http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:08:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jackson Street, San Francisco: 20 rooms, 9 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms, 3 half-bathrooms, 7 fireplaces, hardwood floors, 4 storeys, an elevator, 4-car garage, and off-street parking. And a heck of a view! http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/05/pacific-heights/ The Fourth of July, we are told, is a day for celebrating the love of one's country. Robert Harrington and I were sitting around one evening when we decided to found a guerrilla group. First, it needed a name; Front pour la libération de notre terre sacrée Amérique (or the ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/04/hic-mihi-patria-est/ The fruit of many prayers: Ingrid Betancourt is free What a splendid thing is the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt after being held in captivity by the FARC for six years and five months. The Franco-Colombian politician was freed by the Armed Forces of Colombia in a raid planned so well that ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/betancourt/ Back in May, Michael J. Iafrate, a fellow Catholic who is a native of the great state of West Virginia and is now studying in the fair dominion of Canada, raised the subject of the obnoxious proselytism by Evangelical Protestants in our nation's military on his very interesting site, catholicanarchy.org. Mr. ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/catholics-and-the-military/ Fallen Sparrow, a denizen of the Queens neighborhood of "Côté du Bois", gives the low-down on the blessing of Matt Alderman's apartment and unveiling of a new graphic work last Saturday. I acted as acolyte, which pretty much consisted of holding the bowl of holy water. Herr Sparrow also covered the ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/the-blessing-of-an-apartment/ Over at Ex Laodicea, Notburga tells us What she learnt in Sweden. http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/what-notburga-learnt-in-sweden/ Victor Davis Hanson has suggested in his “Letter to the Europeans” that we Americans believe the European Union is a “flawed concept”. But is it possible to make such a pronouncement when there exist such varying definitions as to what precisely is the “concept” behind the E.U.? The original concept ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/stat-belgium-stat-europa/ [Posted by Andrew Cusack on June 26, 2008 at "The Sniper's Tower", Taki's Magazine] The shady powers that control the world wide web have announced that everything you now know about the internet is about to change. Top level domains, or TLDs, are things such as .com, .org., .us and so ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/07/03/internet-disorder/ The lead feature in the latest Norumbega is on The European, the weekly broadsheet that billed itself as "Europe's national newspaper" from 1990 to 1998. When I was a kid, The European was my favorite newspaper and was an indelible part of our Sunday routine in the Cusack household: first ... http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/06/29/the-european/ The life and death of The European The Kirchners vs. the Argentine nation G. K. Chesterton views the sunrise Berlin State Opera to rebuild main hall Art in the service of evil Enjoy! http://cusack.norumbega.co.uk/2008/06/29/norumbega-no-7/