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Never knighted by the King of England, but knighted just the same. Interesting piece in Columbia Magazine, the organ of the Knights of Columbus, in which your Tatler learns G. K. Chesterton, while on a tour of the US in 1921, gave a lecture at Yale, which one might expect, but later, and somewhat surprisingContinue reading “A Grand Knight: G. K. Chesterton.”

A new direction for our Vice President. This time, for the first time, our Vice President departs from the relatively free and easy form of free verse and tries her hand at the tight and disciplined strictures of pentameter (sort of, if you kinda squint your eyes). In your humble correspondent Bickerstaff’s opinion, she succeedsContinue reading “The Bardess of the Beltway Crafts a New Pearl of Poesy.”

Bickerstaff is not a fan of soccer, which he regards as one of the sillier sports, where players are pointlessly (often in both senses of the word) prohibited from using their God-given upper limbs while in play. Nevertheless, congratulations are in order to England’s Lionesses, a women’s soccer team (if you’ll pardon the double negative) thatContinue reading “Congratulations to the Lionesses!”

Lee Smith in The Tablet writes the continuing horrors being revealed from Hunter Biden’s laptop are far more damning to the security apparatus of this country than to the two-bit player and slime bucket himself. It seems every national security agency, as well as most major media, have been aware of the corrupt international undertakingsContinue reading “Noted with Sorrow, “The National Tragedy of Hunter Biden’s Laptop””

Though however disagreeable that scent is to some, it is perfume to others. From the Epoch Times: The Biden administration is set to close four wide gaps in the U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, to ‘address operational impacts’ and ‘immediate life and safety risks.’ The four gaps are withinContinue reading “The Odor of Democrat Desperation in Washington is Detectable 2000 Miles Away.”

Statuae delendae sunt. Published back in 2017 in Crises, the author essays the then nascent trend, now in full swing, of the liberal [sic]-left  expunging those parts the American legacy they find “problematic,” which seems to be most of it. While the scope of whitewashing (to pardon the expression) is vast, pulling down, knocking downContinue reading “Noted with Pleasure: The Mindless Iconoclasm of Our Age, by Fr. George Rutler.”

From Fox News: Twitter blows up over Kamala Harris introducing herself with ‘she/her’ pronouns, description of her clothing. Admirable as our Vice President’s strivings for inclusivity, diversity and equity, ensuring safe spaces for all in the aftermath of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and its effects on the disabled are, she nonetheless in aContinue reading “Kamala’s Otherization.”

From Not the Bee. More at the link if you must. –h/t FWIW.

They’ll stop only when stopped. The Wokes’s campaign to ruin childhood scored a short-lived conquest last week when Crayola, the crayon maker whose customer base is mainly kids aged two to ten, decided it would be just ducky to use the creature seen above in a PR campaign on social media. According to TheBlaze, CrayolaContinue reading ““Just Let Them Be Kids!””

ASHISH JHA: Biden "ate his breakfast and lunch fully. He actually showed me his plate!" pic.twitter.com/sOgUzbto2W — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2022 Also, did he throw his plate on the floor? How long will those horrid chuckling reporters keep the pathetic charade going? —Thanks to FWIW.