The Greek patriarch is mixing it up in Jerusalem?
This latest comes by way of Directions to Orthodoxy. I had been reading on their news page about that patriarchate’s ongoing problems — for instance HERE and HERE – but I can’t make any sense out of it. So analysis welcome on this one.
And meanwhile, over at […]

Quick TV viewing recommendation for tonight: “Penn & Teller’s [Baloney]” is taking on the subject of ghosts and ghost-hunters. (10:00pm ET on Showtime).
The name of the show isn’t really “baloney,” of course. The real word is a certain earthy 2-syllable expression for all things deemed mendacious and ridiculous. I’m not usually shy about using it, […]

I thought it was very timely that today’s Directions in Orthodoxy mentioned that England’s favorite saint is St. George. The article mentions at the end that the dragon seems to have made its first appearance (in the icon and the hagiography) in the 12th century, and might just be a local confusion with a pagan […]

By way of PowerLine, this reminder of another British leader that knew what to say:
This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial […]

First news pictures are coming up.
And by the way, the passion I was hoping to hear from Tony Blair is evident in Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London:
I wish to speak through you directly, to those who came to London to claim lives, … nothing you do, how many of us you kill will […]

An hour later, so I’ve made the rounds of a few blogs.

To judge from this e-mail on InstaPundit from a Londoner near the blasts, they’re having an easier time getting their work done today than I am:
A few blocks away from the initial bomb blast, the offices of my company have remained open. In many […]

Turned on the news at 8 and found that it’s not as bad as I’d first heard, thank God. At that time they were saying two fatalities with 150 injured. That toll will certainly rise, but one policeman hazarded 40 dead, which is still much better than the number I’d been thinking. It seems that […]

Oh no.
Greg came up to bed and told me I may want to get up and make a pot of tea and sit with the TV on. “There’s been a terrorist attack in London.”
Couldn’t think. “What happened?”
“Apparently there were seven bombs on the tube and double-decker buses.”
Still couldn’t think. “Is it … how … what’s […]

This is going to seem like a strange little amassment of stories, but they all seemed blogworthy and I don’t want to wait until I’m less busy to mention them.

(By way of the Drudge Report) So it turns out that circumcision may help prevent AIDS? Okay, I’m not a man, nor have I ever […]

On Friday morning, Greg called to tell me that I might want to turn on the news and check it out because Sandra Day O’Connor was retiring. By early afternoon, he had received a forwarded e-mail from an acquaintance with a petition from MoveOn.org ( — an acquaintance that has a very poor grasp of […]