THE TAOS TATLER.

The radical leftists, which heretofore have attempted to disguise their intentions making us all wards of the state, seem to have pulled off their masks lately, presumably because they are confident being open about their plans for us will no longer face significant opposition. I suspect though they are mistaken. Consider this piece in what used to be the relatively mainstream magazine, New York, courtesy of AMAC.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it,” the Book of Proverbs says. To certain right-wing Christians, the concept is simple: A child can be broken, or stamped into shape, much like any domesticated animal. Though all parents hope they’ll pass their values onto their children, for some that hope is more of a mandate.

Do you get the impression this poor dear had a less than happy childhood? Read on.

My own parents believe that Proverbs is the word of God, and they believed, too, that a righteous upbringing would produce an adult in their image. Who can blame them?

Well, you, for one.

The idea that a child should replicate her parents does not belong only to conservative Christianity or to religion at all. A proverb is common wisdom, and lately this one is hard to escape. Authoritarianism is gospel to modern conservatives. Nowhere is that clearer than in their assaults on children.

As opposed to parading drag queens in front of them while they are in kindergarten, or leaning on them to question their sexuality (shh, don’t tell your parents!) and pouncing should they be successful in that, urging on them surgery considered child abuse only a generation ago?

Now, feast your eyes on this scrumptious bit of doublethink.

Like any piece of property, a child has value to conservative activists. They are key to a future the conservative wants to win. Parental rights are merely one path to the total capture of state power and the imposition of an authoritarian hierarchy on us all.

And what exactly do you propose as an alternative, comrade?

Read the rest of this harridan’s screed if you want a chuckle, but it seems to your Tatler the producer of this overwrought bilge is writing in a self-congratulatory mode as if the deed is already done. Judging by the goings-on in most of our public and private schools she may be right. On the other hand, it could be an example of pride going before the fall.

Among the many failings of leftists are their inability to sense when they have gone too far, crossed the line. The two issues that seem to rank the highest with them now are rights for female impersonators (or transsexuals, or, transvestites, or transgenders, or non-binaries, or whatever they’re called this week), and wresting control of children from their parents. Neither of those is finding much resonance with most Americans. We’ll have to wait till the ’24 elections to know for sure, but it could be the long-awaited correction may be at hand.

Oops.

From the Tablet:

ROME (CNS) — A “breakdown in communication” led to permission being given to a group of Anglican clergy to celebrate the Eucharist in Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran, said Auxiliary Bishop Guerino Di Tora of Rome, vicar for the basilica’s chapter.

Anglican Bishop Jonathan Baker of Fulham, a suffragan bishop with responsibility for Anglo-Catholic parishes in the dioceses of London and Southwark that have requested not to be served by a woman priest or bishop, celebrated the liturgy April 18 as part of a conference in Rome for Anglo-Catholic clergy.

That is a serious violation, especially because Bishop Baker not only is divorced and remarried, he is rumored to be a Freemason, strictly taboo in Holy Church, which considers Freemasonry an enemy of Christianity (though that didn’t stop Mozart and Haydn, both observant Catholics, from joining a Masonic lodge in Vienna).

Ed Condon of the Pillar has some guesses how this mishap could have occurred.

Having asked around a fair bit, both in the U.K. and Rome, the best I have gleaned is that it seems likely the Anglican group presented itself to the basilica as a group of clergy on pilgrimage from the “Church of England,” rather than “Anglican Communion,” terminology certainly open to misunderstanding to non-native English speakers.

They might have even described themselves as “Anglo-Catholics,” leaving Italo-Catholics to conclude they belonged to the fully Catholic ordinariate for ex-Anglicans, rather than to the wing of the Anglican Communion which happens to like incense and nice vestments.

In other words, it really was a “misunderstanding,” which to this writer borders on the comical. What I  do not understand however is, since the celebration of the “mass” by the Anglicans must have taken a good long time (as a former Anglo-Catholic I can attest to their length), it’s surprising no one in the Vatican became aware of what was was going on in the basilica. Additionally, there would have been striking differences from the usual Catholic Mass, they being:

1) The celebrant and servers wore beautiful vestments which the Catholic Church shucked years ago, replacing them with those horrid smocks most clergy now wear;

2) While the mass was celebrated in the vernacular, English, it likely was the gorgeous Cranmerian English from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, rather than the bland, and uninspiring English Catholics must sit through every Sunday.

Didn’t anyone from the Vatican step into the church while the Anglicans were celebrating their mass? If he had, for the reasons above he would have instantly recognized something was very wrong and called a halt to it immediately.

Thanks to William J. Tighe.

Mere quibbling, if you ask me..

Top ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski has been disqualified from a recent race after using a car to travel during a portion of the route. Zakrzewski finished third in the 2023 Manchester to Liverpool Ultra—but was reportedly traveling by automobile for 2.5 miles of the 50-mile race.

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That seems awfully unfair. After all, with more and more female impersonators participating in women’s sports, a gal’s got to do something to even up the score with their (formerly) hairy legged competitors.

Wayne Drinkwater, director of the GB Ultras race, said that a runner had been found to have obtained an “unsporting, competitive advantage during a section of the event.”

—Runner’s World.

Pro-life is loving the living, in all shapes and forms.

Your Tatler will not claim to being a fan of punk rock, to put it mildly, but news received of punk rocker Johnny Rotten, aka John Lydon, has made me a fan of his. Here’s why.

Rock star John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, leader of the well-known punk band the Sex Pistols, has lost his wife of over 40 years, Nora Forster, to Alzheimer’s disease. But though many have turned to assisted suicide (or outright murder) to end the lives their spouses with dementia and Alzheimer’s, Lydon quietly cared for Forster with love and devotion.

In a 2020 interview, Lydon said he remained his wife’s caretaker, and that she still lived with him in Los Angeles.

“I won’t let anyone mess up with her head,” Lydon said. “For me, the real person is still there. That person I love is still there every minute of every day, and that is my life. It’s unfortunate that she forgets things; well, don’t we all? … I suppose her condition is one of like a permanent hangover for her. It gets worse and worse, bits of the brain store less and less memory, and then suddenly some bits completely vanish … It’s quite amazing as the alleged experts we have had to deal with at enormous expense have said that they have been very impressed that she never ever forgets me, we are constantly there with each other [in her mind] and that bit won’t go. Why pay for professionals to work on this when I think the message is a bit of love goes a long way.”

It would be interesting to conduct a poll to see what percentage of those who support euthanasia also support abortion. I suspect the numbers would be close to identical, for the two are similar. They both are about the disposal of the those whose lives, for whatever reasons, have become inconvenient to others. Johnny Rotten has shown to the world that while his late wife’s malady was certainly an inconvenience, it was also a blessing, to both husband and wife. In our throw-away society, he has proved himself a prince among men.

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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, both released in 1934, have had passages reworked or removed in new editions published by Penguin Random House to strip them of language that modern audiences might find offensive.

What’s worse, people are actually paid for this Bowdlerizing.

Penguin employs sensitivity readers to vet both new publications and older works for potentially offensive language and descriptions.

Worst of all:

The rebooting of cherished fictional characters of the past has become a profitable industry for publishers, authors and estates in recent years.

So there’s little incentive for publishers’s wrecking crews to merrily continue their sanitizing literary classics to appease the woke brigades, who wouldn’t be caught dead reading them to begin with. What will they come after next? Cookbooks? Dictionaries?

Just ask Steven King.

Hoist with his own petard?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cc452320-daa9-11ed-80bc-e358583c5d62?shareToken=37837410a78034bae399ccbd504ecea1

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 the Irish Civil War. They had a brutal reputation.

The Black and Tans gained a reputation for brutality and became notorious for reprisal attacks on civilians and civilian property, including extrajudicial killings, arson and looting. Their actions further swayed Irish public opinion against British rule and drew condemnation in Britain.

Wikipedia.

When people laugh at the President of the United States, it should be because he made a humorous remark, not a blundering error of the kind Biden makes daily. While the laughing by the Irish audience at Biden’s gaffe was friendly, it still exposes the fact he is not playing with a full deck, with not only the jokers missing but also most of the face cards too.

And note this from the Guardian, a little bit of historical revision:

The White House has corrected a gaffe by Joe Biden that confused New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team with the British military force known as the Black and Tans that terrorised Ireland.

Are the President’s handlers aware the damage to America’s image caused by sending this idiot abroad? Earlier I would not have thought so but the fact they are still doing so suggests they just don’t care or worse.

Thanks to WJT.

Update: Biden to Irish, “Let’s go lick the world.”