For those of you who didn’t have the four-plus hours to kill to see “The Path to 9/11″, and who couldn’t make heads or tails out of the allegations of Clinton administration alumni who pitched such a fit over it, here’s a cartoon by Michael Ramirez that boils everything down pretty concisely. Link is HERE. […]

On Saturday, Greg and I were in Chicago to visit a goddaughter, and we took a brief cruise that took us down the Chicago River and out into Lake Michigan. The tour guide mostly talked about … skyscrapers. Because we were mostly looking at … skyscrapers.
That was two days before today’s 9/11 anniversary, and […]

The two Fox journalists have been released, and thank God for that. But consider this aspect of their captivity:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Two Fox News journalists freed by militants Sunday described a harrowing two weeks of captivity during which they were blindfolded, tied in painful positions and forced at gunpoint to say on […]

This entry is all about the recent stuff about Tom Cruise, so if that kind of gossipy nonsense annoys you, ta-ta for now and I promise not to do it again. I really understand, because I usually don’t even think about giving a thought to what is making Hollywood headlines. But I find myself a […]

In chanting the paraklesis service last night, my attention was diverted by one verse. From the Hymns of Ascent: “Ye haters of Zion shall be shamed by the Lord; for like grass, by the fire shall ye be withered up.”
Ye haters of Zion …
Those who fit that description these days have a very different […]

My morning readings get a little painful sometimes, but this morning I didn’t know in the end whether I was more sad or glad. I’ll break out the two separately, but the first readings turned out to be very hard.

My idea this year was that besides a New Testament reading and psalm, I would read […]

Orthodox bloggers on the crisis between Israel and Lebanon:

Glad Huw pointed us to the Antiochian resolution:
… we appeal to the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush, to use his good office
1. To bring immediate cessation of hostilities on both sides.
2. To help in the […]

I don’t usually read Wired magazine, because (a) it’s terminally hip and I’m not; (b) it’s so confoundedly geeky that half the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; and (c) being as hip as they are, they insist on doing totally obnoxious layouts with fluorescent orange inks and other tricks that make the […]

Fasting is in, but it turns out that when people in the news fast, you don’t want to blink or you’ll miss it. Silly us, we thought that it wasn’t a fast if it didn’t involve any actual hunger. Thank goodness the worldly folk are here to show us the way.

First it was Saddam Hussein, […]

I’m unclear:

Are we supposed to be afraid that America is going to legalize polygamy?
Am I supposed to be really bent out of shape about that?

I’m late checking out this cover article from a Weekly Standard from June 6, but they seem to think the answers are: (1) yes; (2) should be.

I suppose my […]