In The Mailbox: 01.01.19
— compiled by Wombat-socho OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: May You All Have A happy & Auspicious New Year Twitchy: SNL Alum’s New Year’s Resolution Is To “Make Sure The Republican Party Dies” Louder With Crowder: Alexandria Occasional-Cortex Goes Bananas When Called Out For Lying About The Bronx Rod Dreher: Learning From The Spanish Civil War […]
Re-Learning Crap
This morning Smitty called to wish me a Happy New Year, and our conversation continued until I went off on one of my veins-bulging on my neck rants about Jonah Goldberg. See, my friend Professor Paul Gottfried cited me today: Recently American Spectator-columnist Robert Stacy McCain issued a blistering response to Jonah Goldberg’s latest efforts at refurbishing […]
Rule 5 Monday: Michelle Dockery
— compiled by Wombat-socho I have a lot of friends who all think Terry Pratchett was God’s gift to the fantasy genre, but with a couple of exceptions I just haven’t gotten around to reading his books or watching the various movies & TV shows made from them. Until last night, when I spent a […]
Decline and Fall
Marcus Aurelius. “I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages, and very soon found myself a vehement partisan of the author against the disparagements of his pompous-pious editor.” — Winston Churchill, My Early Life A six-volume […]
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