I've documented on this blog and related ones some of the "interesting" business trips I have taken, especially outside the US. One of those took place in 1980, when my brother and I, fresh from an offshore technology exhibit at Earl's Court, took a plane to Hamburg to meet with a prospective German representative for …
John Chrysostom on the Sacrifice of the Mass
As a follow-up to this, from his Homilies on Hebrews: What then? do not we offer every day? We offer indeed, but making a remembrance of His death, and this remembrance is one and not many. How is it one, and not many? Inasmuch as that Sacrifice was once for all offered, and carried into …
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It Is Gordon Brown's "Joe the Plumber Moment," Only Worse
Janet Daley at the Telegraph is right about this: What Gordon Brown did was to insult a quintessential Labour supporter for expressing opinions that are probably held by three quarters of the white working class core vote. That is a whole different ballgame – and its consequences are likely to be irreversible. It's one thing to insult …
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Homosexuals and Paedophiles Not in League? Back in the Old Days…
...things were different, as Le Salon Beige reminds us, in this quote which appeared in a French gay magazine in 2001: In France, homosexuality comes from a pedophile culture with André Gide. In 1968, there was even a pederast revolutionary action committee. In the speech of GLH at the start of 1975, there is a …
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Valedictory or Salutatory Speech Politically Incorrect? You Have Options
It's that time of year when schools of all levels put their paperwork in order, produce large numbers of high quality pieces of paper (PETA hates it when we say this, but they're called sheepskins) and hands them to those who have endured to the end. This is otherwise referred to as graduation. It used …
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Rubio and Crist: The Reality of the Retirement Age in Social Security
Now we have the spectacle of Repbulicans battling it out over Social Security, in Florida of all places: Marco Rubio appeared on a Sunday talk show this month to say something remarkable. The Republican running for Florida's Senate seat suggested we reform Social Security by raising the retirement age for younger workers. Florida is home …
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Environmentalism: You Think the New Atheists Will Take On This New Religion?
Environmentalism is certainly a new religion: America's leading environmental historian, William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin, calls environmentalism a new religion because it offers "a complex series of moral imperatives for ethical action, and judges human conduct accordingly." In other words, issues such as climate change are now much more than about "science." And …
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Publix in Palm Beach: It Was Tricky the Last Time, and It's Tricky Again
Palm Beach mulls the expansion of the popular Publix supermarket: At a symposium Tuesday, residents seemed generally open toward Publix Super Markets’ plan for a new and larger Palm Beach store. Many told Publix officials they want more organic foods and need to know more about the interior plans and product mix. But Publix officials …
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The Second Most Subversive Book I Ever Read
I'm not sure how to react to all of these liberals (like Joe Klein at Time) who call their conservative bêtes noires traitors or seditionists. But since they're going to call us names like that, it's time for this conservative (?) to come clean and talk about some of the subversive material that he's come …
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Nancy Pelosi, Palm Beach and the Strange State of the Rich in an Obama Regime
Nancy Pelosi's "requirement" of numerous police and security personnel on a recent visit of Palm Beach is something that I found curious. But it also got me thinking about the strange--surreal, in many ways--state of our political process. Palm Beach shouldn't be a threatening kind of place for Nancy Pelosi. It's in a house district …
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