Napoleonic Veterans In Old Age (And Still In Uniform)
Sergeant Taria, Grenadiere de la Garde, 1809-1815 A week or so back I posted about two Union sailors lost on the Monitor, whose faces have been given back to us […]
Notable Quotable: Gail Collins on Herman Cain and Frozen Armadillos
Gail Collins does some of the best satiricial and smart writing in politics today. From today’s NYT, she writes on on the improbabilities of Herman Cain and frozen armadillos. Trust […]
Zombies! Run!
I’ve heard of Zombie Walks, but never until now a Zombie Run, and if I was in Maryland this October, darn skippy I’d do it. How can you resist an […]
A Determined Fisherman
Saw this several weeks ago while driving to CFB Suffield for Sunday worship at the chapel and it was too perfect, so I gingerly took this snap with my iphone […]
RAF Pilots Honoured by Battle of Britain Tea
With Sept 19th’s Battle of Britain Sunday service still fresh in my memory, I was pleased to see this story in the UK MOD press service about how a British […]
The Haunted Hat
Who ya’ goin’ to call? Devoutly hoping we don’t need to call these guys once we move into our new old house in Medicine Hat next month.
“Death”, “Water”, “Bias” – Expound
I know I wasn’t the only one to like this recent piece in the NYT on the ending of the one-word entrance exam at All Souls’ College, Oxford, because several […]
Dolls Redux Redux
OK, one more post on dolls and then I’m off the subject. While doing some research on military action figures for my last post here, I came across this guy, […]
Dolls Redux
A friend of mine sent me this link to a website about a unique imaginary world that involves dolls, including a few Barbies, I think. As I first glanced at […]
A model of biblical proportions
This story combines the Mad Padre’s love of a) things religious with b) things historical with c) crazy modeling pursuits. As a friend of mine commented, when the English farmer […]