…  Bird Photographer of the Year 2023 Winners. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.]

….  Bombinate - Word Daily .

…  Meet the Avowed Marxist Who Decides What Books Go in Your School Library. The disguise — including “Kelty,” an alias — was necessary beca...

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth. — Julien Green , born on...

…   (12) The Poetry of Ernest Hilbert - by Micah Mattix - Prufrock . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) One of the things I appreciate about Hilbert is t...

…  zibaldone: Anarchist shoots POTUS .

 …  Julien Blaine —  Twenty-seventh.

…  CONTRADICTIONS? Moses Did Write the First Five Books of the Bible (And, Yes, It Matters a Great Deal) - HillFaith .

…  Something’s Wrong in Rome. The Pope, of course, is only the Vicar of Christ. A stand-in. Jesus remains its head. And there have been plen...

…   Interstice | Word Genius .

…   Mother Sues School District Over Secret Gender Transition That Led to Her Daughter Being Trafficked. These clowns have to be made to big...

…   Review of "The Fourth Turning Is Here" by Neil Howe | City Journal . Howe’s prediction rests on a model that at its core is ti...

… . Dead West.

… Paul Davis On Crime: Once You've Worked Here, Everything Else Seems Boring .

…   The new age of agitprop - spiked . The results for consumers have been disastrous. In the new media world, all news coverage is geared t...

…   zibaldone: His defection marked the start of Cold War on 9/5/45 .

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby , born on this date in 1916

… Author Richard Rodriguez on the burden of intellectual development.  (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

 …  Bill Knott —  Lesson.

…   Guerdon - Word Daily .

…  What Really Happens When Americans Stop Going to Church . I am a cradle Catholic and I still practice the faith. We have been together si...

 … St. Therese of Lisieux’s shocking perspective on Purgatory.

…  Amid the Horrors of the Holocaust, Jewish Musicians Composed Songs of Survival | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine .

…  Opinion | Is There a Crisis in Cosmology? - The New York Times .

…  Fresh off a Supreme Court Win, the Praying Coach Takes the Field | The Free Press .

…  Something special here for Mark Twain’s many readers.

…   zibaldone: President makes first coast to coast TV broadcast .

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books. — Richard Wright , born on this date in 1908

 …   Kevin Young —  Hum.

…  One of my favorites approves “Project Paperclip”.

… Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading - Moonstone Arts Center .

…  zibaldone: Members of Mark Twain house remember Jimmy Buffett .

…  Could Any Other Jazz Trumpeter Match Up with Louis Armstrong in the 1930s? . (Hat tip, Dave Lul.)

 … Table of Contents — Daniel Brown. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Campus Reform | ANALYSIS: Academics think a 4-year degree is everything, employers disagree .

 …  John Ashbery —  The Sad Thing .

…   Whatever Happened to Light Verse?   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) In his introduction to a collection of McGinley’s verse, W.H. Auden places he...

…  Insouciance | Word Genius .

 …  https://youtu.be/pJ9t6RTBSCs?si=6hZi2KlZRZALOeq8

…   zibaldone: The surrender became official aboard the USS Missouri .

…  Snek in the grass: KY gov may not follow law if McConnell retires Maybe he can’t read. Wouldn’t surprise me.

 I am actually not feeling well. I may blog tonight. But maybe not.

 …  Paul Davis On Crime: A Littler Humor: What Men Talk About At The Cigar Lounge, REVEALED .

… Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher Guerin: Know .

…   “Speak softly and carry a big stick”

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has be...

…  Bromide | Word Genius .

 …  Lavinia Greenlaw —  Acquisitions.

 … written by my daughter, Jennifer Knox. Summer Lightning What were you doing when the lightning came, When the world fairly glistened with...

…  Patriots have “dress rehearsal” for Lexington and Concord.

…  Gadsden flag: How ignorant are the folks running the schools?

 …  My Summer With Leo Tolstoy . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) … At some point I understood I hadn’t made a commitment of time but entered a world. ...

…  Beginning of the end for 70–85 million people.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness. — Blise Cendrars , born on this date in 1887

…  New 'sighting' of Loch Ness monster captured in photos .

…   Paul Davis On Crime: Follow Me To Hell: My Washington Times On Crime Column On Tom Clavin's Book About Captain Leander McNelly And T...

…  Paul Davis On Crime: Free For The Taking? We Need To Crack Down On Serial Shoplifters .

…  Gritty Photos of Life on New York's Subway in the 1970s and 1980s . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

… A Story About the Body . (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

…  Beats connection: Allen Ginsberg’s inner circle – in pictures. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

… ‘Ungrateful Singer’ . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Finnish politician on trial for 'hate speech' for defending traditional marriage - Catholic Herald .

…  Mystical precision | The New Criterion . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) Espaillat’s precision with regard to language exists to show language’s li...

…  Why 1609 Scientists Declared "There Is No Climate Crisis" - The Lid .

…  zibaldone: Emerson tells students to create rather than repeat .

… Jon Voight Drops Rhetorical Bombs on Biden Admin Over Attacks on Trump.

 I have to go out this morning. Blogging will resume this afternoon.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole uni...

…   Vicissitude - Word Daily .

  Discernment Amid the darkness place the sun, That veteran god, from deepest night Evoking brightest day. Make plain Imagination’s ges...

…  Dead Sirius - The Virtual Memories Show News .

…   Is our universe a simulation and, if so, is it breaking down? A quinas and Augustine were pretty sharp cookies. James Joyce read a page ...

…  How to Save Hollywood With This 1 Weird Trick. This isn’t rocket surgery. Some of the biggest box office successes — including the origin...

…   (12) The cult of victimhood - by Tom Knighton . People seem to figure out all the ways they can be oppressed, all the ways they can be v...

…  Climate change outrage erupts when Martha Stewart uses iceberg as cocktail garnish on vacation cruise - TheBlaze . It ain’t Martha who’s ...

…  Arruginated.   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) One of the great values of this huge book, two and a half times the length of  Ulysses  itself, is t...

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good. — Ernest Rutherford , born on this date in 1871

…   twelve books: Why do I focus on twelve books by David McCullough .

 …  Anne Sexton —  Admonitions to a Special Person.

…  the zibaldone reader: Reconciliation rejected because of an improper address.

…   the zibaldone reader: Old couple waiting, watching, without words .

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. — John Gunther , born on this date in 1991

…  Solo Opera Takes on a Big Project With Lori Laitman’s The Three Feathers.   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) “This is a fairy tale that is both arch...

…  Metanoia - Word Daily .

  Pilgrimage Pray the journey lasts long enough To be enriched with lingering detours Along paths beckoning to villages Where time ...

…  the zibaldone reader (est. 1945): Rogers and Hammerstein on the big screen in 1945

…  More than 1,600 scientists, including two Nobel laureates, declare climate 'emergency' a myth | Just The News .

…   San Francisco Police Union Blasts Bakery for Refusing to Serve Cops in Uniform - The Messenger . I hope, if they’re ever robbed, they ha...

…  Associated Press Coverage of Courts, Climate Bankrolled by Dozens of Left-Wing Foundations . Small wonder trust in the media is so low.

 … Biden Lies Again, Says He ‘Literally’ Convinced Segregationist Strom Thurmond to Vote for Civil Rights Act. Even among Biden’s innumerab...

…  221B Baker Street (and more): Here are 9 underrated movies for Sherlock Holmes fans .

 …  How therapy turned on itself.   (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) What’s happened to psychotherapy is, writ small, what’s happened to western educat...

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is l...

 …  Thomas Bolt —  1971 Pontiac LeMans.

…   (12) Bears, Boston and the Gods of the Copybook Headings . We need only look at the treatment of such other topics as crime, terrorism, ...

…  JazzProfiles: PAT MARTINO Along Came Betty . (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  Organon - Word Daily .

…  221B Baker Street (and more): Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance in 1887 .

 I spent the greater part of today being by very nice young gentleman from Belgium. I learned a lot from our conversation

…  He’s still telling us the gruesome truths about ourselves.