Wednesday’s Child: Shock of the New
Suppressing the pangs of guilty conscience like a recidivist pickpocket – Conscience? What a load of hooey! – I’m taking my four-year-old to Burger King.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Greek I.32: The Optative Mood
Ancient Greek has four moods/modes. Like Latin, Italian, French, and Modern Greek, it has indicative for statements and questions of fact, imperative for commands, subjunctive to express uncertainty or probability, and Optative
Harold Lloyd, the Bespectacled Everyman by Vince Cornell
Harold Lloyd, the last member of the trio of early cinema’s silent clowns, is simultaneously highly recognized and completely forgotten.
Pope Pius IX, Part I
This is a revised version of a talk given to a group of high school history teachers in Louisiana in 2007.: Pius IX, an almost forgotten “great man”
Wednesday’s Child: The Ship of State
As I noted here a month ago, my interest in the Titanic originated in my four-year-old’s obsession with the maritime disaster, which I had at first found as inexplicable as other children’s obsession with dinosaurs.
The Peace President Goes To War
Some of my friends are supporting Trump’s intervention in Venezuela and, likely, again in Iran. Ok, we disagree, but let’s remain friends. Politics divides too often.
The Best Revenge: Ragù alla Clemenza
For several decades I have been doing variations on Italian meat sauce. I was initially inspired by watching The Godfather, the scene where the family and allies are hunkered down and Peter Clemenza (played by Richard Castellano) shows Michael how they made meat sauce in prison.
Acting Naturally: The Biggest Fools That Ever Hit the Big Time, Week I
Here is your chance to nominate and vote for the Biggest Big-Time Fools of the Week
Plain Talk
The demonstrations, in Minneapolis and other cities, against the enforcement of US immigration law are a vivid illustration of what the American people, in their childish pursuit of what they imagine to be human right, have become.
Misery and Gin, conclusion
Simplifying ideologies drain the life out of most of us, and any form of subjectivism leads quickly to relativism, and thus indifference. From “You say potahto, I say potayto,” the descent to every erotic eccentric’s defense, “Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it” is rapid.
