Trigger warnings for P. G. Wodehouse.

It’s come to this, but has a lot further to go. From The Times. PG Wodehouse is the latest author to have their [sic] work altered after a publishing house edited several Jeeves and Wooster books as part of an effort to remove “unacceptable” prose. The novels Right Ho, Jeeves and Thank You, Jeeves, bothContinue reading “Trigger warnings for P. G. Wodehouse.”

Joe sticks one of his left feet in his mouth again.

You get inured to it after a while–sort of. It seemed harmless enough, people laughed, but embarrassing just the same. The senile leader of the free world confused the name of the New Zealand rugby team, the All Blacks, with the military force created by the British Government’s Royal Irish Constabulary in 1920, during theContinue reading “Joe sticks one of his left feet in his mouth again.”

No longer hiding it.

Why bother? The progressives have progressed so far in their usurpation of the Federal Government these past few years there is no need anymore for them to even superficially pretend even handedness in their one-sided administration of “justice.” Nowadays, when a humanoid such as the one described below commits an unspeakable act, the only penaltyContinue reading “No longer hiding it.”

The emergence of a secret police.

A corrupt and out of control federal agency. Your Tatler happened to watch a superb performance from 2018 of Puccini’s Tosca last night, via the Metropolitan Opera’s Met on Demand. In the first act, the villainous Roman chief of police Baron Scarpio has no qualms staking out the escaped prisoner Angelotti and his accomplice-in-hiding, theContinue reading “The emergence of a secret police.”

Gary Cooper: “The best thing I ever did”

A familiar tale. Another convert, this one far more illustrious than your Tatler, but his tale of conversion as told in this marvelous account, bears similarity to mine. In fact, all the conversion stories I’ve read, from Newman’s on down, have a common theme. Whether the convert-to-be was deeply religious, but of a different faith,Continue reading “Gary Cooper: “The best thing I ever did””