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June 2020

June 07, 2020

In Praise of Mickey

Mickey Mouse is ninety-one. I suspect that with jazz, Lincoln, and scientific advances, Disney animation...

June 06, 2020

Managed Decline: On Franz Joseph

A visit to the tombs of the Hapsburg dynasty is a review of a large...

June 05, 2020

Oliver Twist (More Summer Reading, With Questions to Ask, A Novel on Trouble Times)

If you wish to keep thinking systems cannot be unjust, do not read Dickens. If...

June 04, 2020

Summer Reading for Jollification: Pickwick Papers (with some questions!)

Sleep sometimes hides from me and I find words soothing. They distract me from my...

June 03, 2020

Needed Leadership and the Limits of Leadership (Missing Thatcher)

Margaret Thatcher makes pygmies of many of our present leaders on both sides of...

June 02, 2020

The Bravest American President?

Some do theater, Grant won battles. George McClellan could write about courage, but could not...

June 01, 2020

A Long Day’s Journey. . .and David Suchet

In Praise of David Suchet David Suchet is the greatest actor I have ever seen...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Common Prayer for the Ages

Today I will pray, still online, with my parish and the prayers will be familiar. Our...

May 30, 2020

A Virtue of “Just” Praying

What should we do: to end potential war between India and China? to secure justice...

May 29, 2020

Prove it!

World War I continues to haunt the world as the mistakes of the "peace" treaty...

May 28, 2020

Consider Systematic Problems

Yesterday, a person started ranting about a particular failure and how people needed to "get...

May 27, 2020

A Small Thought on Marie Antoinette in Less Difficult Times

Marie Antoinette. A great many people have an opinion two hundred and fifty years later....

May 26, 2020

“Silver and Gold, I Have?” The Prosperity Gospel Defended?

"Silver and Gold I have. . ." so said the televangelist to applause so overwhelming,...

May 25, 2020

Union Forever

Hope E. Reynolds recollects our heroes. Noble men and women reburied Union soldiers and so...

May 25, 2020

The Venerable Damiane: the Prayers and Music Endure

Do not despair, lose hope, say a prayer, fight for freedom, write a hymn, save...

May 24, 2020

Poops and Joy in the Morning (Joy in Pandemic Time)

Nessie, the wonder dog, with a nose as keen as Sherlock's Toby, has introduced a new...

May 23, 2020

Take the Beans

Times are tough, but not, Thank God, Depression Era tough. My grandparents lived through those...

May 22, 2020

It is impossible for a man to achieve good through evil means.

XXI. Be attentive to your heart and watch your enemies, for they are cunning in...

May 21, 2020

Confidence in Peace, Help in the Crisis

XVI. He who receives no help when at war should feel no confidence when at...

May 20, 2020

Resist Hatred

II. If you find yourself hating your fellow men and resist this hatred, and you...

May 19, 2020

At the Center of the Labyrinth . . . (On Pandemics, Dying, and Phaedrus)

Socrates waits to die. Athens has decided that he is a trouble maker, asking impertinent...

May 18, 2020

The Necessity of Poetry to the Analytic Mind

Once I knew a scholar who thought fiction was useless, poetry merely sentimental, and wished...

May 17, 2020

So You Wish to Teach College? More School? What to Do?

Should you keep going to school? If you wish to teach at a college, in...

May 16, 2020

Tree’s Television Set (A Yarn about a Humorous School Yarn)

Screens have changed a good bit, often for the better. This information is (almost surely)...

May 15, 2020

The Puppy Nessie Found Home

Nessie came home. In the midst of the pandemic, we realized we were ready to...

May 14, 2020

Heard Over and Over Again: Variety is Good

Small ones delight in repetition. Children want to hear the same stories over and over again. ...

May 13, 2020

Frank Baum Offers a Means to Keep Sports Going at the University When Things Must Be Cut (Oz on Education)

The Problems of Higher Education Did Not Start Yesterday Remarkably, higher education should focus on...

May 12, 2020

The Emerald City of Oz and Blaming Fans for Bad Writing

Should fans let characters go? When I heard that William Shatner's Kirk was doing one...

May 11, 2020

Maytime in Pandemic Time (Adélia Prado)

The State of May Salvation operates in the abyss. In this indescribable place, night’s power...

May 10, 2020

Mater Dolorosa

Mater Dolorosa This taffy tastes like coconut, Mama. Did you put coconut in it? –...