Scrambled. On
Townhall this week is an insightful and damning
column about Obamian policy toward Latin America, particularly valuable for it's coverage of the latest goings on in Venezuela. Couple it with the threats of cutting off aid to Honduras that have been coming out of State, and you are left to conclude that Mona Charen is right. They just don't know who our friends are.
Revoltillo. On the domestic front, last Friday's
column by Don Gainor is a must read, if only for its opener. Yes there is revolt in the air, Kennedy demise or no Kennedy demise, and the internet helps fuel and foment it. It seems that the Dems taught bloody instructions when they went after Bush with the long knives. (Allusions, anyone?) Payback is no lady.
Benedict. I've brought up the great question as to what's killing the honeybees, a more immediate concern than global warming. From the
AP via
Fox comes the
latest installment in the mystery. Stay tuned. Even the last installment from Laurie King,
The Language of Bees, set in the Victorian world of Sherlock Holmes has as a central motif the dying off of hives.
Poached. Although the core of
this effort by Stanley Fish in the
New York Times revolves around a report by ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, as to what should be taught in colleges, including a discussion of his differences over the specific content to be taught in literature classes, it is worthy of a read if only because of what it conveys about the teaching of writing. Brain food.
Hard-Boiled. Every once in a while, I promise myself that I'll read something of note, something deep. I carry around in my purse a dog-eared list of CS Lewis' titles I mean to read some day. Guess I'll have to add another one from this book review in
The Weekly Standard. Guess I should start with the Chesterton book; I've only ever read Father Brown (?). Geesh, they're so erudite over there.
