Fallon
Hillary Clinton's supporters are calling on her to be more herself, after some
of her recent appearances seemed to be too scripted. Hillary said, "I don't know
where you guys get this stuff. Shrug and shake head."
Eric Scheske
Thursday
Ruminations on the Fall of Rome
Belloc wrote, “The Catholic Church was the only subsidiary organism that had
risen within the general body of the Roman Empire.” Belloc's idea that the
Catholic Church was an organism that grew out of the organism of the Empire is
important.
Combine
GKC Wednesday
Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine
[http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible
for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a
sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson
sent me a file full
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What, is it Tolkien's birthday? Another Tolkien blurb at a popular website
popped up today: 10 Good Dads Who Changed The World
[http://listverse.com/2014/09/16/10-good-dads-who-changed-the-world/]. Excerpt:
"2. J.R.R. Tolkien:
"Lots of dads tell their children bedtime stories, but Oxford professor
Humorous
H.I.F.
Twenty jokes for nerds
[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/billykangas/2014/03/20-jokes-for-nerds.html#ixzz3DCY5NYXA]
. A few of my favorites:
A Buddhist monk approaches a hotdog stand and says “make me one with
everything”.
A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a martinus.
“You mean
Interesting
H.I.F.
"TIL Christopher Lee received Tolkien's blessing to play the role of Gandalf, if
a movie was ever released, but he played Saruman instead. He was also the only
person involved with the Lord of the Rings films to have actually met Tolkien
himself."
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Can I ask an un-Catholic question? Are people in America really starving? My
priest assures me they are, so I obediently donate regularly to the parish food
pantry. The liberals assure us they are, since it's very hard to live on the
amount of money provided
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Sunday
> "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself
less." - C.S. Lewis pic.twitter.com/v9Ic73JjtV [http://t.co/v9Ic73JjtV]
> — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) September 8, 2014
[https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/508768301921869824]
Nice Way to Spend Saturday Evening
> Relaxing with a good book and an excellent glass of wine from the Machiavelli
fattoria... pic.twitter.com/BXV1z26DiM [http://t.co/BXV1z26DiM]
> — Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) September 11, 2014
[https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/510204408362438656]