Westerns Episode 15: Tombstone (1993)
In our latest in the 1990-present day segment of this series, Dr. Fleming gives his take on the iconic 1993 Tombstone, very popular among Gen-X men. Homework for the next episode is The Last Samurai.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Ukraine War Endgame
The end of a war often is the nastiest part. Look at the Afghanistan fiasco just over two years ago. Or the helicopters lifting off from the U.S. Embassy in Saigon in 1975, followed by the exodus of the Boat People…. Which is why the Ukraine War, as it enters its final phase, could get nasty.
The Wretched of the Earth
For many years whitebread Americans have struggled to find a place at the American table. Such outcasts of society do not even have a name they can call themselves without setting off a storm of reprisals. Euro-American? Not hardly. Whites? The very word might get you firebombed.
Wednesday’s Child: The Fretful Angler
Contemplative inaction, as the gentle reader may be reminded by the calls to patience back in the days when he was a boisterous child, is of the essence. But then, when at last the fish takes the bait, it’s dexterous action that is of the essence, with the angler jerking his rod at just the right moment to set the hook and eventually landing the catch in the hand net.
Union Terror by Jeffrey F. Addicott
In only 130 pages of terse prose, Aldicott surveys outlines the general policy of Union Terror, the war crimes committed by Union troops, and the false justifications offered by apologists for terror.
The Latin of the Latin Mass V: The Devil in the Details
One systemic problem, which the reformers tried to correct, (without conspicuous success) is the oversimplified syntax and avoidance of complex sentences. The English translation is childish and simplified–a series of simple sentences, which lack the dignity and grandeur of the Latin
The Latin of the Latin Mass IV
Latin is not a magic bullet that will kill the demons destroying Christendom. But it is a fact that so long as the literate classes of Europe and North America were brought up learning Latin, writers knew how to write clearly and effectively, and even ordinary people who had studied 4 years of Latin were more open to logical argument, more interested in truth than educated people are today
Persecutor Christie Stinks Up Fourth Debate
Christie disgusting. With Trump’s support at 60% and most of the other 40% in the GOP thinking the legal cases against Trump are bogus, it’s ludicrous for Christie to base his whole campaign on validating the charges.
Wednesday’s Child: Algorithms
The big reason I welcome colder weather is that after the inescapable shorts and sleeveless shirts of Sicilian summer I can wear jackets and suits again. But not only because a jacket lends respectability – my vaguely professorial look has on occasion helped me get credit from merchants and of course I would never go see the bank manager dressed for a budget excursion – but also because a gentleman’s jacket is like a lady’s handbag. It safeguards the algorithms.
The Latin of the Latin Mass, III: Clarity, Correctness, and Traditions
Then it should be obvious to all that clarity, one of the rhetoricians’ requirements for good prose, is particularly important in translations of Scriptures and liturgies. Another primary requirement, correctness, is related to clarity, because languages with prescriptive rules are less ambiguous than languages where “I say potayto, you say potahto,” and where a majority of speakers do not know the difference between relative clauses introduced by which and those introduced by that.
