All Purls. No Swine.
The best part of this little video may be the utterly useless Border Collie, who I think might be stuffed. I first "met" Champis the Sheepherding Rabbit over a decade ago, online. What can I say? People send me these sorts of things all the time. I pass them on whenever I can. The audio… Continue reading Champis, The Sheep Herding Rabbit, And Maudie Nichols
The late Mr. Right was fond of observing the irony, as we neared the close of the first fifth of the twenty-first century, that--in a day and age where it was, for the first time, possible to view on film, and to listen on audio to, almost every single event of note from the preceding… Continue reading Quote of the Day: “Truth is the Daughter of Time”
It’s true that I haven’t been able to find a single source pointing me to the place where the putative author of today’s quote said exactly these words, even in translation (perhaps someone could help me out). But they are widely attributed to St. Augustine, and certainly embody the spirit of his Easter Reflections, an… Continue reading “We are an Easter People, and Alleluia is our song!”–April, 2023
Not since Adolph Hitler dubbed Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother "the most dangerous woman in Europe," has an adult human female so triggered the forces of evil. Job well done. Rest in peace, you bloody-minded, bloody difficult, woman.
'Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive,' 'jealous,' 'shallow,' 'vain,' 'boring,' or 'cruel?' Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Overcoming Girly Insults and Dealing With Compliments of Any Sort
Crimenutely. I can't quite believe the flap that's taking place in my native Britain this week over the King's Coronation invitation. First, let me say that I think it's a lovely piece of artwork. Sure, it's being criticized as looking like a page from a child's coloring book, but I think it's delightful. Here's the… Continue reading A Point of (Royal) Order
Lord, it's awful. Decades long abuse. Years long inattention from TPTB. Today, Suella Braverman, British Home Secretary, pledges to track down, punish, and stamp out grooming gangs and stop the sexual abuse of white, underprivileged, English girls at the hands of deviant (important word) Pakistani men. From her lips to God's ears. Meanwhile, a huge… Continue reading Grooming Gangs, UK Edition, and Shame on GBNews
I know many of you know them by heart. I’ve seen some of you say so, on Ricochet, over the past thirteen years. At some point in your lives, you probably had them thrust at you; you might have struggled through them; maybe you cheated with the Cliffs Notes; perhaps you said you couldn’t possibly… Continue reading The First Eighteen Lines: “Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote”
The quote in the title is from As You Like It, but that’s not really the Quote of the Day. April Fool! Today’s actual quote of the day comes from Charles Lamb, who was born in 1775, in London, to a middle-class lawyer’s clerk and his wife, in a house in which he lived in an… Continue reading April 1, 2023: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”