The Scratching Post

I've heard all kinds of hand-wringing about Trump caving to Putin over the latest peace plan for the pointless bum fight between UKR and...

 ... if only the Great Men of Europe had been henpecked and whipped and the relationships between the Great Ladies of Europe, the real power...

 ... or maybe cats. A Meeting of the German High Command (with Cats) Berlin, July 1914. A warm afternoon. Sun streaming in. Cats everywhere....

Dig this. Republicans refuse to lower healthcare costs. Older Texans that are too young for Medicare will be hit the hardest. Theresa Heber...

 Sorry for the long hiatus. I'm back to playing with AI (read: ChatGPT) writing fiction. I've discovered a good shortcut is to patte...

The inimitable Victor Davis Hanson summarizes a crucial reason the Germans lost WW II here . If you don't want to watch it, it can be su...

First, here's the context. FRANCE: In Paris, verses from the Quran are now being broadcast on loudspeakers in subway stations. But if C...

It hardly matters whether it's politics or the Church or what have you, the great feminization of America continues apace. This is the p...

 ... need to be nuked from orbit and after that, the rubble (or glass) needs to bounce and just keep bouncing until there aren't two ato...

In our parish, we are participating in the second round of the synodal process which is being hyped by Catholic leadership. It's like dy...

 ... for real, I am sure of it. But those conversations, I believe, are limited to those things about which I have direct, personal knowledg...

One more in my series on this kind of thing and then I promise I'll stop. That graphic is from an article in America magazine, or someth...

We know this from modern Catholic teaching, summarized here. Our prelates are convinced they are being guided by the Holy Spirit. The Holy S...

This is unreal. I welcome the news that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans will not be permitted to watch the match at Aston Villa! Well done to all tho...

 ... that we should repeal the 19th Amendment. Here's something I hadn't considered: women are much more liberal than men. Liberal g...

Continuing with my model of primitives instead of progressives , let's look at this excellent blog post about the decay in Chicago. A d...

I think I've had my formulations wrong all this time. I keep talking about progressives and suchlike, but that's not really who they...

 For years, I've nuked our raised beds with every kind of fertilizer imaginable. In December or January, I pull last year's tomato p...

 ... then it might be time for you to check to see if your luggage is in working order. Dig this. France entering ‘new phase’ in antisemiti...

 I wasn't going to write about France again, but they, well, they did a France . French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu abruptly resign...