseling aimed at edifying his soul.  My advice has strictly to do with spirits of the sort they bottle in Tennessee and her neighbor to the north.  I am not a whiskey snob or even a wine connoisseur.  I have connoisseurs of every kind.  You know the sort—people who take wine appreciation classes and torture the poor waiter or wine steward...

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From Under The Rubble

18 May, 2015

From Under the Rubble

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Under the Rubble I: Cryin’ Time Again in Boston Thomas Fleming The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been as weepy as a Roy Orbison song. The killer seemed to be crying when his aunt testified to what a good little boy he had been. A cousin told the jury that Dzhokhar had cried watching The Lion King with his father. Prosecution witnesses were full of tears and sorrow—unaffected and justified—for the victims of the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, but Sister Helen Prejean claims he told her that no one should have to suffer as his victims did. The only issue...

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FF / Fleming

17 May, 2015

The Measure of All Things

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Remember when a “Conservative” was someone opposed to change? “Any change, at any time, for any reason is to be deplored,” as The Duke of Cambridge (Victoria’s uncle) once declared. Back in the 1950’s, the word got restricted to the meaning “anti-communist/capitalists who believed in a strong defense and a free economy, and it was embodied in the unlikely person of Barry Goldwater. By the election of 1980, Conservatives had taken the initiative and were now the bold innovators in economic and foreign policy. Most conservatives were delighted with the change of image—from Tory squire to progressive, from curmudgeon to...