At present Lithuania is a tiny Baltic country wedged between Latvia and a small Russian enclave on the Baltic and Poland, with Belorussia on the southeast. There are 2.8 million Lithuanians plus another 200,000 Lithuanian-speakers outside the country, a population about the size of Dallas if the suburbs are included.
The world is full of bad news, and most of it does not require a dedicated chronicler to record and analyze. So one reads, for instance, how the music department of Oxford University announces that musical notation has not “shaken off its connection to its colonial past” and is “a slap in the face to some students,” while “musical skills should no longer be compulsory” because the current focus “on white European music causes students of color great distress.”
A Brief Chronology of later Roman History with a few quotations and citations added as the weeks go by….
Now Cancel Culture even has canceled baseball. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred moved this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta to a location yet to be determined. My suggestion: Pyongyang.
The period of the Persian Wars and the aftermath were a period of intense political activity at Athens. In one generation, Athenians had expelled the tyrants, completely reorganized their commonwealth, and beaten back two Persian invasions. Such success was bound to inspire confidence in the Athenian commonwealth, a confidence that would lead first to to the hybris of the Athenian Empire and then to the ruin Athens suffered in the war with Sparta and her allies.
A priest in Russia was visiting a prison last week and, as the Orthodox are now in Lent, advised the inmates “to ready yourselves for the coming of Easter, to cleanse yours souls of sin, to limit your consumption of victuals and to deny yourselves worldly diversions.”
The moment I learned of the existence of Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South, I set about acquiring my own copy. For the book in question deals with an important and fascinating subject which has been mostly “memory-holed” by Catholic pop media which is more interested in celebrating the ostensibly “Catholic” side of Mohatmas Ghandi than in recalling those of our forebears who stood on “the wrong side of history.”
Gentle reader, I will be frank. There are no two gentlemen of Verona in my story, and the one and only gentleman I dilate upon rather belongs to Sicily than to the north of Italy. But ever since my salad days as a jobbing journalist in London I have envied my yellow press colleagues writing headlines of the “Headless Body in Topless Bar” variety….
I must’ve been staring at the sign over the restaurant in Via Roma for too long, because my wife pulled on my coat sleeve and asked if everything was all right. This is a new Japanese restaurant in Palermo, and like all new Japanese restaurants in Palermo it was started by the Chinese
As a U.S. Army veteran, I’m disgusted by how the Biden regime is politicizing the U.S. military. It’s breaching the sharp delineation between civilian and military essential in a free country.
The Pentagon, backed by the lying media, is carpet-bombing Tucker Carlson, one of the few actual journalists left. He pointed out sending pregnant women into combat maybe isn’t such a great tactic
