tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post8241518775221947920..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRĂNMARK BLOG: Conservatism shouldn't be the new Punk Rock - it should be the new Rock 'n' Roll!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-71837993508225124782017-02-17T16:09:57.749+00:002017-02-17T16:09:57.749+00:00I suspect it's as good as any other of his boo...I suspect it's as good as any other of his books, total sales 23 million. One short story after another, five pages, four, even three. Very light touch. There's a problem in the village. Peppone, the Communist mayor, can't solve it and Don Camillo can. Often after a chat with Jesus. Despite all the dialectical materialism of the Party, the Communists can't persuade others to give up their veneration for the Church and can't in the end give it up even themselves. That's it.<br /><br />It's about 50 years since I read a Father Brown story but as far as I remember they're all a bit more heavy-handed but they have the same shape, there's him and there's Flambeau, and Father Brown always wins.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-70373603778203946892017-02-16T14:13:04.394+00:002017-02-16T14:13:04.394+00:00That's very heartening to know, gogilesgo. We&...That's very heartening to know, gogilesgo. We're on the same side - freedom and personal responsibility and all that. And if I were an American, I might be tempted. I've read Rothbard, revere Isabel Paterson's "The God of the Machine" and visit the Lew Rockwell site occasionally - but I'm too much of a traditional pro-police, pro-military, censorious social conservative to ever fully convert. Like a lot of right-wing conservatives, though, I get a real kick out of the way young libertarians are fighting their brainwashed contemporaries on the left's traditional turf, using the left's traditional weapons - and driving them totally nuts by doing so. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-14089410781605189432017-02-16T13:54:21.862+00:002017-02-16T13:54:21.862+00:00Is that the best of the Don Camillo series? Never ...Is that the best of the Don Camillo series? Never read one, to be honest. One thing which has surprised me recently is the BBC daytime TV adaptation of Father Brown. How did that slip under the radar? Could be time for yet another Don Camillo adaptation!Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-15708538469776143002017-02-16T13:45:53.901+00:002017-02-16T13:45:53.901+00:00Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter last year, an...Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter last year, and has subsequently written a book, "Dangerous", which is due to be published later this year. There were so many pre-orders for it after it was announced in December, it went straight to No. 1 on Amazon. Looking forward to reading it. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-41530213605887349062017-02-15T14:46:11.851+00:002017-02-15T14:46:11.851+00:00"I'm very much not a libertarian - and I ..."I'm very much not a libertarian - and I suspect you aren't either".<br /><br />There are a few of us libertarians who dig the blog, Scott. Not so much the Pintrest site but who knows, we may come around to that too.<br />gogilesgohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07103323113636996342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-60421415652182921132017-02-14T22:21:53.992+00:002017-02-14T22:21:53.992+00:00Currently flipping through a copy of Don Camillo a...Currently flipping through a copy of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giovanni-Guareschi/e/B000APSSN6/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1487110580&sr=1-2-ent" rel="nofollow"><i>Don Camillo and his Flock</i></a>, a 70 years older version of Mr Watson's work.David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-15475208158946078932017-02-13T07:32:36.230+00:002017-02-13T07:32:36.230+00:00Some young voters will turn right as soon as they ...Some young voters will turn right as soon as they leave college and realize they've been saddled with a huge chain around their necks while other graduates will have nothing to pay whatsoever. <br />Interesting to see The Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant has received over 30,000 applications " exclusively to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female,queer and ethnic minority classmates."<br />southern mannoreply@blogger.com