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(If you don’t know what that title means, see here.)

So, RC2 at Wheat & Weeds is transcribing tasty tidbits from an essay in First Things by Frederica Mathewes-Green, including this one:

Up front she makes several other cogent and appealing observations. Why do Claudette Colbert and Katherine Hepburn move like queens, she wonders, with [...]

Categories: History

Times of India - Sore throat? No US visa for you!

An American officer manning the counter asked her if she was a singer. She replied that she was — and was shocked when the gentleman asked, “How about singing a nice song for me?” Sonali landed on her feet, though, and joked that [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Strib - Cheri Pierson Yecke: Attacked for their looks

Where are the feminists? Their silence speaks volumes about their convictions and partisan leanings. After all, it is mainly conservative women who have been the victims of this sort of media slashing. Sad to say, with few exceptions, the circling vultures are left-leaning women.

Yeah, right, [...]

Categories: Politics

(People, hide your children.)

There’s a reason why societies have laws against men exposing themselves in public. As far as I’m concerned, forcing people to look at your genitals is a form of visual rape. Couching their exhibitionism in “politics,” these protesters conveniently sidestepped the idea that their display might offend anyone who isn’t [...]

Categories: Politics

Power Line - Shallow Throat

These are serious times, folks. And that is a serious crime.

Categories: Politics

Via RC2 (Sacrament model), I took a quiz:

What is your model of the church? [Dulles]

You scored as Institutional Model. Your model of the church is institutional. Jesus established all church hierarchy, which depends upon the Holy Spirit to guide all the members to the Father’s will. The hierarchy is responsible for teaching, sanctifying, and [...]

Categories: Wildcard

I’ve never liked watermelon. I’ve always thought it just about the most overrated fruit. But now I know where my problems started! I was trying to eat it!

Wheat & Weeds - Watermelon Carving

Could there be a more pure example of art for art’s sake? Recent winners of a Chinese watermelon [...]

Categories: Food

Z.A.E. Brain - The Forgotten Hero(ine)

Everyone (well, everyone who is anyone) knows that Watson and Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA, right? Well, not quite. There were several other people involved, especially one particular person, whose name has been underservedly overshadowed. Rosalind Franklin. [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

This story was told at the YFE conference last week, which I was reminded of just now, for reasons that will become abundantly clear:

Cardinal Ratzinger was heading to work one day, and was walking along a street in the Vatican, and a small group of tourists ran up to him, crying, “Cardinal, Cardinal! [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online - The West’s not anti-Islam — it just gives rights to women, by Mary Ann Sieghart

PERSONALLY, I find it deeply immoral to gang-rape a woman in revenge for something her brother did. — (you and me both, sister -ed) — I also find it immoral — though more trivial in the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Times Online - IRA announces an end to 35 years of armed struggle. By Philippe Naughton

The Irish Republican Army said today it was ending its armed campaign and ordered its members to dump their arms and pursue their political goals by “exclusively peaceful means”.

Now we just need to get those in Iraq to [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Yup, that’s our submarine force. Manly, serious, determined men, through and through.

Categories: War and Peace

Big fish, big bears, trendy fences, and bloggy submariners.

[WTFO]((http://www.crashcrew96.blogspot.com/)

Someday I’ll make it up there. And Bubblehead translates WTFO for us civilians.

Categories: War and Peace

Peter saw this on a white truck coming home last night:

4MREYRS

With, as one can probably guess, lots of W stickers all over the back. In Seattle.

Categories: Politics

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Zoë Brain.

Since Tim Blair’s announcement I suppose I’m free to tell. You know how girls and their secrets are.

Categories: People and Current Events