JUNE 10 / Soundtrack for 42 years
A, weh, uh, weh, uh, well,
The little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you.
Rave on, it's a crazy feelin',
And I know it's got me reelin',
when you say, "I love you."
Rave on.
A, weh, uh, weh, uh, well,
The little things you say and do
Make me want to be with you.
Rave on, it's a crazy feelin',
And I know it's got me reelin',
when you say, "I love you."
Rave on.
MY SWEET Diana and I have been blessed with forty-two years of marriage. Last year's celebratory post is eternally true.
IF DEMOGRAPHY is destiny, it is the destiny of young men in China to be very, very lonely. The one-child policy plus gender-specific abortion -- a curiously neutral label for scraping little girls out of wombs -- equals China with a reported surplus of 32 million men under the age of 30.
Continue reading "JUNE 9 / Supply and demand at work in China's marriage market" »
DAVID Edgar Hancock was born on March 26, 1970. Here is something I wrote about him nine years ago.
WANT TO SEE what a conversation on race really looks like? Then click through to Stuart Taylor, Jr.'s, response to AG Eric Holder's race-baiting jeremiad of early February. Samples:
Continue reading "MARCH 2 / "Back atcha, Mr. Holder": Stuart Taylor edition" »
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
LAST WEEK, LADY DI and I finally saw Bella, the much-discussed 2006 Indie film about a day in the life of a pregnant waitress and the chef who befriended her. It's great. Rent it at once. It will elevate your spirit and may even ennoble your character.
By coincidence, the same week Diana and I also saw a big-budget chick flick -- No Reservations -- with a similar setting (a restaurant kitchen) and with similar characters (chefs), plot devices (an unwanted child), and redemptive themes (loss, loneliness, family). It could not have been any more different.
FOR THE FIRST time in history, unmarried people head the majority of U.S. households. . . . Countries around the world are experiencing similar trends.
. . . . Left to their own devices, most Americans can work [their differences over moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage] in politics much as they do in their everyday lives, as untidy as those solutions may be. Unfortunately, when the courts short-circuit this process, they do three things corrosive to our politics.
Continue reading "DECEMBER 12 / The courts versus self-governance" »