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Wednesday

From the Notebooks From 2004 I suspect the act of reading may have become more difficult than the act of writing. Five (even two) years ago, I would've scoffed at the notion that reading is harder than writing. Now I'm not so sure. Why could that

Tuesday

Received in an Email 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . 3. She was

Seen on the Internet

"5% of Twitter users generate 75% of the Tweets."

Monday

From the Notebooks Christian Studies in Skepticism Significant: "Living in history, we experience only the present, the immediate. This is as it should be; it simplifies decision and directs action (for in this world only ignorance give us the freedom necessary to act)." Romano Guardini, The Lord, p.

Something for Sunday Morning

"The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else." Chesterton

Seen on the Internet

"Back in 1927, Lenin offered some shockingly prescient predictions for the century ahead: Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence."

Interesting

"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal tells the tale... "'Argentina's government has filed criminal charges against the managers of an economic consulting firm,' the paper reads, 'escalating its persecution of independent economists.' "Apparently a local firm, MyS Consultores, published

Friday

The Gift So I'm standing at my office window yesterday, talking with an acquaintance about some pro bono project (not my favorite thing--I'm still a few halos short of sainthood). The mailman walks in and hands me a package. My interlocutor must've thought

McLuhan is 100

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/marshall-mccluhan-at-100-you-know-nothing-of-my-work/

Thursday

Reader Comments Reader comments are beginning to come in. The most common theme: The book isn't what you'd expect. It's not a book about getting drunk and "barfin' all over your girlfriend's shoes" (The Eagles, "The Greeks Don&