The publication of Brad Gooch’s Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor has prompted a number of excellent essays about Flannery on the web (see Christopher Benfey here and Joseph O’Neill here ). I was pleased to see Flannery treated with less than reverence by both writers. Stories like “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”…
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Scalia to Britney: Drop Dead!
The Supreme Court issues a ruling affirming, sort of, the right of the FCC to punish “fleeting obscenities.” Justice Scalia, writing for a 5-4 majority, took a whack at the “foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood.” For those not up on their Latin, the “ae” ending indicates that the good Justice was directing his ire at trash-talking…
Well, maybe they were JEWISH beastmen
As a rule, I don’t read the Sunday comics at all, so I stumbled on the April 12 installment of Prince Valiant* without the slightest clue as to what was going down, but, apparently, three babes from King Author’s Court have been kidnapped by a gang of “beastmen.” Intervening on behalf of the chicks is…