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Former NHL Goon Turns Catholic . . . After Winning All-Star MVP Honors

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“They challenged my manhood, challenged my role as a father. They were really just questioning my morals. It was very personal, and at that time I was really starting …

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Who is This Ennui Guy Anyway?

January 19, 2021

Reinhard Kuhn (the author of The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature) defined ennui as “the state of emptiness that the soul feels when it is deprived of interest in action, life, and the world (be it this world or another),
Google Scares Me, Taki, the Gulag

January 19, 2021

Earthy Catholic commentary: Google and Gulag
Johnson Rod

January 18, 2021

What is a "Johnson Rod"?
Gay Boogaloo Boys and Talkin’ Secession at Parler

January 18, 2021

Gay Boogaloo Boys and Talkin' Secession at Parler
How I Use the Gardening Blockchain Crypto-Johnson Rod Algorithm to Deal with the Modern World

January 18, 2021

How gardening helps us live happily in a world we don't understand
We Either Flee Devils or Fight Them

January 17, 2021

Remembering St. Antony on his feast day: St. Macarius fought the devils. Holden Caulfield fled them.
What’s That Twitter Imp Up To?

January 16, 2021

Is Jack Dorsey a leftist libertarian who doesn't like Twitter's hegemony?
Seven Days Make One Weak

January 16, 2021

The Left goes left, Taibbi, investments
The Best Catholic Drinking Book of All Time?

January 15, 2021

Drinking Matters: Drinking with the Saints, Regnery Publishing, Russell Kirk, and That Old Bookseller in Niles, Michigan
Do You Want to Be a Writer?

January 14, 2021

Revisiting a 1938 classic about the art of writing. It's a bit artsy, but edifying and even spiritual.
Dostoyevsky’s Mock Execution

January 13, 2021

The whole thing was orchestrated, but the radicals fell for it. One, says Gary Morson, “had his hair turn white; a second went mad and never recovered his sanity; a third, whose two-hundredth birthday we celebrate in 2021, went on to write Crime and Punishment.”
Three Lesser-Known Figures in the Zen Tradition

January 13, 2021

Getting to know Chuang-Tzu, Lin-Chi, and Dogen's kitchen-worker friend. . . with Catholic asides.

Johnson Rod

What is a "Johnson Rod"?
In the Margin

A website that might drown you with good stuff.
Drinking and Football Trivia for Your NYE Celebration

Max McGee, the first player to score a touchdown in a Super Bowl, did so hungover and getting barely any sleep the night before.
Orwell Anniversary, of Sorts

Orwell publishes his first piece
GKC in the Comics

GKC was a character in a DC comic book
GKC on Waugh

Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards . . .
Using the Legislative Process Slows Us Down

A socialist government must not allow itself to be too much fettered by democratic procedure.
St. John of the Cross Feast Day

To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing.
Orwell Paints Abortion in the Soul

Orwell describes the protagonist's reaction to the suggestion from the girl he impregnated that she get an abortion.
Everlasting GKC for Advent

Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes it or not, an association in his mind between two ideas that most of mankind must regard as remote from each other; the idea of a baby and the idea of unknown strength that sustains the stars.
From Johnson’s Dictionary

Neckweed: Hemp.
Satanism is on the Rise

I also see this through the victims of Satanism, of dangerous rites, who come to see me and who have lived unprecedented, unimaginable sufferings to their own skin. Personally, I can say that more people are coming to see me than before.

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“The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule.” G. K. Chesterton
“All prayer begins by man becoming silent.” Romano Guardini
“he person who wants things to come about as he himself wills does not know where he is going and, like a blind man thrown hither and thither by the wind, he is entirely dominated by whatever falls him.” Peter of Damaskos
“self-mistrust . . . in every matter, even the good .” John Climacus
“I, the Captain of a Legion of Rome, serving in the desert of Libya, have learnt and pondered this truth: 'There are in life but two things to be sought, Love and Power, and no one has both.” Mysterious ancient Roman inscription often quoted by Malcolm Muggeridge.
“Therefore the vigorous working of your imagination, which is always so active . . . must as often be suppressed. Unless you suppress it, it will suppress you.” The Cloud of Unknowing
"Sad looks spring from egoism, from thinking about oneself to the exclusion of others, from laziness in one's work, from lack of mortification, from the search for small self-indulgences, from carelessness in one's relationship with God." Francis Fernandez
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl." H.L. Mencken