Facebook threw up a quotation, from a translation of Dante, that I posted 8 years ago: ”….so that you can understand how love must be The seed of every virtue growing in you, And every deed that merits punishment.” oh gods, how true. Have I cultivated any virtues in the past 8 years? That isn’t … Continue reading Artificially Recovered Memory →

I had a beautiful, fluffy exuberant apple colored Labrador retriever. I say “had” because I still have her, but her beauty and energy are destroyed. I should relate that in February, she had a lump removed which came back from the lab as a mast cell tumor. Our vet put her on a very low … Continue reading Is there a (veterinary) doctor in the house? →

…is my sister’s birthday, and mine is 5 days later. She, and her entire New England world, household, home, family, are entirely gone, sold, dispersed. She died in January 2022, so this is my third birthday week without her. I miss her more every year, every month, every day. I know that soon now she … Continue reading September 13 →

Whooooo hooo! The excitement is palpable. FINALLY a new, young(er) face, a fresh start! Who can resist-let yourself be carried high on the powerful, inexorable tide! Why, this is about HISTORY! Except if course, Hapless isn’t a new face, we’ve been laughing at her for over 3 years, and just a few months ago even … Continue reading Introducing Obamala Hapless! →

Do you love love? Really love it, love thinking about it and doing it and remembering it and hoping for it? If so, I have a book to recommend: Sarah Perry’s Enlightenment. It is ALL LOVE, ALL THE TIME. And it is gloriously long. Although i like the author, I didn’t jump on this one … Continue reading How do you feel about love? →

I think he can! Although the electorate may be a tad slow to catch on that he’s doing it. Blacks and women are hardly under-represented in elected and appointed governmental positions these days. Nobody thinks twice about it, any more than they think of the ethnic origin of a surname. We already had a two-term … Continue reading Can Trump give us a non-racist, non-sexist presidential race? →

I just had an epiphany, grâce à Roger Kimball on American Greatness this morning: what we just saw with Biden and Harris was the opposite of a “coup”, a term which implies a revolutionary upset of the existing order. But, Trump wasn’t wrong to call it that, because a “palace coup”, as opposed to other … Continue reading ”Palace Coup”? →

Last week, we had Trump’s miraculous survival of an assassination attempt: a martyr who didn’t die! And this week, we’re getting Ol’Bygone’s elegiac state funeral—and HE hasn’t died either! Dementocrats who were begging him to get out last week are now crying on the airwaves about his “courageous” choice, his “sacrifice”….he’s much more useful to … Continue reading Habeus Non Corpus: a Living Martyr and a Much- mourned (But Living) Elder Statesman →