Maggie's Farm

Latest on the Anglican dispute - makes the Bird Dog glad he isn't Anglican/Episcopal - most of us Yankees are bred-in-the-bone Congregationalists, and figger such matters are local church decisions, and furthermore does not happen to feel that people's sexual proclivities are anyone's business, nor does he wish to hear about them in public - and our own Blog Shrink advisor, Dr. Joy Bliss, insists that "Private is Private":  Click here: FT January 2005: Opinion
 

The Pope on democracy and faith:Click here: Must democracy rest on faith? | csmonitor.com

Monty Python comes to Broadway- "More shrubberies.": Click here: Spamalot Official Ticket Source Shubert Theatre New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com

Govt support for the arts in the Netherlands: Click here: Taxpayer support for artists: too much of a good thing? | csmonitor.com

John Ashbery - "too hip for the squares, and too square for the hips"? -Click here: The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > Mapping the Unconscious

Psalm 23, A Song of David

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want;
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil; for thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

This in from our Vermont correspondent:

Ayup, it is beginnin to drip. Not too fast mind you, but it's coming. No, I ain't talkin about my prostate problem. We had two sunny days and the sap is running and it looks to be a good year - which means ---ing low prices. Country folk just can't win. You know, Bird Dog, that this is what passes for excitement here in the Northeast Kingdom. Maple sap. Thanks for the recipes - next bear I shoot, I'll yank out the heart like they say. No time for authoring this morning - gotta bring coffee down for the boys in the barn, then get the fires goin in the sugar shack.

"Life isn't all peaches and gravy."

A basketball player - cannot remember who - after a losing game recently

Oh, the hours that I spent inside the Coliseum,
Dodgin' lions, and wastin' time.
All those mighty kings of the jungle, I could hardly stand to see 'em,
Yes it sure has been a long, hard climb.
Train wheels runnin' through the back of my memory,
When I ran on the hilltop following a pack of wild geese.
Someday, everything is gonna be smooth like a rhapsody,
When I paint my masterpiece.

Dylan, from When I Paint My Masterpiece

Dems gone psychotic - Byrd terms Repubs Nazis: Click here: Captain's Quarters and Dean claims Repubs "evil": Click here: NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story

This is Brit grouse, not the Dog's beloved ruffed grouse, but might it apply? Click here: The New York Times > Science > Observatory: What's Good for the Grouse

Campus conservatives getting louder: Click here: City Journal Winter 2005 | On Campus, Conservatives Talk Back by Brian C. Anderson

Another knee-jerk Liberal yields to the wisdom of W: Click here: ProfessorBainbridge.com: Kinsley on Bush  

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world."

Albert Einstein

First, Freedom - just as those evil neo-cons predicted, the dominoes are falling - Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon...Iran next? Let's hope so. It has to bring pleasure to every American heart to see tyranny fall.Even the NYT must admit it: Click here: The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: Mideast Climate Change

Second, Free Speech. Students (remember Mario Fazio or whatever his name was?) are rebelling against the Stalinist tendencies of the modern universities at the University of AlabamaClick here: The Volokh Conspiracy -   and at Dartmouth  Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy - and here Click here: The Volokh Conspiracy -

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"Only dead fish swim with the stream."

Malcolm Muggeridge