A passage from the book I’m reading, “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers, in the opening pages, that I found evocative in its comparison of Communism and religious faith: [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the […]
This is how I feel about Edward Cullen.
July 15, 2010 by
“Let’s go eat some people!”
July 13, 2010 by
Image via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago, I published a tongue in cheek post poking fun at Twilight and it’s fans…and quickly, my blog’s hits rocketed to new heights…which isn’t exactly saying much. It revealed to me that there’s a bigger world out there than I realized, a world that follows this Twilight stuff, […]
The Last Word on Vampires and the Law…for now
July 6, 2010 by
Ok, I promise this will be the last thing I say about the Twilight phenom on this blog. And I would say anymore, except that a few more things popped up over the weekend, and I thought they merited noting here. Elena Kagan requested that she not be asked about Eclipse during her testimony. Really. […]
How Google Works; or What I Learned Today
July 1, 2010 by
Fascinating. And proof of what a good idea, sufficiently funded, can become. (via PPC Blog)
Twilight and the Law
July 1, 2010 by
Yesterday, I put up a post with a clip from David Edelstein’s review on Eclipse, along with a funny picture of some fully grown women screaming for Twilight (which I have sense learned means they are “Twihards.” Or “Twilighters?”). I wrote the post as a tongue in cheek jab at the new movie, wildly […]
A word on “Twilight;” or who wouldn’t laugh at this?
June 30, 2010 by
A big “Thank you” goes out to David Edelstein for nicely summarizing the exquisite work of modern fiction that is the phenomenon known as Twilight: Back in Forks in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella and Edward repose in a meadow of soft-focus violets, in which Edward, his ivory skin bejeweled under the sun’s rays, asks Bella […]
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