Sunday
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 …
Month: November 2014
Kontent from the Kindle
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 …
Stoic Week 2014
Going on now. Link
Book Review
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 …
Happy Thanksgiving
“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 …
Special BYCU Edition: Eight Years Running
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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Tuesday
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." …
Monday
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. …
Interesting
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 …
Saturday
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 …