XMAS Music for the Holiday Season
An 18 minute podcast on the most and least tolerable commercial music for the “holiday season.”
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Merry Christmas from Christianity Today
It was strange timing for the Christianity Today editorial, “Trump Should Be Removed from Office.” It came out just after he was impeached and a week before Christmas, but what no looks like weeks or months before the Senate votes on it.
Pope Francis Finally Gets Something Right
How many times have we heard, at least since the end of the 1950’s, that young people will not return to the Church nor vocations increase until we make everything groovy? And now that they have made everything too groovy for words, with leftist policies on immigration, pop music and pop liturgies, a moral theology so thin it would constitute indecent exposure on a nude beach, what then?
Is Trump Impeached Or Not?
Perhaps, “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” That, at least, would be one answer the Democrats might give. More obviously, it also depends upon the meaning of “impeach.”
Poem: “Advent Calendar” by Archbishop Rowan Williams
He will come like last leaf’s fall.
One night when the November wind
has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth
wakes choking on the mould
Wednesday’s Child: A Victory for Labor
No, it isn’t a mistake, my title. It’s not like I don’t read the papers, you know. But in the stuffy atmosphere of Tory triumphalism, I think, the gentle reader may well be wishing for a window on the world to be opened. So what really happened in Britain last week? Well, basically, the two main political parties have exchanged roles, which is not, moreover, entirely a bad thing. It’s both good news and bad. Let me start with the good news. A number of pollsters analyzing the general election have spoken of a new divide in British society, as...
Little Boxes of the Mind, Conclusion
Change the character and you have changed the nation. A culture based on casual promiscuity, Gaia-worship, and mistranslations of Hindu and Mayan literature will produce an entirely different national character from one based on Homer and Dante.
A December Birthday: Santa Claus
An 18 minute podcast filled with occasionally accurate information on the life of Santa Claus
Humor in the Impeachment follies
Although they’re idiotic, tyrannical and boring, there’s humor in the Impeachment Follies: 1. Why hasn’t Greta Thunberg intervened to remove Trump and replace him with herself? Time magazine, long connected to the CIA, just proclaimed her Queen of the Galaxy. It quotes her marching orders to her subjects, “I want you to panic!” She replaced Queen Lea Organa, who died in the last P.C. Star Wars movie, but might come back in the next one, out December 20, “Star Wars XVIIXMCDMMVIIILMNOPQ: Jar Jar Abrams’ P.C. Guide to the Galaxy and Why Trump Should Be Impeached.” 2. Among the New Republic’s...
Remembering Russia by James Patrick
Text and Talk, 11 May 2019 It is difficult to forget Russia, given the proclivity of the state, real and imagined, to meddle in America elections and to violate egregiously the Monroe Doctrine by sponsoring illiberal client states such as Cuba and Venezuela that are organized on a socialist model. From 1946 to 1991 Russia was an existential threat to Western Europe. Its nuclear arsenal is now larger than that of the United States and it has the only other strategic air force in the world. Its manner in politics is bullying, and its leaders still consider the...
