Bookworm Beat 11/25/23: the Thanksgiving Hangover edition
“Insert something clever here.” I tried to be clever for my intro, but the world is so crazy now that the memes must speak for themselves without my help.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“Insert something clever here.” I tried to be clever for my intro, but the world is so crazy now that the memes must speak for themselves without my help.
Continue readingYes, times are bad, but Americans are finally seeing the hideous reality behind the left’s carefully constructed patina of virtue.
Continue readingWe are at a hinge point in world history. Things can go terribly wrong, or people can wise up and back away from Armageddon. Maybe memes can help.
Continue readingUntil the West acknowledges the truth about Islam, the 9/11s, 3/11s, 10/7s, and other massacres won’t stop.
Continue readingWe are living in a time of tremendous evil but also of extraordinary clarity. I’m hoping that ordinary people will respond morally. So, let’s get to those clarifying memes.
Continue readingHonestly, I’m not sure how I collected almost 160 memes…but I did, about Biden, Hamas, Israel, Leftists, and the general chaos of America in 2023.
Continue readingIslam, Hamas, Biden, leftists generally… They’re all swirling together in one giant intersectional mess. Before I swing into the memes, a couple of notes. First, I mean it about the intersectionality issue. Usually, it’s pretty easy to categorize memes so that they flow together. This week, though, I struggled to
Continue readingA historian bows to the politically correct mob to bastardize history. Nic Butler is Charleston County (South Carolina) Public Library’s (CCPL’s) resident historian. He is a middle-aged white male who is quite competent at his job, and reading his weekly CCPL blog, the Charleston Time Machine, is usually enjoyable and
Continue readingHoliday & Observances: Martyrdom of King Charles I of England Major Events: Execution of Charles I, Hitler appointed Chancellor, Ghandi assassinated, Tet Offensive Notable Events: Cromwell’s head on a spike, Eighty Years War, 47 Ronin, Attempted assassination of Andrew Jackson, Extermination of the Kulaks, MLK Jr. Bombing Incident Born: Franklin
Continue readingHoliday & Observances: Feast of St. Francis de Sales Major Events: Praetorian Guard Assassinates Caligula, Sunni-Shia Divide, California Gold Rush Notable Events: Fatimid Caliphate, Conciliar Movement, Corvinus crowned King, Cavalier Parliament, Boy Scouts, Income Tax, Goldsboro B-52 Crash, Ted Bundy Born: Hadrian, Frederick the Great, Charles James Fox, Neil Diamond,
Continue readingIt matters that the Church of England came out in favor of heterosexual marriage, for marriage is a bulwark protecting girls from Islamic sex trafficking. A few days ago, news broke that Manchester had joined the list of British cities in which gangs of Muslim men (mostly from Pakistan) systematically
Continue readingHolidays & Observances: Feast of Anthony the Great Major Events: The Battle of Cowpens Notable Events: Menorca, St. Marcellus’ flood, Avignon Popes, Huguenots, Mahdist War, Monte Cassino, Raoul Wallenberg, Palomares Incident, Born: Antonio del Pollaiolo, Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë, Al Capone, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Muhammad Ali, Died: Theodosius
Continue readingFeast of Adrian of Canterbury, Massacre of Jews in Basel, Switzerland, Britain introduces the income tax, Joan of Arc, Horatio Nelson, Daguerreotype photography, Star of the West incident, Battle of Gallipoli, iPhone Holidays and Observances on January 9 Feast of Adrian of Canterbury (memorial). Adrian of Canterbury was born about
Continue reading9th Day of Christmas; Feast of Sts. Basil & Gregory, the Reconquista of Christian Lands, 2nd Battle of Trenton, Big Bottom Indian Massacre, Barbarian Migration into Rome, Luna I Spacecraft, the Yorkshire Ripper, and more. Holidays and Observances on January 2 Today is the 9th Day of Christmas Feasts of
Continue readingA look at some of the history and holidays on December 5 Holidays & Observances on December 5 Feast of St. Crispina, an African noble woman and mother who adopted Christianity and was executed in 304 A.D. for refusing to make offerings to the Roman gods during the Diocletian Persecutions.
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