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Wednesday

Not much today. We held our pumpkin-carving family party last night. I'm whipped. I did, however, salvage enough time to read this neat little essay by Lew Rockwell: What We Can Learn From the Middle Ages [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/world-of-salamanca158.html]. The School of Salamanca has

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Egalitarianism in the Hierarchy "The nonchalantly polite but nevertheless free interclass manners in the Catholic world are the natural consequence of a conventional (nonideological) egalitarianism, based on the profound knowledge that our final status--on the other side of the grave--will be basically different from our present one. Furthermore, because

Hip, Kangaroos, and More

Hip Me with Your Best Shot Professor Charles Rice at Notre Dame liked to tell us, "You don't have to wear a pony tail and sandals to be counter-cultural. You just have to be a good Catholic." So I was a little disappointed (not surprised at

Feature Essay

Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed its fury on the God Man, that wicked man was freed to go. We don't know what happened to him, but on

Monday Miscellany

Last night we finally had our first family dinner of 2008. We were sitting around eating and chatting about our upcoming summer vacation to the Black Hills and Yellowstone. I told the kids that we would be in the van for many, many hours, and thought that maybe we could

Short Post Day

No real blogging today. I went to 300 last night, got to bed late, and now I'm scrambling. I enjoyed the movie, incidentally, but it wasn't great. I'd give it a 6. Possibly the most violent thing I've seen (and I include

No Eudemon

No happy spirit this morning. Our parochial school held its annual Mardi Gras party last night. I didn't get to sleep until after 1:30. When you consider I normally go to bed at 9:00, it was a very late night for me. For occasions just like

The Tuesday Eudemon

The Atlantic Monthly came yesterday. All sorts of good stuff. The issue revolves around the most influential Americans of all time [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200612/influentials-main]. There's the top 100, plus a bunch of sidebar articles on the most influential poets, filmmakers, etc. A few great

Brews You Can Use II

Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer [http://www.ambitiousbrew.com/]. I'm neither endorsing nor condemning. It just seems like a publishing effort worthy of mention at this blog.

It's All Relative?

Even CNN admits that the Aztecs deserved the wrath of Cortez: > Aztecs butchered, ate invaders. This grisly story is from today's online edition of CNN. Domestic nations have tried many tactics over the ages to repel invading armies. The Aztecs were no different and a recent find