I've moved house, so to speak...

To Mysterious Things (from M. de Chateaubriand of course).  We shall see.

"And yet, if you reverse the order of the adjectives, you get the progress of the sixties, perfectly delineated."

From Mr O'Rouke's review at the Weekly Standard of three books on Woodstock.

News of Father Foster...

Via Father Zuhlsdorf.

The 'real' revolutionary battle hymn

With thanks to Catholic Church Conservation.

In paradisum deducant eam angeli....

Let us see...

If this is doing what I had hoped it would....

Thanks, Creative Minority Report...

Watched Louis Malle's...

Au revoir les enfants to celebrate my birthday.  And it is a beautiful day.  Went out to early Mass, did my shopping and am now ready for the next fifty two years, I suppose.

Searched at IMDb the two principal actors, who seem to have had middlingly successful years since, the Jean Bonnet as much as a writer as an actor; Au revoir les enfants is notable also being one of two productions in the first year of Irène Jacob's film career.

Was everyone bonkers in Mr Carter's government?

I don't read at the Daily Beast--saw this interview noted at the Weekly Standard: surely it is well nigh unbelievable that Dr Brzezinski imagines that Mr Obama will order that Israeli jets, targeting the Iranian nuclear sites, be shot down.

Merry Christmas!

Intimatio tempus futuri for the New York Times?

Pray for the Iranians

Irving Kristol

Requiescat in pace.

Of Tuscan kale and prudence

Living here in Eugene, this struck a chord or two; from the Cranky Professor anent the First Lady shopping responsibly. I really do agree that locally produced stuff is generally better, and I'm all for the Chief Magistrate and his family doing us rhetorical goodness--but virtus in medio stat and all that.  Cranky Professor is well worth following, ha. He is reading Dante.

To the county fair? I've been to county fairs

One does have to wonder about people who work in the business of caring for those others with insanity issues.