Roe Conn just now on WLS-AM, saying he liked having Bill Clinton lie to him, but not Hillary. He doesn’t like her, he said, “and you know why?” She’d be yellin’ at me all . . . day . . . long. He’s got it about her. It’s a masculine remark but not sexist. And [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
The elegant assassin
This guy has called Toni Morrison’s novel “Paradise” “babyishly cradled in magic . . . sentimental, evasive, and cloudy.” Check him out at New Republic and (soon) in the New Yorker, as “blood pressure of some of America’s leading novelists” rises, per Boston Globe. Tags: James+Wood, Toni+Morrison
The devil makes them do things . . .
Three reasons why Chicago Bears player Lance Briggs walked away from his crumpled $350G auto at 3 a.m. Aug. 27 on the Edens: 1. He had to go to the bathroom real bad. 2. He had to call his mother to say he was not hurt. 3. He had to call Coach Lovie Smith to [...]
Mass, the Bible, and Father McGuire
WHAT CATHOLICS HEAR AT MASS . . . Just returned from SSPX territory (Society of Saint Pius X), where mass is Tridentine and the calendar too. So we had old-style 13th Sunday after Pentecost readings, which meant we heard nothing from the OT, so that I neither heard nor read Isaiah 66 predicting proclamation “to [...]
Think pink to be in the pink
Between woman preferring pink and their being better shoppers, “the connecting theme” is that in the division of labour that forms the primordial bargain of human hunter-gatherer societies, it is the men who do the hunting and the women who do the gathering says The Economist in a foray into evolutionary psychology provocatively titled “Sex, [...]
Writer gone wild
Sarkozy of France as risk-taker who relishes life on the edge, a “human bomb,” in the New Yorker, where Adam Gopnik serves up edgy writing such as is relished by the magazine-reading intelligentsia cum cultured despisers: This makes his aura in France very different from his aura in America, where no French personality since Brigitte [...]
Durbin nods
Dennis Byrne caught Sen. Durbin (D.-IL) in a politically correct but factually incorrect statement the other day. He wrote an EPA official suggesting BP would break U.S. law if it discharged further into Lake Michigan, as Indiana has said it may. Byrne cited the Clean Water Act allowing exception to the no-more-discharging part, “to accommodate important economic [...]
Is there a doctor in the house? Yes!
What hath God wrought on the South Side of Chicago? The St. Sabina web site refers to the pastor as Rev. Dr. Michael Louis PflegerThe Faith Community of Saint Sabina [Italics, boldface added] When did this happen? Why weren’t we told? Thing is, we were told. It’s honorary, from North Park Theological Seminary, since May. [...]
Inconvenient but true
Criminal activity among young African-Americans is the poison of cities and of race relations; if [Mayor Mike] Bloomberg can force a conversation about it, he could help reclaim urban America. That’s Heather Mac Donald in City Journal summing up her story calling for “the truth about black crime rates.”
Funny representative
This from Opinion Journal’s Political Diary, which I again recommend at $3.95/mo., is precious. This Alaska congressman, defending his “bridge to nowhere,” actually to an island with 50 inhabitants that will experience a boom with a bridge, much to the profit of a senator, governor, or congressman, I forget which, who has bought a large [...]
