GKC Wednesday

"If thy head offend thee, cut it off; for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell . . .". GKC, Orthodoxy I coincidentally re-read that

Fallon

A new poll found that two-thirds of Americans are following the situation in Ukraine, which is impressive. Usually, you can't find two-thirds of Americans who are following the situation in America.

Seeger

“I like to say I'm more conservative than [Barry] Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.” Pete Seeger. As

Meyers

A model is suing Playboy after something went wrong with a stunt where someone hit a golf ball off her butt. Even worse, it was a photo shoot for an article about feminism.

Happy Holidays

H.I.F. Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams pull their sponsorship of St. Patrick's Day Parades because organizers won't let LGBT groups carry pro-gay signs. Link [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/lgbt-groups-plan-protests-for-st-patricks-day-parade/] . So, if you&

Miserable Monday

Rod Dreher blogs about the pending death of the miserable Fred Phelps [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-miserable-end-of-fred-phelps/] , the man who can probably claim more credit than anyone else for the success of the homosexual cause in the public sphere. > I've always

Hoosier Land's Shame

Not a single Indiana team made it to the Tournament this year. Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame: shut out. All the other schools that have made Dance appearances in past years (Butler, Indiana State, Evansville, Valparaiso, Ball State, IUPUI): shut out.

Catch-Up Week Continues

Expect more posts about older links this coming week. I didn't get through my backlog last week.

Sunday

A Random Passage Even when the Ivy League had religion it was corrupt: "'Be Christians,' I once heard a president of Yale College cry to his assembled pupils, 'be Christians and you will be successful.'" George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States

Meyers

This week Pope Francis is celebrating his first anniversary as Pope, and he tweeted to his 3.7 million followers “Please pray for me.” I was a little surprised that he hashtagged it, “so hung over.”