Si monasterium tuum amas, potes monasterium tuum tenere.
Thank you, “Ed Campion,” S.J. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius, Œc. Vol.
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.
Koala Keshik by @kisroka
The most recent acquisition of the Gallerie Gormogòne at the Castle, commissioned by the Œcumenical Volgi from the Countess von Cséfavlay’s atelier at Withywindles. It is a highly encoded representation of a spell or alchemical process, the details of which … Continue reading →
Parish announcements in Hell. Or…Cleveland.
A Friend of the Gormogons, S.J., writes: For this scumbag. ℟. Oremus. “We would like to thank everyone who contributed to last weekend’s bake sale to benefit our Seniors Club.“Also, our pastor Father Jim was arrested Friday for soliciting a … Continue reading →
Redskins fans vs. Eagles fans
Apropos Jonathan Last’s droll and true comparisons of the Redskins’ and Eagles’ respective fan bases, allow your Volgi to summarize. Confucius says:Redskins fans believe in Santa Claus; Eagles fans, seeing Santa in the flesh, throw batteries at him. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
What is to be done: Egypt
The Czar ponders what might be done with Egypt. In passing, he describes the Volgi as a foreign-policy cynic. One thinks of oneself as an empiricist more than a cynic, but perhaps the eye of the beholder governs. The short … Continue reading →
G5 — Intergalactic Minion Praise
Recently over the transom came this minion memo to Confucius from Darod of Qo’noš, last seen on Twitter hobnobbing with Adam Baldwin. Here’s his missive, translated from the original Klingon. O Luminous One, Congratulations on five years of determined yet … Continue reading →
G5 — Kind words
Letters, telegrams, and Telexes (CASTLEG) of congratulations have been arriving from around the globe. A sample of those from some of our better-known open collaborators follows. Original copies of the telegrams are attached for historical interest. Apologies to future historians … Continue reading →
G5 — Best of the Gormogons — Confucius, Œc. Vol.
Some five years ago, the internal deliberations of the Gormogons were made public on a “blog.” After executing those responsible, we decided to make lemonade of the lemons life handed us. With the blood of the minions responsible. (Dgapo the … Continue reading →
Hollywood, Hitler, and Us
Arts & Letters Daily links to a Chronicle of Higher Education article called, “When Hollywood Held Hands With Hitler,” hyping a new book claiming Hollywood studios somehow “collaborated” with the Nazi régime in the 1930s to stay in the market. The … Continue reading →
Holiday weekend Gormogonica — GorT’s Sleazy Sixties
Very few of you likely know that our staid, dependable, eleven-foot, time-travelling robot, GorT, had a brief déclassé film career. Sure, you all know about his headliner role with Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal in The Day the Earth Stood … Continue reading →
’Puter & Elvis Costello’s «Prophéties»
’Puter, You’re attributing too much foresight to Mr. D.P.A. McManus. The “Arabs” in “Oliver’s Army” are not the lumpen Muslims you talk about. The vast majority of that group have always been Subcontinental, the “blacks” or “Pakis” of the unlovely … Continue reading →
Where Are the Right-Wing Extremists? (Con’t.)
Let your Œc. Vol., offer another explanation. As good minions, you are aware of the Volgi’s Fallacy of Foreign-Policy Egocentrism, in which other countries’ actions are explained deterministically in terms of one’s own. The bottom line of the FFPE is: … Continue reading →
Gormogon Conclave Lottery! Play now! Cheap as free!
Cardinal Stan T. Mannot available for selection Hey, kids, it’s that time again! Time for the 265th Gormogon Papal Conclave Lottery. We may be pulling the strings behind world events, but we let you ignorantly guess as to the outcomes … Continue reading →
In re the alleged serial killer in Oxford
Quoth the Czar: With any luck, Confucius* will write in with some of his copious collection of pet peeves in writing. Don’t get me started. But here’s one: One pet peeve is people who fail to realize that the Oxford … Continue reading →
Benghazi: Scandal < Cover-Up < Defeat < Abandonment < ?
What the hell happened in Benghazi? Even the omniscient* Gormogons are baffled. However, unlike the media, which has looked at the attack and its aftermath largely through the prism of the Obama administration’s cover-up, the Gormogons look to the past. (Or … Continue reading →
Tibetan history, or bad science-fiction novel?
[Byang-chub rgyal-mtshan] did everything in his power to improve the military strength and administration of his myriarchy, but lived in constant discord with the neighboring myriarchs of gYa-bzang and Tshal-pa. His enemy, the dPonchen of Sa-skya, took advantage of the … Continue reading →
Remember to face 53rd & Dorchester when you pray. (UPDATED)
So, Obamalatry now has, one guesses, its own equivalent of the Black Stone of Mecca. Next step, a Kaaba? So, eventually he did rock her world. Two things: Confucius clicked on this video, and it led with a Mitt Romney … Continue reading →
Aleppo, Tashbaan
Minion Nightfly (yes, he’s a superhero) writes: That picture of the citadel at Aleppo seems very familiar… it greatly resembles the description (and the wonderful illustration by Pauline Baynes) of the city of Tashbaan in C.S. Lewis’s The Horse and … Continue reading →
Last chance to see?
Matrakçı Nasuh’s Compendium of Stopping Places of the Campaign of the Two Iraqs of Sultan Süleyman Khan (1537) is an illustrated, first-hand chronicle of Süleyman the Magnificent’s 1535 war against the Safavids, then-rulers of Iran. It is beloved of architectural … Continue reading →
Wisconsin, Salvator Americæ? [MINOR UPDATES}
To: Confucius, Œ.V., ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛, ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛, Kyrgyzstan.From: J, M.D., D.Sith., Castle G, Plateau of Leng, Wisc.Subject: 5 out of 6 ain’t badAll the rest of us have posted today, no pressure, big guy. Ok, fine, as Volgi, Confucius* should take a … Continue reading →
Postoŝako: The Esperantists return
As is well known (indeed, advertised at left), the Gormogons are working tirelessly—though obviously none too effectively—for the imprisonment of Esperanto speakers, for reasons that are largely above you minions’ security clearance. The Czar suggests one here, but is he … Continue reading →
Yes, it’s the “Badger State,” Mitt…
…but that doesn’t mean you’re supposed to call Castle G three times a day. The Doc reminds me that tomorrow is the Wisconsin primary, and as Castle Gormogon’s current location in this dimension is in Wisconsin*, that means we’ve been … Continue reading →
Foster Friess’s joke
Maybe it’s just because Confucius is incredibly old, but he’s kind of shocked by the number of people taken aback by Foster Friess’s unearthing that ancient joke, and moreover that so many people are worked up about it. The thing … Continue reading →
The Gormogon Minion Primary is now open! Vote early and often!
So, kids, Dr. J was tossed the Knowledge Ball over dinner tonight at the Castle and came up with the idea that we should poll the minions as to who the GOP should nominate. The poll’s at left, it’ll be … Continue reading →
Since the Czar asked…
You say “Μολὼν λαβέ” in Russian thus: «Приди и возьми!» We now return you to our regularly scheduled screeds. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Jonah Goldberg: Intelligent Idealism
This appears in the February 6, 2012, National Review, in the little box inset in “This Week.” Thought it would be worth your while. Conservatism is a distant cousin of cynicism. The traditional conservative believes that man is fallen, sinful, … Continue reading →
Club Gormogon — The @MBernadetteE Edition
Chanticleer — Ave Maria/Angelus (Franz Biebl, arr.) Robert Preston — Marian the Librarian Lyle Lovett — Penguins (Sorry, no embedding the last one. Worth the click through, though…) Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Club Gormogon — The Great Grace Edition
This evening’s Club Gormogon show features a lineup in tribute to our hipster-con ninjababe, Great Grace (and the great, graceful, lower-profile KRS). Enjoy the folky-rocky-bluegrassy goodness. Old Hundred — Midwest Girl The Avett Bros. — Kick Drum Heart, Live (15 … Continue reading →
Candidate Taketown Redux: The Clown Car
The Volgi’s opinion remains unchanged, though Santorum’s been better of late. To repeat: Willard Mittens Romney—Brittle weasel. Newton Weltgeist Gingrich—Grandiose flake. Rico Suave Perry—Inarticulate and parochial. Michelle Crazy Eyes Bachmann—Periodically comes off insane. Dr. Strangeron Paul—Periodically comes off sane. Rickroll … Continue reading →
Whalebag, part two
It should be noted that it’s believed our cetacean friends have a collateral relation that still walks on land: the hippo. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Mitte de la Romnée parle français? Mais bien sûr. Et le Triton?
So Newt is running an ad making fun of Mitt’s speaking French, eh? The Volgi carries no water for Willard Mittens Romney, of course, but Newter, please. Confucius happens to have a copy of Newt’s dissertation, Belgian Educational Policy in … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #12
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #11
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #10
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #9
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #8
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #7
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #6
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #5
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #4
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Poŝtosako: Mizerikorda aŭ spionado?
Confucius was enjoying a breakfast of one of the thousand-year eggs he put aside on his fifteen-hundredth birthday when one of our Tcho-Tcho footmen truckled in and, properly averting his eyes, kowtowed and presented Confucius with this letter which had … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #3
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #2
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Twelve More Days of Christmas — Newish Christmas Albums Worth Owning #1
Inspired by Dr. J’s 12 Days of Christmas Music, Confucius says: here’s twelve albums of Christmas music from the past dozen or so years that are worth your while (and money). Of course, this will only bring us to the … Continue reading →
Andrew Klavan: “Wall Street on Trial”
Lovely smackdown of Occupy socialists and corporatist capitalists. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Is conservatism doomed?
Maybe. If this election is the huge, historical deal it’s said to be, with either the ratification of the terminally debt-addicted redistributive, regulatory Leviathan or the last, best hope to reform it, it’s curious that the GOP, as home of … Continue reading →
And a little something ’Puter used to sing in the joint
Because he went down to Houston and gambled and fought. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →And for GorT
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Since Dr. J is kickin’ it ol’ skool…
…as befits his cameo in “You Be Illin’,” here’s another long-form masterpiece from back in said day: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“American Murder Mystery,” blacks, whites, intellectuals, Chris Rock, and why we can’t fix dysfunction
Confucius* linked to “American Murder Mystery,” an article by Hanna Rosin in the Atlantic earlier today, and frankly he’s haunted by it. Mostly because it reflects the dead-end despair of the well-meaning officials who have put their faith in instrumentalist, … Continue reading →
Reporter vs. Genuinely Smart Person
DOWN GOES FRAZIER! DOWN GOES FRAZIER! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Gormogon Primary
Down in the depths of the Gormogons’ archives (still waiting for Marie to graduate and come organize them—we’re trying to talk GorT out of Dewey Hexavigesimal), word has reached Confucius* that the mass of GOP voters are unexcited about their … Continue reading →
By the same token as Occupy Detroit
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Dies iræ
If you drove by Castle Gormogon today, you didn’t see a Stars & Stripes flag hanging from the Volgi’s balcony. You saw a Gadsden flag (at right). In case you did (though the Volgi realizes it may have been difficult … Continue reading →
I’ll show you a place | Where there’s no sorrow or pain
Requiescant in pace. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Neat cover of a song so iconic it’d give one pause to record
Via the Anchoress Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The real problem in Britain…and elsewhere
Bad as the riots in Britain are, what’s most worrisome is the apparent lack of any ideas in the British establishment that could actually make such riots less likely in the future. The Tories seem vacuous, and Labour says, as … Continue reading →
The press and the left
As the Czar points out infra, Professor W.R. Mead makes a very good point about how the media’s uncritical adulation of whatever their heroes on the left side of the aisle do keeps those pols from actually encountering the facts … Continue reading →
Chiba de Colombia
So, a number of sources describe “chiba” as being specifically or originally a particularly strong kind of cannabis from Colombia, so Colombian slang looked like a reasonable place to look. Here are two words, off by a vowel, both of … Continue reading →
More Chiba
Further investigation reveals that there was a slang term for heroin in the 1960s (or earlier) which was “chiva.” Related to “chiba?” Maybe. Confucius is on the case… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →’Puter will be airbrushing this on our airport shuttle van forthwith
From minion and twitteress, MbernadetteE (go follow her, you’ll like her, she’s way nicer than we), here’s today’s Gormogon tribute art. Confucius really needs to get around to opening that t-shirt shop so we can monetize the awesomeness. In the … Continue reading →
Iowahawk’s “Sixteen Tons”
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Left-right-center
Hey, Czar, the problem is that “right-wing” is a really bad descriptor. It’s basically a pejorative, as you note, at this point for “bad people.” But even if we take it a bit more analytically, comparing the European right to … Continue reading →
Malluma tago
Borepatch (see sidebar) sends over a note commemorating yesterday’s sad anniversary. This Day in Geek History: July 26 1887 The first book written in Esperanto, the international language invented by Ludwig Zamenhof, is published. Yes, it’s been 124 years since … Continue reading →
Penn & Teller on vaccination
Confucius is not a doctor, nor does he play one on TV. But, hell yeah. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Saikhan Naadam!
From the Gormogons. Including, of course, Ghettoputer, who has this poster. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“So the Czar is a fascist?” writes a correspondent
Well, no. He is a Czarist, though. The correspondent in question is not at all satisfied with the Czar’s putting the majority of the blame for Mark Fiorino’s difficulties with Philadelphia authorities at his own feet. Quoth the correspondent: I … Continue reading →
Every Ray Harryhausen monster in 4½ minutes
Via Boing Boing. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“The Eye of Sauron has averted its gaze” writes Dr. J
ŒV, Remember when HHS said that they have better things to do: “Instead, we will pursue other initiatives that build on our efforts to increase access to health care providers nationwide.” They’re going to be going more in-depth in studing … Continue reading →
The Gormogons get results—HHS phone scam postponed
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle GIN RE Follow-up on Order [redacted]UNCLASSIFIEDREAD ALOUD TO GPPOST TO BLOG Notorious ŒV, Dr. J. spoke and the Obama Administration timorously quaked in fear. The mystery shoppers have been abated for now. Quoth team Obama: “After reviewing … Continue reading →
Dr. J reports on the Medicare phone scammers
MEMORANDUM RECD Castle Gormogon IN RE Order [redacted] from Confucius, Œc. Vol., commanding Dr. J to report on what it’s like to be spied upon by someone other than Gs UNCLASSIFIEDTO BE READ ALOUD TO GPPOST ON BLOG Dear ŒV, … Continue reading →
Mark Steyn on the Inversion of Rights in the West
Mark Steyn on Free Speech at the IPA from Institute of Public Affairs on Vimeo. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Congratulations on a felicitious quadrennium to the estimable Dr. H. Albertus Boli, LL.D.
…on the fourth anniversary of his Celebrated Magazine from all of us at Castle Gormogon. We swear we intend to renew our subscription, but you wouldn’t believe the mess ’Puter made of the office last Candlemas when he mistook the … Continue reading →
Dr. J posterizes Mo Do
Doc hypothesizes, “I suspect she clings to her Catholic affiliation because the Catholic Church is the only place that serves before noon on Sunday,” and offers her the following message: Doc’s gone to town. ’Puter jumps to his feet and … Continue reading →
’Puter’s girl Mo Do, Po-Mo Ho, in the history of anti-Catholicism
Great article by George Weigel. Read the whole thing, but here’s a bit: Ecclesiastes notwithstanding, there is something new under the sun in the annals of American anti-Catholicism; and that something is the rise of the anti-Catholic Catholics, self-described Catholics … Continue reading →
Always with the grandma-killing, ’Puter
All your points are well-taken, but I’d add two. First, people are sitting around figuring out how to deny care to the Lebensunwerten. That’s what all the end-of-life, quality-of-life, “bio-ethics” discussion masks. It’s all put as voluntary and “compassionate” (benevolence … Continue reading →
Andrew Klavan’s one-state solution
Ingenious! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Volgi should note…
It’s entirely possible he got that pork recipe from the Necronomicon, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, or perhaps a Weber or other grill cookbook… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →“I’ll Fly Away” —Johnny Cash
Premillennial dispensationalism and scriptural crypto-mathematics? No, thanks. The elderly Johnny Cash from the haunted heart of American low-church Protestantism, oh, God, yes. All but the last of these (and some even better tracks not on YouTube) are available on My … Continue reading →
Either someone broke into the motor pool…
…or Dat Ho or Sleestak has been selling some vehicles for cash. Because I’m pretty sure the Czar and ’Puter own or have owned at least three of these vans. We took their keys away. Also, because Vince over there … Continue reading →
Killing Osama
The last photo of Adm. Yamamoto, April 18th, 1943.He was dead by 10:00 a.m. Tokyo time. R.I.P. From the depths of interstellar space, the unusually pensive Klingon, Da’rod of Q’onos, writes in: Most Puissant and Beneficent Volgi, I have been … Continue reading →
Why kill Usâma?
In the previous post, the question is raised: why did we off Usâma bin-Lâdin rather than capturing him and making him the mother of all sources? Of course, Confucius has no greater knowledge than anyone else, but it strikes him … Continue reading →
Quelle domage
Dit M. le Docteur Beauli. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Pakistan, con’t.
One important factor the Czar omits in the excellent post above is that since Partition, almost all attempts to forge a pan-Pakistani identity have focused on the common denominator of religion: the large majority of Pakistanis are Muslim, and the … Continue reading →
Bin-Lâdin, Fucking Dead.
So, here’s some reaction: this is potentially a propaganda coup of the first order. Operationally, it may or may not be meaningful. Remember, as we’ve mentioned, part of the reason our enemies in this war are so fanatical is that … Continue reading →
Keynes & Hayek, Second Round
Un film de Econ Stories. Someone needs to tell my boy Fred to keep his finger off the trigger. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Holy Saturday
Hans Holbein the Younger, Das Leichnam Christi im Grab, Kunstmuseum Basel. Morbid? Indeed. But Holbein’s point was: if you believe in the Resurrection, this is what was resurrected—a wrecked, even grotesque slab of meat that was once a man. Ecce … Continue reading →
Looks like the Mandarin got that Navy contract after all
The Navy for the first time last week successfully tested a solid-state high-energy laser from a ship. The beam, which was aimed at a boat moving through turbulent Pacific Ocean waters, set the target’s engine on fire.The Office of Naval … Continue reading →
Rach with Bach
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Funny, so did I!
Dr. J writes in: I just wanted to let you know, I found 723 absentee ballots for Assistant Attorney General Kloppenberg in the back of my Prius… There seems to be a lot of that going around. Also, ballots that, … Continue reading →
Iowahawk gets visual aids
This classic piece is well-illustrated here: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The inimitable Dr. Boli
Original here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Happy Purim, a little belatedly, from the Gormogons.
Hope it was a good time. Cute song: Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →If I had a nickel for every time this happened in high school.
Ghettoputer’s sisters lost many a donkey back in the day. Now, they don’t have a single donkey between them. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Don’t try to be happy; it’ll make you sad.
On August 21, 1670, Jacques Bossuet, the bishop of Meaux and official preacher to the court of Louis XIV, pronounced the eulogy for Princess Henrietta of England before the Prince of Condé. The Duchess of Orléans had died at 26 … Continue reading →
Cuomo, the Bishop, & Ed Peters
Those of you who follow our occasional excurses into the farther reams of Catholic inside baseball probably enjoyed ’Puter’s cri de coeur against canon lawyer Ed Peters’ complaint that New York governor Andrew Cuomo is admitted to Communion by his … Continue reading →
D—n f—g right it is.
As Congress begins to take up the Obama administration’s defense budget, one item not even under discussion needs to be considered. Events of the past 18 months have made clear that it’s time to rethink the fate of the F-22 … Continue reading →
Background on public-sector unions
There’s a very good set of articles on the front page of the City Journal website. Check ’em out. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →BREAK THEM!
BREAK THEM! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →