A couple of weeks ago I pounded Mr. Douthat rather heavily, in a short piece titled Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”, ridiculing the poor man for sighing over the faded plumage of the Catholic Church in a column he called “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, noting that “recently, all 34 Chilean bishops have offered to…
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Maxine Waters is 1/536th as obnoxious as Donald Trump, Republicans admit Well, they would if they had any honor, which of course they don’t. Yes, Maxine has an affection for conspiracy theories, and, furthermore, she is a black chick who doesn’t act white, which in conservative circles is an unforgivable sin. Yo, Maxine! Get a…
Charles Krauthammer was a wonderful man and a shameless liar
If you want to read kind words about Charles Krauthammer, well, go ahead. By all accounts, in his private life Krauthammer was gracious and kind to everyone he met, regardless of their political convictions. But Charles isn’t famous for being a nice guy; he’s famous for being a political commentator, and as a political commentator…
The Windsors on Netflix: Cheaper than malt liquor, and way better for you!
Yeah, I know, it’s tough livin’ in the age o’ Trump, and, particularly, livin’ in the land o’ Trump, and the temptation to crack a forty before noon weighs heavily on a lot of us, but stiff that desire, friends, there’s a better way: The Windsors, the low-comedy antithesis and antipodes to the much lamented…
Those Mean Old Disestablishment Blues: Why it’s so hard to put Humpty-Dumpty together again
Dreary old Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by almost three million votes, despite being deeply loathed by millions of voters, many of whom held their noses and voted for snatch snatchin’ Don. Post election, Trump’s poll ratings have never reached the 45% mark, despite a booming stock market and a steadily expanding economy. So why…
“Thoughtful” conservatives getting awfully tired of thinking. But not all of them.
I remember reading as a boy that one can think for three days on the energy contained in a peanut. On the right, it seems, peanuts are getting scarce. Over at the New York Times, David Brooks is finding solace in Donald Trump’s lizard brain, which, it appears, is kicking ass all over the world:…
Koch U? Why not?
The Koch brothers, aka the Dave n’ Charlie Show, have gotten some fairly negative publicity regarding a large number of donations they have either made or leveraged to George Mason University in Northern Virginia. A recent article in the New York Times by Erica Green and Stephanie Saul quotes Bethany Letiecq, an associate professor at…
Olinka Mitroshina—“Four In One”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXQooXwRGjc Olinka Mitroshina, who usually devotes her time to reinventing “traditional” jazz (Bessie Smith, George Gershwin, Billie Holiday), here gets Monkish. Posted by Olinka Mitroshina Mo Monk, Mo Monk, Mo Monk? Yes! Available now from Mostly Monk
David Cannadine’s Victorious Century: A bit too victorious, if you ask me
A couple of months back I bounced a post, pithily entitled Forward!, off Kyle Sammin’s review in the National Review of David Cannadine’s new book, Victorious Century, The United Kingdom 1809-1906. I said at the time “I have read the introduction, and I’m definitely looking forward to the rest. Kyle’s review only encourages my appetite.”…
First Things First: Uncle Reno’s Just So Stories
What do you get when you click on an article in First Things, that heady brew of theological harrumphing first set in motion by frenzied spiritual striver Richard John Neuhaus, about whom I (mostly) snickered here? Well, judging from this piece by the site’s editor, R.R. (Richard Russell) Reno, “End Times Anxiety”, you’ll learn a…