Wednesday
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 …
Month: September 2009
Tuesday
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 …
Monday Moanin’
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 …
Something for Sunday Morning
“God is not some distant stranger. He shows us his face in Jesus.” Benedict XVI
Misc.
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, …
BYCU
Oktoberfest pictures.
Boating 1850s Style
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 …
The Walker
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, …
GKC and Booker T. Sightings, Sundry
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 …
Fun with My Little Kids
A trip Sunday afternoon to a local dairy farm.
Monday Moanin’
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 …
Something for Sunday Morning
“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 …