A great anti-sprawl song from the late great Housemartins. Yep, they were Commies - but they were talented Commies.
It s pretty much the prime directive of the gospel: whenever you have done for the least of these, you have done it for me.
I understand conerns about terrorists crossing our borders and detonating a bomb. We need more border enforcement, without question.
There s nothing wrong with being dull.
Seriously. Were it not for dull people, others might not shine as brightly. If every leftist had John Stewart s wit, we wouldn t have, well, John Stewart.
For every Mel Gibson there are - thank God - a thousand David Broders. Watching cricket, we learn the valuable lesson that sometimes in life, nothing ever happens
After 41 years, I finally met my grandfather.
Word is, Pope Benedict is soon to issue a letter allowing priests to perform the traditional Latin Rite Mass.
Expect the usual howling from Protestants posing as Catholics that it s one more giant step backwards for this reaction pope and blah blah blah. Ignore Dowd, Dionee, Russert et al, and see what the fuss is all about:
Over on his website, Andrew Sullivan wonders if he should link to or respond to reviews of his book. He decides to reply to ones that offer a serious argument.
I suppose it s not a woman thing. Pop music in general is crap today, even more conservative than classical. Let s see, you ve got your bubblegum bimbo pop - Jessica Simpson, Britney, and their imitators - your dumb-ass rap, your fifth-generation Sex Pistols wannabes.
Shrug. It all seems spent the way How Much is That Doggie in the Window pop was in the 1950s - on the brink, ready to collapse, over.
Is Iraq really that much of a disaster?
Dick Morris recently said, Iraq in a civil war is still a step up from Saddam. Honestly, is a free, democratic and pro-America Kurdistan (name a single article you ve read about that) along with a neighbor tearing itself limb from limb in tribal and religious warfare that much of a debacle, as opposed to a lying, scheming, yellowcake-bargaining Saddam gearing up for another invasion of one of his neighbors, with terrorists recovering in his hospitals? Iraq was suddenly set free, and free people can act like jerks.
How I wish Howard Kurtz were a moron.If that were the case, it would be easy to dismiss the Washington Post and CNN media reporter as mentally impaired, and thus not responsible for his own idiocy. But Kurtz is not dumb.
It’s just that his liberal bias makes him say some really, really dumb things.
Tonight at Maryland s beautiful Spanish Ballroom (originally built in 1933), the 92 year-old swing dance legend Frankie Manning will do his stuff ( for info). It s interesting to ponder: during a depression, Jim Crow, and a World War, black pop culture gave us Duke Eillington, Ella, and Frankie Manning.
Today, with unprecedented opportunity, wealth, and freedom, we get Jay-Z, P. Diddy and Al Sharpton.
Mr.
Cooke offers some nice, level-headed ideas about Christmas. Here s my two cents, in case anyone attempting to secularize the holiday this year tries to throw Irving Berlin at you:
In the wake of the Foley mess, it s a good idea to remind oursleves what sex is for. Today Pauline Media issues a new translation of the Mt.
Everest of love:
Andrew Sullivans book The Conservative Soul is out today, and he says on his website he hopes it is just the beginning of a conversation. He hopes to enage in every criticism that comes in:
A year before Benedict s speech, the terrific Catholic journal Communio was on the case:
I had forgotten about these guys. Their first album Cake is a masterpiece.
When the movie of the week about the Foley mess comes out, they don t need to look far for the theme song:
You’re thinking it even if you don’t say it: Are gay people perverts?
Adam Bellow is part of a cool new effort to organize and issue substantive blogs as pamphlets. Beautiful graphic design, perfect for us fogeys who stil like reading in bed and the bathtub:
Even in my worst days as a drunk, there were things I did not do.
I had forgotten how great the band R.E.M.
once were. After the bloat of late 1970s rock and the cheese of that era s a.m.
radio, it truly was a tonic when punk and New Wave came along. No 20-minute drum solos, no whiny guitar riffs, no wannabe soul-man Mick Jagger tropes. Just music with grace, power, beauty, and honesty.
R.E.M.
has a new retrospective cd of their early years out. They were never that good again. From 1985, when I was a sophomore in college and saw them for the first time:
So now Mel Gibson is trashing the war effort.
As reported on the Today show, New York Times and everywhere, he has called the death of American troops in Iraq human sacrafice.
First of all, Let me say that Michelle Boorstein, the religion reporter for the Washington Post, is a nice person and an honest reporter. I believe she doesn’t consider herself biased.
So the following critique is in the form of opening a friendly discussion, not of putting her down.Last April 28, Boorstein reported a story that was soon picked up by AP and local Washington radio and television. Fr.
Gary Orr, a priest at Georgetown Preparatory School, was found guilt of sexual abuse by the Jesuit provincial in Maryland. The school itself had cleared Orr twice of the accusations, and couldn’t explain the discrepancy. Boorstein reported all of this straight, a simply 5 W s piece.
Who was the nun recently murdered by Islamic nutbags (yes Islamic nutbag is a redundancy)? There s been a blackout in the media as to her life story and the manner of her death, of course. Imagine if a Muslim woman had been shot in the back by rabid Christian thugs.
There would be gooey Today show features, roundtables with E.J. Dionne, Cokie Roberts and Jim Wallis, books, etc.
Hollywood would already be in pre-production for the story, and gaseous jabberjaw Chris Mathews would declare a theocracy. Maureen Dowd would simply stroke out.
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