C.S. Lewis's Birthday

Writer of some of the most enjoyable reads I've had in life. His scholarly analyses are like sweet old wine--One reads them over and over, relishing their wit and many felicities. His deliberate fiction (with always the exception of the Screwtape Letters, which is above praise)--meh. And so also, I believe, his friend J.R.R. Tolkien thought. (Of the Chronicles of Narnia): Creaky plot, dull characters. But I will never in this life get enough of Lewis's ruminations on the Roman de la Rose. 

The Pope's in Ankara

 God help us all.

John Mearsheimer appears to be right about everything...

I particularly like his dispassionate, positive characterization of Vladimir Putin. That is just how I see and understand the man and his politic.