Ah, that's why no one around me converts: > Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize. @Pontifex [https://twitter.com/Pontifex] > — N. Catholic Register (@NCRegister) January 24, 2015 [https://twitter.com/NCRegister/status/559033345494220801]

This Pope has given me some pause, but the rabbit comment didn't bother me. I think he basically said what everyone (well, every informed Catholic) already knows: You can use NFP to help regulate the size of your family if you have legitimate reasons for using it. The

H.I.F: Interesting Corroborative evidence about the innate goodness of natural family planning: "Men who find themselves in the company of fertile women are more likely to make creative attempts at sentence structure to signify their mating fitness, a study has found. Researchers discovered that when young men

"The Lamps are Going Out [http://takimag.com/article/the_lamps_are_going_out_theodore_dalrymple/print#axzz3PBPs3C7L] ." Pretty good piece by Theodore Dalrymple. Almost as an aside, he summarizes the socio-political problems with fiat money. There's a lot to think about packed into this

Everyone should go to college [http://i.imgur.com/1Xnsgpr.jpg]. Funny pic.

Brews You Can Use There's been some pretty good BYCU material out there this year. If your garden, like mine, has volunteer borage all over the place, consider this: borage fizz [http://www.kcet.org/living/food/the-public-kitchen/cocktail-recipe-borage-fizz.html] . My youngest son,

This is the cover of the Second Mencken Chrestomathy. I wish I knew more about art. I really like this picture, but I don't know why:

A Random Passage This HLM passage cracked me up for some reason: "Once, in a Madrid café, the two of us encountered a Spanish marquis who wore celluloid cuffs, suffered from pediculosis and had been drunk for sixteen years." Teachout, ed., The Second Mencken Chrestomathy. _______________ Great book, btw:

There's a viral video of a girl twerking in a moving car. She ends up falling out of the car. Hopefully she's covered by twerker's compensation.

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