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Pravda vítězí–Truth prevails. From Slipped Disc: “PRAGUE PHILHARMONIA PLAYS TONIGHT IN TAIWAN, SAYING FU BEIJING.” The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra arrives in Taipei today to perform Dvorak’s New World Symphony on Taiwan’s National Day. The orchestra has been banned from China since 2019 after the Mayor of Prague refused to recognize Beijing’s ‘one China’ policy. AtContinue reading “Czechs go where Londoners fear to tread.”

The latest of the continuing assaults on the Catholic Church, by Catholics. Reader GWR kindly sent your Tatler a link to a superb self-described polemic by retired Prof. Dr Larry Chapp of deSales University in his blog Gaudiam et spes. It is noteworthy, paradoxically, for both its savagery and elegance, and the author nicely laysContinue reading “The Synodal Way to hell.”

People of color: neon green. It’s telling these criminals in the New York trains have so little fear getting caught they dress in a manner making them detectable from a full city block. Or else they’re just stupid. Perhaps a bit of both. h/t LCH.

The world’s greatest opera company. Less than satisfied with his playing of the organ at mass this morning, Bickerstaff decided the best way to nurse his wounds was to relax the rest of this cold and rainy day (a rarity in Taos)–practicing could wait til tomorrow. So determined, he lit the fire, brewed a potContinue reading “Attending a Met matinee from afar.”

As the English bishop complained to his Catholic counterpart and friend: “We send you our best and you send us your worst.” For some reason your Tatler is on the e-mail list of St Thomas Church in the City of New York (Episcopal), this despite having quit that congregation long ago, before there even wasContinue reading “Holy Church suffers sad but not-too-great loss.”

Not audiences, but artists and administrators. This is getting so tiresome. Your Tatler was notified the excellent Taos Chamber Music Group, a first-rate ensemble made up of members of first-rate orchestras, was giving a performance in the superb recital hall of the Harwood Museum in Taos. This particular program was gratifyingly original, Sounds of  Shakespeare, withContinue reading “They just can’t give them up.”

Cleansing themselves by being yelled at. Kathleen Anderson of The Political Insider has uncovered a new trend among white upper class liberal women of Canada (a trend that will most certainly make its way south), who are looking for new ways of self-flagellation (metaphorically, of course) to assuage their guilt being born the wrong color.Continue reading “Non se sum dignus ut intres sub tectum meum.”

Seeking the dead among the living. From the Daily Mail: ‘She was clearly on top of his mind:’ White House says Biden, 79, looking for dead Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski was ‘not all that unusual’, says Americans ‘understand’ and insists it wasn’t a mistake in utterly ludicrous defense of blunder. What mind? Or: If heContinue reading ““. . . or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead . . . –Deuteronomy 18:11.”

Why is the fox in the hen house? As Russia threatens to use nukes against the U.S. “if the West attacks Russian territory,” a disturbing story has come out in recent days detailing the recruitment of over a hundred Chinese scientists who had worked at the nuclear research lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory inContinue reading “Another scary story, closer to home, but an even scarier story is not in the headline.”