Slowly Reading. Greatly Enjoying.

 

Fauci and China

 Writing in City Journal, Nicholas Wade (no relation) examines where the blame rests for the pandemic.

An excerpt:

Fauci did not defend the natural origin position at Senator Paul’s hearing. In his long silences—he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, despite his 2025 pardon from President Biden—even his supporters could hear a failure to deny some incontrovertible facts. He supported an extensive program of gain of function research without seeking the public advice and consent of independent scientific experts. He let his grantees fund dangerous viral manipulations at the Wuhan Institute in unsupervised and unsafe laboratory conditions. When the SARS-CoV2 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab, as it almost certainly did, he engineered a seemingly independent report that blamed the pandemic on nature instead of on the research that he had calamitously funded.  

First Paragraph

 We set off in an open cart drawn by four whip-scarred little oxen and piled high with equipment and provisions. No medieval knight could have been more closely armoured than were Tilly and I, against the rays of the sun. A mushroom-brimmed hat, built of two thicknesses of heavy felt and lined with red flannel, protected her creamy complexion, a long-sleeved white blouse clasped her by the neck, and a heavy skirt of khaki drill fell to her booted ankles.

- From The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley

Find Something Beautiful Today

[Photo by Kateryna Hliznitsova at Unsplash+]

Books for Children

Sippican Cottage: I Read All These Books and Boy Are My Lips Tired.

[I'm flashing back to when many children's books had the works of great illustrators such as Howard Pyle and N. C. Wyeth.]

Films About Totalitarianism: A Series

 

Fine Writing Instruments

 A rather fascinating store: The Manila Penography.

A Greater Enlightenment

 Joel Kotkin: "Scientists Who Believe in God Are Challenging the Expert Atheist Establishment." 

An excerpt:

The rise of religiously oriented scientists represents a challenge to the "established" ultra-secular scientific establishment whose credibility was undermined by their adding political dogma to their research. This includes such absurdities as insisting there are more than two biological sexes.

Kisin on Immigration

 

El Cid: Crank It Up.

 

Simple fact: Miklos Rozsa was one of the greatest composers of soundtracks.