Month: November 2014
A Random Passage “Society desperately needs enclaves like monasteries and universities wherein men and women have . . . leisure. But we should never forget that the primary place …
Kontent from the Kindle I knew Hollywood had a heavy Jewish influence, but I didn’t realize it was pretty much entirely Jewish, albeit of the type who assimilated. A …
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Robert Nisbet: Communitarian Traditionalist Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2000 (Hardcover, ISBN: 1 882926 33 1) By Brad Lowell Stone G.K. Chesterton’s economics parallels Robert Nisbet’s sociology. I think that’s …
“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark …
Black Wednesday again. Far out. I’ve been celebrating Black Wednesday since 1985, when I first came back home from college for Thanksgiving Break. It is one of my favorite …
Coming: Special BYCU, 8th Anniversary Edition. Lengthiest Black Wednesday edition ever. GKC, Nock, and more pic.twitter.com/gBsBxErBZm — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) November 23, 2014
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A few great quotes that I ran across on Twitter last week: "You cannot be half a saint; you must be a whole saint or no saint at all." …
On Bullying “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” That easily ranks in my top ten of GKC quotes. …
H.I.F. Ten books for fallen-away Catholics. I was expecting Surprised by Truth and the like. Instead, I got Dostoyevsky and Graham Greene. I’m not sure I agree with the …
The more I’m around people, the more I’m convinced that a rambling style is the sign of an immature, under-developed, and/or un-disciplined mind. The rule applies to written or …