Quality interweb mischief from Jared Bridges
I’ve now completed (for the most part) TruePravda’s migration to WordPress as its backbone content management system (CMS). I’ve formerly been using Movable Type, and though it’s been good, I think WordPress will be better. It took me a while to get everything transferred over, but it was actually kind of fun to learn a … Read more
Paul Johnson, Jr., kidnapped in Saudi Arabia by al-Qaida needs all our prayers right now. Stop what you’re doing and pray now.
Ideas are apparently a fashion faux pas these days, especially if you’re Theresa Heinz-Kerry. Recent statements reveal that anger is more important in determining Heinz-Kerry’s political stance: Teresa Heinz Kerry says anger, not ideology, prompted her to become a Democrat. The wife of Sen. John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, says her emotion stemmed … Read more
James Panero is blogging from St. Petersburg, Russia, where the sun is up most all the night during the “White Nights” of June. St. Petersburg is one of my favorite cities to visit–I’ve been there twice in the month of June, and it really is eeire to be walking around at midnight in natural light. … Read more
Victor Davis Hanson has a must-read piece on NRO today: Nearly three years after 9/11 we are in the strangest of all paradoxes: a war against fascists that we can easily win but are clearly not ready to fully wage. We have the best 500,000 soldiers in the history of civilization, a resolute president, and … Read more
…Makes a stop in Washington: I hope these folks get a lot of publicity. I hope people recognize them wherever they go. I hope they remember that only in America are they allowed to display such buffoonery.
A New York Times article draws attention to recent legislation introduced by house Republicans to make it easier for churches to support political candidates. This is, of course, a red-hot political issue. It already has raised the ire of Democrats and other groups: Although its chances of enactment are uncertain, Democrats and other critics of … Read more
…Oprah Winfrey, the queen of sappy, “you go girl” spirituality, has picked one of my favorite books for the ubiquitous Oprah’s Book Club. Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina has been chosen by the talk-show host as this summer’s selection for her club. The book promptly rose to number one on the bestsellers list. I guess this is … Read more
TV newsreaders Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw think that there’s too much coverage of President Reagan’s death and memorial in the news: “Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it’s very hard to turn it, even slightly,” Rather said. “Nationally, the herd has grown tremendously.” I’m not really sure which herd Rather is talking … Read more
Discussing the practice of sortilege among early American settlers, Jackson Lears writes about a certain Christian reaction: Christians condemned it, then went into competition by resorting to the Sortes Sanctorum–the use of the Bible as a means of divination, either by opening it to a random passage or rolling dice to choose chapter and verse. … Read more