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In your Tatler’s youth, long, long ago, it was the tradition of the family to alternate yearly the locales where Thanksgiving was celebrated; in CT where we lived, and NY where relations lived. At either locale, it was also the tradition after Thanksgiving Supper to play Handel’s Messiah, the version you see above. There wereContinue reading “Thanksgiving Music”

Who knew, there are multiple pronunciations of this most American of holidays, though we big-hearted Americans also permit our Canadian neighbors to celebrate it, but on a different date (25 October in ’25). The New York Post, as is its wont, decided to look into the matter of  pronunciation of the word and turned upContinue reading “Thanks-GIV-ing or THANKS-giv-ing?”

From the Daily Signal,”As part of mandatory diversity training, NYC firefighters are lectured about ‘The Genderbread Person’—a cartoon that explains the ‘spectrum of countless identities’ people can have.” This fireman hits it on the nose: “The Genderbread Person looks like the FDNY got a contract with some activist group who specializes in children’s propaganda.” TheContinue reading “Is there no end to this BS?”

In this morning’s New York Sun: ‘Enough Is Enough’: Lawmakers Seek To Halt Federal Aid to Colleges That Boycott, Divest From Israel  After a bit of editing, an improved headline: Enough Is Enough’: Lawmakers Seek To Halt Federal Aid to Colleges There, that’s better.

Horrid music will continue to blight Holy Mass. Regular readers may recall an earlier post where Bickerstaff congratulated Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of the Diocese of Jefferson, Missouri, for banning some of the particularly egregious hymns often used in the mass. Your Tatler, a former Episcopalian having some knowledge of hymns, praised His Grace on theContinue reading “What a pity, His Grace should have stuck to his guns”

His crime? He decided he did not want to “transition” to a woman. Simon B Amaya Price (above), a student at the Berkelee College of Music, who successfully deals with the difficulties of autism, has met with an even greater challenge. After being in a confused state Amaya Price decided he wanted to become a woman.Continue reading “This poor soul has gone through holy hell”

Don Surber But how dare we criticize the press! Those little flying monkeys work so hard to achieve so little. They could not get Hillary elected and she spent a billion bucks on her campaign. They could not get Kamala elected and she spent a billion-and-a-half bucks on her campaign. Read it all. You don’tContinue reading “Notable and quotable – 3”

A. They both came to the attention of bureaucrat thugs and were thwarted by them, the former fatally. The latter, the good Amish communities, at no profit to themselves, but seeing it as their Christian duty (when was last you heard those words?), loaded 56 busses with themselves and tools and travelled the long rideContinue reading “Q. What do P’nut the squirrel and the Amish have in common?”

A professor [sic] at Georgetown University (formerly Catholic), after learning of the stress and upset her students were experiencing after Donald Trump’s re-election, decided to take action, sort of, which took the form of what you see below: a day long therapy session for her traumatized children. Which begs the question, after these babies areContinue reading “The infantilizing of America”