If Only All Political Ads Were This Entertaining
Language advisory to the above video. The only reason we don’t have national voter ID is because Democrats routinely cheat in close elections and everyone knows it.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Macrina the Younger
O Lord, You have freed us from the fear of death. You have made the end of life here the beginning of a true life for us… Let not the dreadful abyss separate me from your chosen ones… You who have on earth the power to forgive sins, forgive me, so that I may draw […]
Fifty-Seven Years of Mary Jo Kopechne Being Unavailable for Comment
Over half a century with no Earthly justice done. Here is Ted Kennedy’s non-mea culpa, notable for how little of the details of the incident he could recall, and an example of how to appear to take responsibility while not taking responsibility. Kennedy was helped by all this occurring while the attention of the nation […]
Young Washington
My Bride and I and our son saw Young Washington (2026) yesterday. We all loved the film and I strongly recommend it. It is a very good movie and true to history. Full review to follow when I have time. In the meantime, here is a decent review by Ben Shapiro.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Pambo
I go to the Lord as one who has not yet begun to serve Him. Said by Saint Pambo to his monks as he lay dying at age 70 after a lifetime of service to God.
Ballad of the Green Berets
Something for the weekend. Dolly Parton singing a variant of The Ballad of the Green Berets (1966). Bonus:
Open Thread
Contemporary education, with honorable exceptions, has little to do with education. The usual Open Thread rules apply: be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Charbel
You exist in this world to give and to serve. Saint Charbel
1381 The Great Peasants’ Revolt
Now reigneth pride in prize and covetousness is held wise, and lechery without shame and gluttony without blame. Envy reigneth with treason and sloth is taken in great season. God do boot, for now is time. Amen. John Ball, Priest and one the leaders of the Peasants Revolt Medieval Europe rested upon the work of […]
July 17, 1969: Halfway to the Moon
Fifty-six years ago Apollo XI was traveling 5000 miles per hour on its journey to the Moon, the gravity of the Earth gradually slowing the velocity of the spacecraft from the initial 25,000 miles per hour. The total distance of the trip, one way, was 238, 900 miles. Columbia’s engines were fired for about three […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
I want to teach the young and to inspire them with the love of God and liking for work. I want to help the poor and relieve them of some of their misery. These are the things I want to do. Saint Mary Magdalen Postel
Burn of the Day
However he is not a devotee of the traditional Mass, so all is well in the eyes of the Vatican. Go here for some background on the award he was given.
July 16: Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
HE was descended of a good family in Kent. From his infancy he turned all his thoughts and affections to attain to the most perfect love of God, and studied to devote all his moments to this glorious pursuit. In this earnest desire, in the twelfth year of his age, he retired into […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Bonaventure
Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can. Saint Bonaventure
July 15, 1870: Georgia Readmitted to the Union
Georgia was the last of the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union. Congress refused to sit Georgia representatives or senators in Congress in 1869 due to the action of the Georgia legislature in expelling black members of that body. This was followed by an attack by a white mob in the town […]
End of Changing the Clocks?
I support this, but I predict that if it becomes law it will be quickly reversed. Kids will be walking to school in darkness and that will cause an avalanche of stories about how unsafe this all is. Happened before in the seventies, in 1973-1974 when I was a junior in high school, and […]
Thought for the Day
Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space and no moment of infernal time has been surrendered to either of those abominable forces, but all has been occupied by […]
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
“Mother, look at this cross; oh! how beautiful it is! It has been my whole happiness during my life, and I advise you also to make it yours.” Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Thought for the Day
Go here to read the article. A favorite author of my Bride. She has read some of her works in the original Norwegian.
Burn of the Day
Attacking a politician for not having his nose in the trough is a new one on me, and I frequently disagreed with the late Senator Graham.
In Honor of Bastille Day
The three best scenes from Casablanca. Shocked! Shocked! Round up the usual suspects.
The Gaslighting Began Early
I recall when I was a kid that some of the older priests I quietly observed, seemed distinctly less than enthusiastic about Vatican II. They rarely spoke out, but they did not reflect the rah-rah official tone about Vatican II. Of course we were being taught Catechism by reading the Baltimore Catechism, and I could […]
July 13, 2024: Lest we Forget
Amazing, and very troubling, that we still know almost nothing about the motivation of the would be assassin, who came within a fraction of an inch of altering American history.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Clelia Barbieri
I shall remain always with you and I shall never abandon you! Sain by Saint Clelia Barbieri to her fellow sisters as she was dying at age 23 in 1870. Since that time her voice has been heard during Scriptural readings and hymns at Masses, in houses of the Order she founded, Little Sisters […]
