I couldn’t find the article myself, but Wall St. Journal’s Opinion Journal had this precious quote from an AP story about the slowly declining French riots:
Youths set fire to 374 parked vehicles before dawn Sunday, compared to 502 the previous night, police said. A week ago, 1,400 cars were incinerated in a single night.
If […]

Well, it has decided to start being November, so this is the last color I’ll get from my garden till next year.. I had the nerve to plant these two tall cosmos plants so late in the summer that they had to rough it out in September and October when all other cosmos plants have […]

Here’s the full transcript of the speech I heard on Friday. But here are the best parts of it, IMHO. Good stuff, man.
… Our debate at home must also be fair-minded. One of the hallmarks of a free society and what makes our country strong is that our political leaders can discuss their differences openly, […]

Turned into Rush and he’s live-streaming a Veteran’s Day speech by Bush. I don’t know where he’s speaking (I’ll find out at the end, I’m sure) but it’s just a great speech. It seems that someone told Bush — or he told them — that it was time to stop just letting anti-war folks with […]

The way this blog works is that if I want to add a quote to the “A Word” section in the right column, I have to publish it as an entry first. And I’m also a little hindered by the fact that only short quotes will fit.
So I’ve entered two quotes in entries below and […]

There is no room for compromise in matters of the Orthodox faith.
– Mark of Ephesus

Have great care of your children . . . Teach them to love truth.
– Elder Macarius of Optina

Well, shoot. Awful glad today that I’m not a Calfornia native anymore. Stuff like these ballot defeats really gets me down.
Voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 76, the governor’s centerpiece proposal to slow the growth of state spending. Proposition 77, which would have redrawn legislative and congressional districts, was knocked down by a similar margin.
Failing by slimmer […]

We checked into the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago for a four-day weekend. Greg’s travel schedule and the whole jetsetter thing have their disadvantages, but then there are possibilities like this and you forget the bad stuff. It’s just for fun, based on finding a couple bargains on the airfare and hotel and on knowing […]

Where’s a dog to look first? I took Clementine out on the rare Morning Walk just because I wanted to get some shots of some of that amazing early light through the leaves. Plus with Clem’s blue-tick fur, I thought she’d be an interesting contrast against the leaves.

Well, mission accomplished and all that, but Clementine […]