The Example of the Traditional Elites

Good or bad example for the commoners?

Swedish Princess Madeleine weds New York banker

She has a FB page. There is also a fan site with photos.



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Lewis, You Lost Me.

I never finished "Generation of Vipers" the first time it was available online. I am watching it at the moment, and Inspector Lewis just called internet trolling, insults, and expressions of hate (~"You should die.") a hate crime. Reflecting the new UK? Would Inspector Morse ever make such an exaggerated claim? Those who would defend Lewis (and the script writers) will say that this reflects the viewpoint of a gentleman, even though he is of a more modest background, but I think it's just PC-speak, again.

Wishing that someone is dead and expressing this to them may be vicious. But to say that such an act should be punishable by law?

Jeremy Scahill, Dirty Wars

Dirty Wars - website

AICN: Jeremy Scahill Talks DIRTY WARS, The Drone Program And Perpetual War With Mr. Beaks
Yahoo News - Q&A


trailer for the documentary:


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Since I was in town, I tried John's Char Burger last night, before the concert. Having read the yelp reviews, I didn't bother to try the fries - just the double super burger and a strawberry shake. The burger tasted better than Bob's Giant Burgers - less of a charred taste, the quality of the meat was probably about the same. The taste actually reminded me of In n Out; there was a bit of a sour taste to the meat, but that's not atypical for burgers, apparently. It can't compare to the steak I had the night before.

How Sexist.

Welmer, On “Natural Roles”

Related:
Rise in Female Doctors Has “Unintended Consequences” for Britain’s NHS

See also Vox's letter to a young woman and the response by someone else.

An Interview with the Spiritual Father of the Solzhenitsyn family

“There’s Plenty of Freedom, But Little Truth”: Solzhenitsyn Remembered by Archpriest Nikolai Chernyshev

The full text of Solzhenitsyn's "Harvard Address": A World Split Apart

Christopher Dawson, Historian of Christendom

Christopher Dawson's Christendom by Bradley Birzer (also posted at CWR)

QSB tonight in Livermore. I couldn't make it to their appearance in Monterey last year; I'm glad I could catch this one. They did sing this song tonight, and it was one of my favorites -


As an aside: Men do rank women in terms of attractiveness, and when the sisters are alike in appearance, it is even easier for them to make comparisons.

Paul Craig Roberts on Finance and Liberty

(via PCR)

D-Day

Veterans gather on French shore to mark D-day anniversary
D-Day anniversary: Photos from Omaha Beach, World War II
D-Day Anniversary 2013 Marked With Ceremonies, Fireworks In Normandy







National D-Day Memorial
U.S. Army

D-Day vet: “We made a difference”
Remembering D-Day: As WWII veteran ranks thin, those who remain recall invasion


Major Dick Winters, who was featured in HBO's Band of Brothers. He passed away in 2011.


Major Dick Winters Memorial Service in Hershey, PA


Uhmerica Today:
They Say They Want a Revolution by Scott Locklin
Boys against girls.

A New Book by John Senior

The Remnant: The Remnant Press is Proud to Announce Publication of Our Newest Title
The Remnants: The Final Essays of John Senior
Foreword by Andrew Senior

Zenit: Pope Francis to Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy: "Careerism is a Leprosy"

The full address.

Kirkpatrick Sale Reviews Most Likely to Secede: What the Vermont Independence Movement Can Teach Us About Reclaiming Community and Creating a Human-Scale Vision for the 21st Century

TAC (via Mark Mitchell)

Chelsea Green

The combox is filled with comments by nationalists who have an undying devotion to the unitary nation-state. To be expected at TAC - maybe those who are more sympathetic to the viewpoints presented by TAC don't bother to participate in the combox. Are they doing enough in their own lives, though?

Doing What It Takes - Get Out Alive Promo

Bluegrass Today: Della Mae guest on On Point by Richard Thompson (podcast link, which should provide this episode after tomorrow)

Great Gatsby Theme Photoshoot for Miss USA by Fadil Berisha

If you don't want to click through the pageant website, you can see some smaller photos here. A glamour shoot for a beauty pageant, they're supposed to look good, right?

Items of Interest, 5 June 2013

5 reasons why the US will never again see economic growth by Lindsey Curren

The World Economy Is a Ticking Time Bomb (and The Fuse is Burning) by Richard Eskow

Dmitry Orlov will begin a new series of posts discussing the features of "Communities that Abide" - in his preamble he talks about his recent encounters with American feminism.

A perhaps unexpected perspective on immigration:
Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons by Herman Daly

Freedom and the Family: The Family Crisis and the Future of Western Civilization by Stephen Baskerville

Michael Avramovich has begun a series of posts on Common Core:
Common Core Educational Standards: Federal Government Power Grab?
Part 2: Common Core Literature Standards
Part 3: Common Core Math Standards

TED: Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley


Donald Kagan:
Ave atque vale by Donald Kagan
Upon his retirement from Yale, Donald Kagan considers the future of liberal education in this farewell speech.
(Open Yale Courses | Introduction to Ancient Greek History - intro)

His farewell lecture:
Yale's Donald Kagan, a lightning rod to the nation, retires





Parts 3 and 4, 5

Interview: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Why Choose a Catholic College?
By Most Rev. William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore


James Kalb
Unlearning the Errors of Our Secular Age
The Idea of Catholic Society

Free the Animal: Unplugging the Internets (see also Addiction by Design)

Liberty, Technology, and the Advent of Social Networking by Gladden J. Pappin

How Two Plant Geeks Grew a Permaculture Oasis in an Ordinary Backyard

Place, its Importance, and its Limits by Bruce Frohnen

Pieces related Rod Dreher's book about his sister: A Small-town Saint for a Placeless Age
The Limits of Place by Mark T. Mitchell
Place Isn't Just Geographical by Jeffrey Bilbro

AoM's list of best westerns.

The New Miss Korea

official website

Miss Korea 2013 Crowned


I saw someone comment on FB with the hope that she's not "fantastic plastic."

Chosun Ilbo
Korea Times
Gulf News
Global Times

Making a Case for Cosmetic Surgery (via iamkorean.com)

I guess K-Town is no longer in production?

It's a nice anecdote...

But I thought the Orthodox didn't like liturgies without congregations?

The Priest Who Did Not Want To Serve The Divine Liturgy
THE PRIEST WHO DID NOT WANT TO SERVE THE DIVINE LITURGY

We are amused.

Westminster Archbishop backs bid to bring Ordinariate to every parish

And yet, it is so difficult to be as generous with the EF of the Roman rite? Perhaps there are less people who have a particular devotion to the EF than during the days of Cardinal Heenan, but given the continued presence of the SSPX in the UK, why can't the hierarchy reach out to traditionalists as well?


Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in the U.S.

Pope Francis on the Culture of Waste

Today's General Audience - Asia News: Pope: counter the culture of waste, man not money must "cultivate and care” for Creation
Vatican Radio
Zenit text.

Rome Reports:

wth?

I was doing a search last night for Ukrainian divine liturgiese to get a feel of what their sacred music is like - sounds like 19th ce choral music, similar to what you might find in Russian liturgies? I came across this taken at St. Joseph Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois. Is that a woman posing as a deacon? Later in the video you see some Plus altar girls? Or are they femine-looking boys with long hair? If they are female, then it just shows that no church in America is immune to the pressures of egalitarianism. (Except maybe the Orthodox, for now.) Disappointing.

More on the Ukrainian Catholic Church and Inculturation:
UGCC SURPRISED THAT STATE CELEBRATION OF 1025TH ANNIVERSARY OF BAPTISM OF RUS WILL BEGIN IN MOSCOW
WITH WHAT SHALL WE EVANGELISE? UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLICS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH by Ft. James Siemens
I posted this already: A BRIEF REFLECTION ON THE URGENCY OF LANGUAGE AND INCULTURATION WITHIN THE UGCC ABROAD

Cardinal Koch Visits Ukraine to Deepen Catholic-Orthodox Dialaogue
Vatican Radio

Interview with Ron Maxwell

American Lifestyle - pdf

EWTN: Mass of Ordination & Installation of Michael Barber - 5th Bishop of Oakland

I already posted a link to the Vimeo videos here.

Unintended Consequences of the Liturgical Reform

The Low Mass has become the preferred form (i.e. no music) for many, not just the elderly. Given what has passed for "sacred" music in Uhmerica for the past half-century, this should not be surprising. The "low mass" seems more "reverent" because modern music is not there to distract. One is able to enter into the prayer, despite the purported weaknesses of the Missal of Paul VI or the perhaps less than ideal translation.