Tag Archives: Hilaire Belloc

Obey Your Parents or Face the Lion

Today being Hilaire Belloc’s birthday, I share one of his darkly comic “Cautionary Tales for Children.”

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Merry Christmas (Not!)

Wednesday Sardonic Catholic satirist Hilaire Belloc has the perfect response for our president’s latest tweet, not to mention for all those Christians hysterically complaining about “the war on Christmas.” First, Donald Trump: It’s a disgrace what’s happening in this country. But other than that, I wish everybody a merry Christmas. Here’s Belloc from his novel […]

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On Toddlers, Terrorists, and Loaded Guns

Among the ways that Donald Trump is repaying the NRA for its support is reversing an Obama executive decision designed to keep guns out of the hands of mentally handicapped persons. Hilaire Belloc would have something to say about America’s casual acceptance of guns.

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Donald, Who Lied & Was Burned to Death

Donald Trump has taken political lying to new heights, bringing to mind Hilaire Belloc’s darkly comic poem, “Matilda, Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death.”

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Open Season on Young Black Men

Hilaire Belloc satirically advocates dire punishment for childish misbehavior except when it comes to guns. The NRA would approve.

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America’s Obsession with Pie

Hilaire Belloc’s hilarious complaint about the world’s eating tastes would not treat Thanksgiving well.

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The Night Father Fell Out of Bed

I take a page from James Thurber and the author of Madeleine as I describe “The Night My Father Fell Out of Bed.”

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Mitt (who told lies and was burned to death)

Mitt Romney’s lies, like those of Hilaire Belloc’s Matilda, make one gasp and stretch one’s eyes.

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Moral Verse for Bad Little Children

When I was a child, I was a great fan of the tongue-in-cheek “cautionary verses” of English poet Hilaire Belloc.  I have written in the past about how, in the Alice books, Lewis Carroll took off after those heavy-handed Victorian moralists who tried to scare children into good behavior.  Belloc did more of the same, […]

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