Fair Warning: Just so that you have ample warning beforehand, I would like to provide an advance heads up that I intend to lay about myself like a coruscating berserker. So that you don’t have to resort to google, what that basically means is “sparkly lunatic.” Some of you may have guessed — from the …
Review: The Major Works
The Major Works by Francis Bacon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Francis Bacon was fantastically learned, wise, shrewd, and an epigrammatic master. Not only so, but he was plainly a conscientious and sincere Christian, one who knew the Scriptures well, and who applied them ably and often. Not surprisingly, he is often falsely accused. …
Conservative Curmudgeons
I don’t get many opportunities for this, so let me take them when I can. I refer, of course, to the exhilarating sensation of disagreeing with C.S. Lewis. In an essay on good work, Lewis says this: “Work nowadays must not be good. For the wearer, zip fasteners have this advantage over buttons: that, while …
Review: My Life As Author And Editor
My Life As Author And Editor by H.L. Mencken My rating: 4 of 5 stars Nothing much to say here except how much I love Mencken’s voice. View all my reviews
What Makes Racism Sinful
Back when the world was more oriented in a right side up way than it is now, racism was a short-hand way of describing the mental outlook of the bigot — and everybody knew what a bigot was also. Racism was a descriptive term, and I did not mind describing racism as a sin against …
Review: Every Writer’s Guide to Copyright and Publishing Law
Every Writer’s Guide to Copyright and Publishing Law by Ellen M. Kozak My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very helpful. Full of good information. The times, they are a changing. View all my reviews
Quick Follow Up on The Flag
As a number of you noticed, I wrote yesterday on what I regard as empty posturing on the part of the Southern Baptist Convention. This elicited a lot of reactions and comments, and so I thought to follow everything up with a few additional comments of my own. One of the reactions was by Jeff …
Review: Selected Poetry
Selected Poetry by Ogden Nash My rating: 5 of 5 stars A wonderful collection. Although I must say that it dawned on me that I wouldn’t really call Nash a poet. He was, top to bottom, front to back, a wit. Just a lot of fun. A regular poet published a book,And an excellent book …
Southern Baptist Lava Lamps
Just the other day, in a masterpiece of bad timing, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention voted to disassociate themselves from the Confederate battle flag. I maintain this was a cloth-headed blunder for three basic reasons. First, it was as though the second story of your house were on fire, and the fire department did …
Review: Matthew Arnold Eman Poet Lib #53
Matthew Arnold Eman Poet Lib #53 by Matthew Arnold My rating: 3 of 5 stars Although I think Dover Beach is a poem to be admired, the rest of this collection left me pretty flat. View all my reviews