According to biographer Terry Mort, Ernest Hemingway hated war, but knew one had to win once they were committed to a fight. So while part of a civilian patrol between the coasts of the U.S. and Cuba, the author would watch for submarines and plan to hit them with hand grenades when he saw one.
Between Three Lochs
The Eilean Donan Castle
Didn’t That Movie Change Everything?
Filmmakers said The Dark Knight changed how superhero movies would be made in the future, so why haven’t we seen or heard about those new, influenced movies yet? For instance, where’s a good, dark Shazam flick?
I’ll wait for you stop laughing. No, no–take your time.
Steyn on Schulberg
I’d been waiting for a good article on the passing of Budd Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront and What Makes Sammy Run?
Leave it to Mark Steyn.
Note: Distorting Scripture is a sin
Kudos to Dennis Ingolfsland of The Recliner Commentaries for thoroughly fisking a video making the rounds claiming that Barak Obama’s name proves him to be the Antichrist, based on Luke 10:18.
Fourth: Now comes the “slight-of-hand” so to speak. In Luke 10:18 Jesus says he saw Satan fall as lightening from heaven. The video doesn’t give you the Hebrew word for “Heaven.” The Hebrew word for heaven is pronounced like “Shamayim (Shamayah in Aramaic).
Obviously the words “Barack Shamayim” don’t work well with the slander this video is attempting to perpetrate, so instead, the video does a little bait-and-switch by referring the listener back to Isaiah 14:12-19 which refers to the fall of Lucifer (Satan).
If you hold a high view of Scripture, as the person who made this video apparently claims to, you should never, never, never, twist its words and falsify facts in order to make a political point. Shameful.
Collected Twitter Posts
Kevin Holtsberry, who is a good writer and remarkable blogger and commentator, is finding it hard to post anything by Twitter posts lately. Feel free to give him some encouragement on this post.
“Instructional Design”
Our friend Ori Pomerantz has started a blog called “Instructional Design.” I’m not entirely sure what it’s about, but since it’s his, it will doubtless be worth reading.
Hubris alert
In my ongoing effort to overcome the limits of my shyness disorder, and to put myself squarely in a position where failure and humiliation are inevitable, I’ve accepted an invitation (through the good offices of Hunter Baker, who’s written a book called The End of Secularism, in case you hadn’t heard) to become a blogger at Touchstone Magazine’s Mere Comments blog.
That does not mean I’ll be leaving Brandywine Books (which may be good or bad news for Phil). I expect my blogging at Mere Comments to be fairly occasional, proportionate to the frequency with which I have anything to say worth writing. (This qualification doesn’t bother me here, as you’ve already noticed.)
No point looking for anything from me over there just yet. I haven’t even signed up as of now. I’ll do that later this evening, barring a coronary or a home invasion. My plan is to start with a cross-post of my piece on the Great Minneapolis Tornado. This will doubtless provoke numerous angry comments, which will hurt my feelings; I will then retire to my room and refuse to ever post again, and it will be the last anyone hears of me.
But I feel I need to raise my profile a bit, because as far as I can tell the buzz that greeted the release of West Oversea has dissipated like the waves churned up by a very small stone thrown into very deep water, and is gone as if it never were.
Oh, did you know I wrote a book? You can buy it here.
Taking a Breather
Incredible!
Frank Wilson links to “The Narrative,” a presentation on PJTV on the playbook many media outlets use to present their views. It’s incredible. The war against Western culture and by extension the God whose words informed that culture has been waged for decades by the people with the bumper stickers “War is not the answer.”