Browsing Archive: December, 2011
Posted by Roger Boylan on Sunday, December 25, 2011,
Glædelig JulJoyeux NoelBuon NataleFeliz NavidadBoze NarodzenieSrozhdestvom KristovymAll of which is to say:
MERRY CHRISTMAS! Continue reading ...
Posted by Roger Boylan on Friday, December 16, 2011,
Few public figures felt as necessary to me as Hitchens. The acidity and eloquence of his writing was a constant stimulus to thought, frequently agreement, sometimes opposition, but never indifference. He gloriously embodied the Burkean ideal of a man of principle capable of following his own judgment, regardless of the opprobrium he called down on himself from those he offended. He had a sharp, very English sense of irony, as well as a bawdy (and equally English) sense of humor, both of which... Continue reading ...
Posted by Roger Boylan on Wednesday, December 7, 2011,
I happened to be driving behind a Mercedes bearing the license plate "WW2 Veteran" the other day; it occurred to me that it might be the last such license plate I ever see. At the wheel was the veteran in question.He had to be at least 84, if he was 18 in 1945 (he was driving perfectly well, incidentally). When I was born, he would have been 24 or so, one veteran among tens of millions, many of whom were back in uniform, in Korea. Now, the Department of Veterans Affairs estimates there are fe... Continue reading ...
