Larry Kudlow is not weeping over the floperoo of the super committee:
In an important sense, the whole super-committee debate from the Democratic side was about taxing the rich. They never went quite as far as President Obamas populist class-warfare rant, at least not publically. But basically this logjam was about so-called tax fairness.
Main thing: “we dodged a super tax hike and got a couple trillion dollars of lower spending. Not the worst thing in the world.”
Google “water plant in Springfield, Ill. had been damaged” as in the Wash Post story about Russia-located hackers getting into a control system, and you find that Chicago papers have nada.
I did find an interesting piece in the online Trib about “feral swines” [sic] and the harm they do, however. Yes, swines are troublesome, but the mooses are no bargain either.
Jan. 1, the “Anglican ordinariate” is coming to the U.S. It’s Vatican-approved and -affiliated Anglicanism, maybe to a parish near you. Its priests and people will bring “the Anglican patrimony.” A few of the good things they bring:
1. Good hymns 2. Good education 3. Good sense of self deprecating humor 4. Good taste in dry sherry 5. Good understanding of the importance of lace and incense 6. Good literary sense 7. Good boost to the Western tradition 8. words like “vouchsafe” 9. good Choral evensong 10. good knowledge of architecture 11. good Englishness 12. good sense of the need for Evangelization. 13. Good missionary spirit. 14. Good hats 15. Good down to earth spirituality.
Dry sherry? Not the wet kind?
It was other people’s money, so what, he worry?
This lady is against “insider dawdgie trading.”
[It’s almost at the end, 3:30 or so. Or
listen to it all, since it’s a pretty good exchange, if frenetic as
usual.]
When you put it that way, it’s a no-brainer.
From friend Peter of the EPA (of all places*):
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close
together as possible
