Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

The bigger the better. H/t Instapundit.

News item: “At Wednesday night’s (Feb. 23) regular school board meeting, [Municipal Schools Superintendent Lillian] Torrez said the district’s mask policy will remain unchanged at least until the board’s next meeting, and most likely until after spring break.” Taos News, 3 March 2022. “In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. ThenContinue reading “Those Poor Kids.”

How much longer must this wreckage stand? Taos is blessed with marvelous assets, its stunning scenery, extraordinary history, artiness, quirkiness, even grittiness, the latter distinguishing it most favorably from oh-so-precious, oh-so-exclusive resort towns like Jackson, WY, Lake Tahoe, CA, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, MA, Ogunquit, ME, to name just a few. Grittiness however ends atContinue reading “Ugliness is Never Charming.”

Time to find another profession. From the Post:

“We are a nation of lions and we are being led by a sheep.” —Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas).

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. It’s hardly over, but measured by her heart and spirit, Ukraine has already defeated the Russian host. No matter how much damage and killing inflicted upon that beleaguered but proud people, they have shown both resistance and resilience and world opinion, finally, is overwhelmingly on their side (soonContinue reading “Хваліть Господа і передавайте патрони.”

Would they know “not the sharpest knife in the drawer?“ A blogging colleague recently lamented familiar expressions or idioms are disappearing from our English language, thanks to dumb-downed schooling in this country. Some examples might include: “the shoe is on the other foot,” “strike while iron is hot,” “champing at the bit”and “another feather inContinue reading “Idiomatic Idiocy”

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spentIf the unheard, unspokenWord is unspoken, unheard;Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,The Word without a word, the Word withinThe world and for the world;And the light shone in darkness andAgainst the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the center of the silentContinue reading “Ash Wednesday”

How our elites brought us a war. Your Tatler thanks a family member for alerting him to a superb essay in the Tablet, Ukraine’s Deadly Gamble, written by the always excellent Lee Smith, a veteran blogger-writer on the Internet. It’s fairly lengthy, complex and highly detailed, but essential reading if one wishes to gain aContinue reading “Spoiled Privileged Elites Playing Diplomacy, Destroying Everything in Their Path.”

The smart set says 2+2=5. Instapundit alerts us to an article in Campus Reform announcing a stunning discovery by academics in America’s institutions of higher learning: traditional mathematics is racist. Apparently, certain pointy heads in academe are proposing that “objective mathematics is rooted in ‘white supremacist patriarchy’ and white social constructs.” Who knew? In theContinue reading “The New, New Math, Now with Wokeness!®”