‘Scared to go to school today’: Students, parents tweet worry, fear as kids head back to school
We return today, full of life. Be thankful.
Local Theater Review: Chekov’s The Seagull
Written for local news web site The Dagger: Chekov’s play, a drawing-room tragedy about a group of actors, writers, and other intellectuals taking a break at a lake house, bristles with all the frustrations of the artistic temperament. The characters denounce, declaim, and threaten to decamp, yet somehow find themselves again in each other’s company… Read More Local Theater Review: Chekov’s The Seagull
And the Abyss Opens Up….
18 dead children. Jesus wept. And 22 injured in an attack in China. With a knife. Madness. Unfathomable. Do not ask why, because there is no why. Evil bursts forth from time to time is all. But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with… Read More And the Abyss Opens Up….
I’m Not a Particularly Good Catholic
Which is why it took Stacey McCain’s epic blog post on Anne Hathaway’s wardrobe malfunction to remind me that I should follow His Holiness on Twitter. Something to confess this Saturday before Armageddon arrives the following Friday. Mea maxima culpa. When this story first trickled through the media, it was reported that the Pope would not follow… Read More I’m Not a Particularly Good Catholic
New Victories in the War on Women
Patrick Moran, who gained himself some notoriety when he was caught in a video sting conspiring to steal hundreds of votes in Virginia, just got severely punished for beating the ever-loving crap out of his girlfriend. And by severely punished, I mean plead down to minor assualt and given probation. If you’re outraged by this,… Read More New Victories in the War on Women
Darkness on the Edge of Town: Unions and Islamists Lock Arms for the Horst Wessel Song
Public order and civilization cannot survive when a community feels it is entitled to commit violence when it is thwarted. Instapundit links the story of an Egyptian ex-diplomat who was kidnapped and beaten by the Muslim Brotherhood amid the continuing chaos of Egypt. “They captured me, they dragged me and beat me all the way,”… Read More Darkness on the Edge of Town: Unions and Islamists Lock Arms for the Horst Wessel Song
Go Ahead. Pretend This Isn’t Exactly How it Works.
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I am a Fragment Playwright
Glass Mind Theater is a troupe of Hip Young Gunslingers that likes to bring the “play” back to playacting. They recently did a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (featuring the lovely and talented mother of my children) which made me enjoy and think about that odd little fairy romp in new ways. So… Read More I am a Fragment Playwright
Dave Brubeck was Still Alive?
Apparently so. 91 years old. (via Ace) This is the face of a man entirely happy with his life. The fact that “Take Five” is the best selling Jazz single of all time is one of those things you would never have guessed, but sound completely apt once you hear it. Of course. What else… Read More Dave Brubeck was Still Alive?
The Magic of Teaching
At Other McCain, we confront feminism constructing the reality that rapists are rapists for want of enough mass meetings instructing them not to rape. Oh, of course. Because if you sat down a group of 18-year-old males and said, “Hey, guys, having sex with a woman against her will, yeah, that’s, you know…bad” over and… Read More The Magic of Teaching
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