Background music or TV with the sound on? The bar in English-speaking countries traces its roots back to Roman Britain where drinking establishments flourished. The establishments declined with Rome, but they came back in the Middle Ages, largely through the efforts of monasteries to provide for travelers. By the

Leaving I reached a momentous decision yesterday: I dropped the Drudge Report [https://www.drudgereport.com/] from my start-up pages in Google Chrome. I've for years enjoyed his libertarian leanings, with his kindly non-sectarian nod to the Catholic Church. He was, for me, what the Detroit

Face Masks in Northern Michigan Marie, five of our kids, and I took our annual trip to Alpena, Michigan for a long weekend. Five days. We normally go up in July or August for ten days, but weddings and other family exigencies have made the forecast pretty clear: virtually no

And that's where Belloc sits with many. Ignored and neglected. He rubbed people the wrong way while he was alive, too. His nasty wars with H.G. Wells are legendary, but even before the nastiness started, Wells didn't care for him. Wells cherished Chesterton's

Virtue or Vice? When it comes to one's own death, when does a person cross the line from abandonment to God's will (the finest thing) to reckless disregard for one's own health and life (a potential sin . . . Catechism 2288 [http://w2.vatican.va/archive/

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This Ain't Hard, People Crazy days. COVID, first grandchild, basement flood, habitual drunkenness. What's a guy to do? But I still have time to read tripe like this: “The last few months have laid bare the reality that, even before the pandemic hit, far too many

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