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Rod Dreher

I sat in the car in the parking garage of my office this morning, listening to an LSU scientist talk about the oil spill on a radio show. He said that before this is over, we could see oil onshore stretching from Central Texas to all along the western coast of Florida. He explained that…

This situation is going from bad to worse, fast: Kim Jong-il has reportedly ordered a mobilization of his armed forces. China is the only nation that can stop the crazed dictator from his brinksmanship. How do you deal rationally with a madman? Open thread on the prospect of a new Korean war — which, if…

Had you heard of the UK rape conviction of two small boys? I hadn’t, until reading British commentator Frank Furedi’s denunciation of the proceedings as a sick farce that teaches a lesson about the moral degeneration of British society — but not the one you might think. Furedi writes: British society has become so morally…

Sorry for yesterday’s light posting, and this morning’s. I was traveling in Washington yesterday, and had no access to the laptop. And I didn’t get home till midnight. Have mercy! Anyway, via The Browser, which you should be checking at least twice daily, comes a Walter Russell Mead talker laying down Mead’s Top Ten Lessons…

What is wrong with these people?! Excerpt: Mandeep Singh Dhillon’s son, Zoraver, learned how to take pictures of himself with his father’s computer when he was four years old, and he immediately wanted to share the results with relatives online. Mr. Dhillon liked the idea of his son developing skills at an early age that…

Why you should not send your 17-year-old daughter to stay with her old Francophile Working Boy uncle: (Reste tranquille, Ruthie — the photo is staged! Still, we’re having a great time — listening to Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel, dancing, etc.)

I’m going to spare you all another rant about the idiotic system of state-run wine and spirits stores in Pennsylvania. You know the drill: the state holds a monopoly on wine and spirits sales, making all clerks in the state-run stores civil servants. I have complained nastily here about the crappy selection and service you…

John Robb believes that the second Great Depression is already upon us, but is playing out in different ways, owing to globalization. He sees political instability rising as sovereign governments cannot provide for their own people, and/or protect them from power players in the global market who have no loyalty except to their own interests.…

… unless the Internet can save them! Follow that link to a Metafilter thread in which a man engages his online community in an effort to try to save two Russian women he knows from meeting a job contact in New York — a man who is almost certainly a mobster intending to press them…

As mentioned earlier, we have our niece Hannah staying with us this week, up visiting from Louisiana. She’s my sister Ruthie’s 17-year-old daughter, and this is her first visit to Philadelphia. As I write this on Saturday morning, she and Julie are on their way to New York for the day. It has been such…
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