Has-been Arnold Schwarzenegger, a once-upon-a-time enthusiastic Republican and Trump supporter, inexplicably endorsed Kamal Harris for the presidency, accompanied with some senseless mumbo-jumbo. And while it’s every American’s right to endorse whomever he pleases, for any or no reason, when you’re a celebrity, even a tire, old hack, Arnold, you are not free to escape commentaryContinue reading “Nobody cares who you are anymore, Arnie.”
Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain
TLM redux?
From OSV News: [T]raditionalist Catholics in France are discerning a new idea: a personal ordinariate for Catholics devoted to the older Roman liturgical and sacramental forms that could give them pastoral stability and a bishop who could speak for them and be directly responsive to the Holy Father. No longer outcasts? (Note: it’s time toContinue reading “TLM redux?”
Throwing it back into the doddering old fool’s face.
From the New York Post. Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck. ‘How do you like my garbage truck?’ Trump, who was wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters while sitting in the passenger seat of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck cruisingContinue reading “Throwing it back into the doddering old fool’s face.”
A dazzling display of oratorical prowess.
Demosthenes has met his match. With thanks to Not the Bee.
Gigglin’s Island
Sieg Heil!
Seht die neue Nazi-Partei!
A single paragraph says a lot about the regrettable state of US Catholicism today.
A survey from the Pew Research Center published last month revealed that 52% of Catholics plan to vote for Trump while 47% back Harris. New York Post, 27 Oct. 2024
A dubious or worse endeavor is at last coming to a merciful end, albeit slowly and painfully.
One, Many Cardinal Fernández Fiascos
Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.
With technique and intellect essential to playing the often fiercely difficult works of Brahms, including the two above works, Vogt and Brahms were a perfect match. If some critics complained about his sometimes quick tempos, it behooves us to remember the alleged quip made by the great virtuoso pianist of a century ago, Moritz Rosenthal,Continue reading “Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.”
All for nothing?
Your Tatler has come to the conclusion that the “Synod on Synodality” happening in Rome, in addition to its preposterous name, is a waste of time and money. The conclusions being reached seem like obvious ones and if there is anything new coming out of it, this blogger has yet to see them.
THE TAOS TATLER. 