There seems to be some confusion about who won last night’s presidential debate.
In my capacity as Final Arbiter, I shall clarify.
John McCain won. He won strong.
No need to thank me. Just doing my job.
Nothing resurrection couldn’t fix
Mickey McLean at World Magazine reports on a Nebraska state senator whose lawsuit against God was recently thrown out of court.
I think I read elsewhere that the senator wasn’t actually in earnest (Gee, you think?), but was merely attempting to make some kind of point.
What kind, I have no idea.
Nor do I care.
Tonight’s the big night. Tonight I get the chance to see the television broadcast I’ve been waiting for, arguably the most important night of TV this year.
I mean, of course, the return of “Pushing Daisies” on ABC.
I wish somebody with Ned’s life-giving touch could give a massage to the McCain campaign.
NYT vs. Palin-Dickens
Olasky writes: “Not only Sarah Palin is running against The New York Times. So is a new musical that opened on Broadway last month, A Tale of Two Cities.“ I wish I could see that play.
Stealing $$ for the Campaign
The Obama campaign is getting money through false credit card charges (or a supporter is doing it for them). From the Washington Post:
Steve and Rachel Larman, a Missouri couple who vote Republican, told local reporters that they found a $2,300 charge for a donation to the Obama campaign on their credit card statement that they could not explain. Patricia Phillips, a Virginia Republican, had a similar experience, she said, when she opened her MasterCard statement last month to discover a $5 charge from the Obama campaign. “I thought, ‘Oh, my! This is not from me,’ ” she said.
Other donations have arrived under such obviously bogus names as Edrty Eddty and Es Esh.
Isn’t this the kind of thing ACORN does?
A Few Words on Poetry
As an example, Judith Fitzgerald points out “Something Antlered This Way Comes.”
Congratulations!
Kudos to Jared Wilson, one of the rising stars in 21st Century Literature. His book on the person of Christ is being published.
“The Wish,” by Johann Sigurjonsson
While I was at Dale Nelson’s house on Sunday, he lent me an English translation of an Icelandic play, “The Wish,” by Jóhann Sigurjónsson, and asked for my reaction. Here’s a link to the text, in the same Einar Haugen translation I’ve got.
It’s a strange play, with considerable numinous power, even in this somewhat clumsy translation (Haugen wrote the textbook from which I learned Norwegian, but he’s no English stylist). It’s a sort of Icelandic Faust story, about a young man obsessed with obtaining knowledge—not for the sake of wisdom, but for the sake of power. He believes that if he obtains access to a certain “Red Book,” which a long-dead bishop took with him to his grave, he’ll obtain total power, not only on earth but in the spiritual realm. Continue reading “The Wish,” by Johann Sigurjonsson
For Consistency in the Christian Life
A devotional prayer from Peter Marshall
“. . . But whether on the mountaintop or in the valley,
may we ever be aware that Thou art walking beside us.
And if Thou art with us,
what difference does it make where we are?”
Reading in Wichita, Kansas
Tony Woodlief praises the public reading program in Wichita, Kansas, and their choice of Willa Cather’s My Antonia.
The Ugly Duchess
New research indicates that “The Ugly Duchess,” a famous painting in England’s National Gallery, and the inspiration for some of John Tenniell’s illustrations in Alice in Wonderland, is probably an accurate portrait of its subject, according to this report in The Guardian. The unidentified woman in the painting apparently suffered from a rare form of Paget’s Disease.
Hat tip: Mirabilis.