Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday, friends! This week just galloped by … though not fast enough because I swear I couldn’t sample much on the ‘net without stumbling across yet another creature with five o-clock shadow prancing in a frilly frock while an actual woman was mobbed at a state university for daring to stand up for women’s rights. And the university sided with … wait for it … the mob.
I’m half tempted to start swigging the bubbly straight from the bottle. But I love the way crystal flutes sound when clinked. So let’s get to it, dears …
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For those of us ladies of a certain age, Mary Quant was everywhere and was everything of our coming of age. She was at the forefront of Swinging London fashion of the early 60s and built a vast empire on her cheeky, youthful designs — the miniskirt and hot pants — and there wasn’t a girl or young woman who didn’t want the bright graphic colors and go-go boots.
Mary Quant, the British fashion designer who popularized the miniskirt and shaped the 1960s “youthquake,” has died.
She was 93.
Her family announced the news, saying Quant died “peacefully at home” in Surrey in southern England on Thursday.
For all the other issues of the 60s and 70s, young women were much more self-assured and bolder and inclined to not take to the fainting couch at the mere male gaze. Let’s lift our glasses and toast to Mary’s memory. It would be nice to have some of that genuine spunk back instead of the cry-bullying that pretends to be confidence these days.
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How this "father" sees his child. What this "father's" child will become when child realizes they are in absolute control. https://t.co/h0ivlCgQXl pic.twitter.com/PpB15bb1qY
— Darleen Click ♦ ❤️ (@darleenclick) April 15, 2023
I suspect this is the entirely predictable metastasization of the cult of self-esteem that arose in the 80’s. California (of course) even had a state established self-esteem task force.
I’m only sorry we’ve gotten away from public stocks and tar and feathers.
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For a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, this past week has coughed up yet another few instances of abject government hostility towards the religiously observant. This:
A Superior Court in Santa Clara County, California, ordered a church to pay over $1 million in fines for operating indoor worship services amid the pandemic and not enforcing their parishioners to wear masks or social distance.
The judge, Evette Pennypacker, was particularly teed-off at the church for daring to conduct itself like other secular businesses were at the time. That just won’t do in neo-feudal California! While strip clubs and liquor stores stayed open
Santa Clara County took a litany of surveillance measures, including tracking parishioners’ mobile phone data to map concentrations of parishioners gathering together, to prove their case, according to San Jose’s Mercury News. A move that, according to the Mercury News, “raise[s] major civil liberties questions.”
Ya think?
And as the FBI has orders to add religious Catholics to their domestic terrorist surveillance list, this move by Walter Reed raises a whole lot of questions.
The Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services is accusing Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of denying Catholic service members and veterans their right to practice their religion after it canceled a contract for pastoral care and issued a “cease and desist” order to a community of Catholic priests just days before Holy Week.
The Catholic archdiocese says in a statement that Walter Reed issued the order against Holy Name College Friary, a Franciscan community of priests and brothers that has served at the center for nearly 20 years.
Instead, it says the contract for Catholic Pastoral Care was terminated at the end of March, just as Holy Week was about to begin. Walter Reed replaced the contract with a secular defense contracting firm that the archdiocese says will not be able to provide the adequate care needed.
Cabbagehead Biden is off in Ireland acting like the creepy uncle let out of the attic during the holidays. He’s allegedly a Catholic like Tipsy Pelosi and yet here we are. It’s clear, their true faith is in BigGov.
As traditional religion has been shoved out of the public square, has society gotten better? Who knew that the real revolutionaries of the 21st century would be the church bazaar and casserole-making demographic.
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No men in dresses or dads teaching their daughters-on-testosterone how to shave, this is how society defined masculinity in the 90s.
The world you grew up in no longer exists.pic.twitter.com/mQj00lozJf
— Swig (@OldRowSwig) April 3, 2023
a retro Gillette razor ad from the 1990s has grabbed the attention of so many people online. It reminds us of what men used to be like, and what society used to encourage them to be like. (snip)
The scenes include men running a race, lifting weights, playing soccer, surfing, and working long hours in an office. You can also see an elderly father embracing his son on the day of his wedding, a father happily bathing his infant son, a dad showing his son how to lift weights, and a man in a suit arriving at the airport to see his wife running into his arms. There’s camaraderie between the men who work or play sports together and a tender relationship between husband and wife, as well as father and son. It’s a heartwarming overview of what everyday life looks like for most men—work, family, physical activity, and friendship. It’s simple. It’s not at all political. It’s very relatable. And most importantly, it’s aspirational. These are the kind of accomplished, healthy men that have happy families and fulfilling lives, and that’s what Gillette wanted their product to embody for their consumers.
Now we have all manner of woke corporate pimps looking to make even beer promote “the best woman for the job is a man” schtick.
Let me refill your flute and let’s watch this again.
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Raising up a good kid.
Alleluia Baskets is a non-profit that “builds community and provides joy” by providing Easter baskets for those in the community who are living at or below the poverty level, Karen Mesler, founder of Alleluia Baskets, told Fox News Digital.
Luke became involved with the organization alongside his parents in 2020, who came in to help Mesler and her team fill Easter baskets.
Mesler said he went home and told his parents that “he wants to help more kids smile,” so Luke started finding ways to bring in thousands of supplies. (snip)
Luke helped collect 12,221 items for Alleluia Baskets for Easter 2023 and loaded it all up into Mesler’s box truck.
It may have been Easter 2023, but it looks like Luke’s parents are raising him up to be a man of the 1990s.
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So, friends, as we move towards a summer of political hysteria for the upcoming 2024 Circus of the Absurd, I will be here each Sunday so we can review and laugh as much as possible. And, oh, don’t worry. I’ve already put in with management to double our annual order of champagne. See you next Sunday. Cheers!
featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click
Cameron says: Having been a resident of CA and Santa Clara County, that court case doesn’t surprise me. And I will pray that the church being targeted fights this all the way to the Supreme Court.
Gillette should have been a cautionary tale for Anheuser Busch. Embrace what makes your product good and profitable and reject efforts to turn away from that.
Luke helped collect 12,221 items for Alleluia Baskets for Easter 2023 and loaded it all up into Mesler’s box truck. And did it for no reason other than wanting kids to smile on Easter. There’s always hope if you know where to look.
GWB says: I’m only sorry we’ve gotten away from public stocks and tar and feathers.
This is applicable to a broad range of our current culture….
I’m amenable to caning and the return of horse-whipping, too.
GWB says: government hostility towards the religiously observant
Stop that! They are absolutely NOT hostile toward the “religiously observant”! They are hostile to Christianity! They are only hostile to anything that would not bow to the Progressive religion (or is not also hostile directly to Christianity). This is not an issue of hostility against religion, but hostility to the one religion that would circumscribe their hedonist and transhumanist idolatry of their own selves.
“raise[s] major civil liberties questions.”
Yes. Ones that should have them, at a minimum, beaten and thrown out of town. I’d settle for prison time.
a contract for pastoral care
replaced the contract with a secular defense contracting firm
Ummm, yeah, about that. A “secular” entity could NEVER provide pastoral care. Unless they were Progressive. Of course, then, the pastoral care wouldn’t be Christian in any sense.
As traditional religion has been shoved out of the public square
Again, it’s not traditional religion, but Christian religion. And specifically morals.
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