Month: January 2011
Sloping Toward Rush “Ching chong, ching chong cha.” That’s Rush Limbaugh, imitating the Chinese Communist leader, before launching into a 20-second imitation of the Chinese language . . . …
“To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint.” Escriva
My son, crowned at the high school earlier this afternoon.
One and Done Watch for these beers: “Tactical Nuclear Penguin.” “Sink The Bismarck.” “The End Of History.” “Start the Future.” They’re the worlds strongest beers, hitting as high as …
The Vat My firm subscribes to the New Yorker. A recent issue featured this piece about the Vatican library, “God’s Librarians.” It’s good, especially for a magazine that isn’t …
Woe the Man with Halitosis I found a book on sports psychology at the library last week. It could aptly be called, “The Tao and Sports.” Because the Tao …
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Athletes like to text and twitter. Why? Because they’re dumb jocks. Maybe. . . . more>> Communists. Cultural Marxists. Progressives. All the same: totalitarians, …
Barbarians at the Gate Alan Greenspan returns to his libertarian roots more and more each day. The stunner quote: “We have at this particular stage a fiat money which …
“Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.” St. Francis de Sales
No time for blogging today, so I offer this six-pack of cool pics:
Random “Bubble Ball” is the king of the iPod Application universe. It has been downloaded over 2 million times. The developer? A fourteen-year-old boy from Utah. I don’t care …