Today, we’re going to go all classical and stuff:
So:
And signing off with some more res classica, from Giuseppe Boldini:
Now get out of bed and head off to work:
Author: Kim du Toit
Modern Classic Beauty
I’ve featured her before, here and there, but not in depth (so to speak). So here’s Italy’s worthy successor to Sophia and Gina: Monica Bellucci. I was going to start with young Monica and work my way up [ahem] to the present day, but like Sophia and Gina, La Monica is pretty much astounding at any age. So I’ll just do a monochrome set first, and leave the color for another time. Okay?
Que bella.
Thought Experiment
If you could be transported back in time to any five historical events, which ones would you choose to witness?
Assume that it would be in your mind’s eye only, so you could not be involved in, change or be physically affected by the event, and you could come back to the present at any point you wished. Also assume, though, that you could take photographs (or videos) to prove that you were there and what you saw.
Mine are below the fold.
TGI
“Come See The Violence
…inherent in the system!” is Eric Idle’s iconic wail in the Monty Python And The Holy Grail movie, when King Arthur finally loses his patience and pushes the mouthy peasant to the ground. Funny as hell.
And then we have this:
Enoch Burke has been at the centre of a trans right row in Ireland for over two years now – but he’s not the only member of his family facing endless legal woes.
In May 2022, the former history teacher told the headteacher at his school in County Westmeath that his Evangelical Christian beliefs meant he ‘opposed transgenderism’ and later criticised his boss’ ‘demand’ to use the child’s new name in front of staff and students.
It sparked a chain of events that has led to him being jailed for repeatedly showing up at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath after being sacked, and entering the staff room saying he was there to do his job.
Enoch has spent over 300 days in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin and has no prospect of release because he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from the school premises. Earlier this year, he refused a High Court offer to spend Easter out of prison and accused the judge of colluding with the school.
Earlier this week, Enoch’s sister Ammi lost an unlawful dismissal appeal at the Court of Appeal and was criticised for her ‘utterly appalling and egregious’ behaviour during proceedings.
In May this year, Ms Burke was also found guilty of obstructing a garda during a ‘commotion’ on 7th March last year at the Four Courts.
During the incident, her father ‘flung’ a female garda to the ground behaving ‘like a red rag to a bull’ after his wife was escorted out of court.
Mind you, it should be said that the entire family in question seems to be a bunch of raving nutcases (although this is not too uncommon in Ireland), but note how the whole thing has snowballed into some serious shit, all from something completely innocuous: because a man refused to use someone’s “proper” name.
That’s almost as bad as calling an anarcho-syndicalist a “bloody peasant”.
Modus Operandi, or S.O.P.
From Steve Kruiser:
Attorney General Merrick Garland spent some time Capitol Hill on Tuesday, sparring with Republicans who, once again, were expressing their extreme displeasure with the way he does business but not really doing anything about it.
Yeah well, “expressing extreme displeasure but not really doing anything about it” are the actual lyrics from the Battle Hymn Of The Republic[an Party].
Put another way: the Democrat Socialists are driving the country towards the precipice, while the Republicans are timidly asking them to please apply the brakes now and again, but not too hard.
Useless bunch of eunuchs.
S.O.P. — Standard Operating Procedure. Or Stupid Old Party. Take your pick.