Author Archives: Anthony Chase Fountain

Sir Ian McKellen to host Shakespeare play with all trans and nonbinary cast “Twelfth Night is perhaps the funniest and most moving of Shakespeare’s plays,” McKellen said in a social media post for Trans What You Will. “This is achieved through the complexity of gender and sexuality from first to last. I’m really looking forward toContinue reading “What fools these mortals be”

Your Tatler has concluded it was merely a matter of time before a radical like Zohran Mamdani gained prominence in New York. Only a catalyst was needed causing dissatisfied elites to remove the veil from their true feelings how the City was run. That catalyst was Donald Trump, their antichrist, causing, at last, the revelation ofContinue reading “A short aside concerning Mamdani”

The new Archbishop of Detroit, Edward Weisenburger, playing copycat with Bishop Michael Martin of North Carolina, announced in April that he would be making changes in his diocese regarding the celebration of Usus Antiquior, the Latin Mass, which, in his predecessor’s day, was the most liberal in the country in permitting its celebration. The Archbishop wasContinue reading “Detroit Archdiocese, late to the party, axes most celebrations of the Latin Mass”

As reported by ZeroHedge’s Tyler Durden: Pertainent point to be considered: There are violence-prone settlers in the West Bank, both Jews and Palestinians. Are the Christian inhabitants of Taybeh, Ramahla (they are a large minority among the muslim population of Ramalah) assisting in any way violent Palestinians? If so, they have only themselves to blameContinue reading “Disturbing news from Israel”

One of the greatest musical ensembles ever was the Budapest String Quartet, extant for 50 years, from 1917 to 1967. I was a tad too young to have heard them perform in person, but their many recordings give one an idea of their superlative playing. A wonderful quality of the Budapest was their astonishing ability toContinue reading “The excellent Budapestians”

From Newsweek‘s James Bickerton New York City’s Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has said he wants to “shift the tax burden” to “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if he secures election in November. A housing policy document on Mamdani’s official website includes a pledge to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughsContinue reading “Mamdani: There’s bad racism and good racism”

To the surprise of many, an upset took place in the recent New York mayoral primary, with the underdog Zohran Mamdani coming from behind and defeating the party favorite, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo wasn’t much of a candidate, a tired, uninspired hack who rode on the coat tails of his well-known father. His record wasn’t atContinue reading “New York elite’s new boy wonder, Zoram Mamdani”

Pista ni San Juan, Basaan or Wattah Wattah Festival Your correspondent wrote in an earlier post that he had come to the conclusion he would never know all there is to know about the Holy Catholic Church, as he did not have enough time remaining. That said, though, he’s just learned of a lovely, ifContinue reading “A peculiar Catholic tradition in the Philippines.”

“The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: “damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; “all other means ofContinue reading “What the Catechism says about the Iran bombings”

According to Don Surber, Democrats on Capitol Hill have a nickname for Donald Trump: TACO, Trump Always Chickens Out. The silly nickname came about because the president seemingly makes statements saying he will do this or that and then backs off. They don’t seem to understand that Trump is a deal maker, probably because theyContinue reading “Trump: Dems are clueless how he works”