Month: September 2009
Here, Drink This Baby Bottle of Red Dye Is it me, or is there something wrong with this picture (emphasis mine): “Doctors at five sites in England are comparing …
Sword of Damocles? “Amherst estimates this massive overhang at seven million units. That’s the equivalent of 135% of a full year’s existing-home sales and chillingly greater than the 1.27 …
Val-de-ri Val-de-ra This article says Americans are taming their wanderlust. I find that highly doubtful. It’s a lamentable trait, but one that has marked American since at least Tocqueville’s …
“God is not some distant stranger. He shows us his face in Jesus.” Benedict XVI
Received in an Email Touching Stories I was walking through the cemetery this morning and saw a guy crouching down behind a tombstone. I said, “Morning.” He said, “No, …
Oktoberfest pictures.
Earlier this month while at the drinking club, I watched some Amish take their boat out of the lake . . . by backing their horse down the boat …
I found this well piece by Paul Johnson in the current issue of Forbes. Walking Our Way Out of Recession. I especially liked this excerpt: Walking is not, however, …
Booker T. Washington was an Uncle Tom? Not according to a new biography out of Harvard University Press. One of the ACORN antagonists is a Chesterton fan, according to …
A trip Sunday afternoon to a local dairy farm.
Monsters in Austen “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” It’s one of …
“We can find all that is necessary in the present moment. We need not worry about whether to pray or be silent, whether to withdraw into retreat or mix …