Christopher Orlet
The magazine of everything alt.country (whatever that is) named after my hometown heroes Uncle Tupelo will cease publication as of May. The wherefore and why is “not simply the well-documented and industrywide reduction in print advertising, but the precipitous fall…
Don’t miss Michael Knox Beran’s City Journal piece that describes how vacuous celebs like Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Bono and Brad Pitt prop up dictators. But, hey, at least they make themselves feel good. And the PR is priceless. Beran calls…
A final word on the Mormons Need Not Apply kerfuffle: I've been receiving a disturbingly large amount of private correspondence like this: Sir:You hit the nail no doubt about it. In my church here in Ky. the amount of people…
A little French cupcake.
Who says Middle English is dead? Iowahawk’s modernized version of the classic Canterbury Tale. A taste: All sondry folke urbayne and progressyve Vexed by Musselmans aggressyve.
Phil: I’m a little surprised you consider the fact that half of American voters probably would not vote for a Mormon is a “petty issue.” To me, this seems HUGE. Imagine if it was said about a papist. The press…
Civil War-era humorist Artemus Ward joked that in Utah everyone marries Young. Today in Utah everyone votes Romney, but elsewhere in the republic they have their suspicions. It now seems undeniable that religion played the key role in Mitt Romney’s…
If Britain were an inmate in a psychiatric hospital (and there is quite a bit of empirical evidence that it should be), the nation would be on 24-hour suicide watch. I say this after coming across this headline in the…
Interesting bit of underreported news from the ongoing trial in Britain of several terrorist suspects. First time I’ve read where Islamic extremists actually insist that “Islam is the religion of terrorism.” More here.
“Sen. John McCain‘s (Ariz.) successive wins in South Carolina and Florida mean he clearly is the front-runner in a two-man race with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Everything is in his favor in the high population states, and he could…
