Miscellaneous

"[O]ur five transcendental desires for perfect truth, love, goodness, beauty, and being (home) will continue to affect us whether we acknowledge them or not. We will still want to know everything about everything, even if we abandon the pursuit of truth; still desire perfect love, even if we

Miscellaneous Rambling Correction: Providence College is not Jesuit. It's Dominican. I guess I just assumed it venerated the black pope: it has a good basketball team and it's Leftist. My apologies. Speaking of Dominicans, I guess they're fond of this joke: The Dominicans were

Miscellaneous Rambling The poster boy for intolerance, Anthony Esolen, is this year's commencement speaker at Hillsdale College [https://www.hillsdale.edu/event/165th-commencement-ceremony/]. Good for him. I don't know him personally, but by all accounts, he's a real decent guy. What the Leftist robots

I was absolutely swamped at the office last week, so when Trump fired Comey, I didn't have time to read anything about it at first. Instead, I simply caught blurbs here and there. I was thinking, "Boy, it really looks like Trump did it this time. This

Wow, full-on life blitz: office, family, garden. Every May, I say, "This May won't be so brutal like the past." And every May, I'm wrong. The number of obligations is stunning . . . and wearying. Fortunately, I continue to make time for a few weekday Masses

From the Gardening Journals The garden chronicles continue. On Monday, I got a half acre scraped off, which I was stoked to see. I then went out right after work to start churning the soil. I ran into a phenomenon that locals call "Sturgis top soil." I guess

“Live all you can, as complete and full a life as you can find–do as much as you can for others. Read, work, enjoy–love and help as many souls, do all this. Yes, but remember, be alone, be remote, be away from the world, be desolate. Then you

More Miscellaneous Rambling So, you don't know much about the Armenian genocide? You might want to consider learning about it. Incredibly sad. It was recently the subject of a Tom Woods Show podcast [http://tomwoods.com/ep-899-the-armenian-genocide/], which I recommend. This kind of thing really grates on me:

Miscellaneous Rambling This is, quite frankly, a no-brainer: Kansas City archdiocese breaks ties with Girl Scouts [http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=15513]. I should say, "It's a no-brainer on intellectual grounds." The Girl Scouts has deep, emotional ties with many good people. It&