Signs of the Times
I've been seeing too many signs like this:
Eric Scheske
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My father has had a stroke. Please pray for a miracle. His name is Mel.
Thursday
Sobran
Great quote: "If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a
liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If
you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't
want government to intervene anywhere,
From the Notebooks
The Element of Class
I remember my Dad telling me that time preference is the best measure of class.
Class isn't based on race, nationality, religion, or money. The single-best
determining factor of class is the ability to forego short-term pleasure for the
sake of long-
Tuesday Miscellany
Random Thought
"My country, right or wrong" is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." That's
Chesterton, paraphrased.
I was reminded of it when I saw this quote during my evening surf last night:
"[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each
Something for Sunday Morning
"Only the man who is reconciled with God can also be reconciled and in harmony
with himself, and only the man who is reconciled with God and with himself can
establish peace around him and throughout the world." Benedict XVI
State cross-country meet
Michigan International Speedway.
Abbie (15) running today.
-- Mobile post
BYCU
Snobby Drinking Nerds
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. I can't say that "
Thursday
If Misery Loves Company . . .
I track Randall Forsyth's columns at Barron's. I typically don't care what
Warren Buffett has to say, so I wasn't much interested when I saw Forsyth's
most-recent column, "Has Buffett Overplayed His Hand?
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The Wednesday Eudemon
You Offended Him?!
I find this story from yesterday's New York Post
[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dolan_gives_the_times_holy_hell_C79kb04ndK2nKWVWLO8O0K]
significant: "New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has condemned The New York Times
-- blasting the Gray Lady and its columnist Maureen Dowd