Which Works on Parakeets
“Her worries fluttered for a moment, the way her parakeet had done once in her hand for a moment. But she just put it back in the cage, and dropped the cloth over the top of it.”
The Envious Kind
“A certain kind of beauty flourishes when another kind is diminished.”
The Great Cat Poo Medallion
Rod Dreher has a good piece here on the great looming alternative that now confronts us. Within the biblical framework of a rightly-ordered patriotism, it is easy for Christians to take our native loyalties to our native land as a simple given, while reserving to ourselves the right to disagree with or oppose the decisions …
With a Ladle on the Large Side
“Lambeth actually knew how to be charming if he had a willing audience. If anybody was watching who knew what actual charm was, the effect was totally other than charming, but whenever someone wanted to be charmed—as Elizabeth most certainly did—he knew how to ladle it out of the pot.”
The Letters Are Light for a Reason
Letter to the Editor: The posting is going to be light this as week, as I am going to be off on vacation. There will be just a handful of things to keep you all from forgetting about me. ...
How Humility Deflects
“Many good men do not suspect the cause of the antipathy directed at them because they are too humble to think they might be the object of anything like envy.”
That America Is Gone Now
Introduction: Sometime last week, Kevin DeYoung outraged the already outraged by suggesting that it is time for faithful believers to think about a new culture wars strategy. Given that he ...
Which Is Pretty Quick
“But when he was away from her, when he was left alone with his own thoughts, his intellectual confidence that he would eventually win her would evaporate like dew off a melon in August.”