History

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 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

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.

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

I'm not a "pro-Confederate" kind of guy, but I know enough history to know the South has been enormously maligned for the past 150 years (heck, the Abolitionists started it well before then). Consequently, I like to pass along neat pages like this when I

I greatly enjoy reading about the "Old Right": Nock, Mencken, Santayana, and other "superfluous men." They're no-nonsense men with uncompromising stances. They often had questionable morals (Mencken had a mistress; Nock left his wife), but they didn't discuss morality very much,

Mike Aquilina teaches readers about the Didache [http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/23/the-time-capsule/]. As always, a good, easy, and informative read.