My favorite Belloc book: The Four Men. It's now available here. Go to The Blue Boar to figure out how to find it. Intelligent observation from one of the commentators at The Blue Boar:
One of Belloc's best! I first read it many years ago in Chicago during the summer months. Most of it was read on the "El" to and from downtown. At the time, I had this sense that it is a story that ought to be read when Belloc himself sets it--at the end of October and the beginning of November. Years later, I picked up a used copy and it has become a yearly pilgrimage for me (as the Path to Rome was for Knox--wasn't it?).
Get it however you can--online or from a dusty university bookshelf-- and read it with a tankard of your favorite ale on a brisk autumnal evening, praying for and to the Church Suffering--including Belloc!
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My Halloween-decorating plans are now complete: A modern day sorceress in Massachusetts is burning mad about a neighbor's Halloween decoration depicting a witch hanging from a noose, calling it a hate crime against her religion.
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One of the most unique niche blogs I've run across in three years of heavy blog surfing: Holy Cards for Your Inspiration.
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I gotta get me some of that low-grade VD: Chlamydia, the sexually transmitted infection (STI) carried by one in ten sexually-active young British adults can make men infertile by damaging the quality of their sperm, new research has shown.
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Deletionist wars at Wikipedia. Sounds like a lot of cooks want to change the recipe to, you know, just make it a little bit better. It's become an Internet staple, so now a few want to make sure it's really, really good. Nothing kills like success. Via.
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Alright, I'll vomit now: Russian authorities are investigating after discovering a man had married his own grandmother.
