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A collection of 253 issues

Wednesday

Colors When I grew up, I thought the old world (pre-I Love Lucy) was black and white. I knew, of course, that there was color before The Wizard of Oz, but when I thought about how things must've been like, my mind intuitively fell into shades of

BYCU

No time for blogging today, so I offer this six-pack of cool pics:

From the Notebooks

I like it when I run across a historian who supports Belloc's popular histories. For kicks, I recently started reading Simon Schama's A History of Britain. On page 45, he writes about the transition from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon Britain: A tidy compartmentalization of British

Tuesday

Rome Me I was a history major in college. Within my history major, I emphasized classical civilization: Greece, Rome, Byzantium. I loved the stuff, but that was many years ago, and I've forgotten a lot of what I learned. Last weekend, though, I stumbled across an amazing podcast:

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

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.

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

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