Friday Not much today. It's been a brutal week. On top of office frenzy, my two eldest are home for spring break, so I'm trying to spend as much time with them as possible, but it's also District basketball tournament time, and son Jack'
Thursday 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
Wednesday Happy Birthday Happy birthday to my lovely wife, Marie. I won't mention her age, but I will mention that, last Fall, while working at a long-running county fair food booth fundraiser, an elderly man remarked to her, "It's good to see you high school kids
Tuesday Detroit I posted the following recently to an online group: > After watching Sugar Man, I went online to try to check out his old haunts. I started "dropping pins" on Google Maps, which enable you to get street views. It was pretty interesting to see ordinary Detroit
Monday Catholics and Friends in Logic "Catholicism is logical." That was the warning uttered by Daniel Webster to Orestes Brownson when the lawyer saw young Orestes browsing a Catholic work in a bookstore. The Protetant Webster was telling him, "Don't wander too deep into those waters,
Something for Sunday Morning "'Be perfect' . . . This is not just advice from the master, but an imperative command." Francis Fernandez
Saturday Bullets Best headline yesterday: "Coffee Shop Is Plagued By Violent Homeless Crowds [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/02/28/manager-says-chelsea-coffee-shop-is-plagued-by-violent-homeless-crowds/] ." The descriptive headline pretty much says it all. * * * * * * * Time to become an Indians fan: Cleveland Indians lower prices on hot dogs, beer and other concessions [http://sports.yahoo.
Friday BYCU (Kinda) Based on her credentials [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brown], I think it's safe to say Tina Brown leans pretty heavily to the left. Because she leans left, it seems safe to say that her publication, The Daily Beast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_
Thursday 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
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