It’s Springtime in Alaska, so…

“…let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” Yesterday (Sunday) we had some pretty good snow flurries during the afternoon, and this morning when I took Mira for her morning walk there was a light drizzle of small, icy snow flakes.
Temperatures were too warm for any of it to stick- well, warm enough. [...]

Assault and (Moon)battery carries a penalty

It cheers the heart to see Berkeley incur an increasing penalty for it’s assault-and- moonbattery against the Marine Corps.

“The Power to Save the World”

Not in any eternal sense, just the here-and-now physical world we live in.  “The Power to Save the World” is the title of a book which was published last year, but which I only just learned about from an interview with the author (on the Dennis Prager show, naturally).
In her book the author demolishes every [...]

Those were the days…

Heard an interview on the Dennis Prager show yesterday, Dennis talking with the author of a new book on the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.  The format of those debates was amazing- astonishing, really.  Here’s how they went… and remember, this was in an age before electricity, microphones and amplifiers:
First speaker gets one HOUR to present [...]

“Abstinence Education doesn’t work”.

You could almost hear the crowing of satisfaction with the recently published report that 1 in 4 adolescent girls have a sexually transmitted disease. The opponents of abstinence education could hardly contain their glee.
“See! Proof that it doesn’t work! Let’s get those condoms shipped out, and schedule mandatory school assemblies to demonstrate proper application techniques. [...]

Economic Apocalypse? (Updated)

Robert J. Samuelson’s column in the current issue of Newsweek -”Hold the Hysteria (for now)”- is a helpful counterpoint to the near-incessant drumbeat of doom and gloom from the majority of media coverage on the economy.  A recommended read.
On the topic of economic myths and manipulations, Thomas Sowell’s “Economic Facts and Fallacies” is an excellent [...]

Discovering G.K.C.

Regular visitors to this blog (haha!) will notice some changes. Starting at the top, there is the new name, more specifically identifying my unique locale. The banner photo is a shot of Westchester Lagoon, walking distance from the heart of downtown, looking east towards the Chugach Range. A popular venue for canoeing [...]

S’Prazdnikom! (on the Annunciation)

Just got home from our Annunciation service, another occasion of gratitude for being blessed with having the fullness of the Faith available to me for strengthening and encouragement in the spiritual arena.
It is a feast that I grew up completely unaware of as a Protestant, of course. If I ever had heard of [...]

Theater world mourns tragic loss of great creative genius.

Today is not Easter for us Orthodox, so instead I’m noting a notable piece of cultural news that was lost behind all the Obama-Wright uproar.
David Mamet, who is at or near the top of any short-list of greatest living playwrights, appeared to have committed an inexplicable act of intellectual suicide by “outing” himself as a [...]

Obama- not much change after all.

Every Thursday, Lesa and I have over for dinner an elderly priest and his wife, and he occasionally he brings me a stack of his National Review back issues.  It was amusing to see, among the ones he brought last night, the Feb. 14th cover story: “The March Is Over- Barrack Obama’s Post-Racist Campaign”.  It was [...]