Miscellaneous

I wasn't going to vote for Trump, but according to Catholic radio this morning, he said last night that we need to do much, much more for the Middle East Christians and we need to stop the in-flow of non-citizen Muslims. The man may have just gotten my

What the hell has Europe done to itself? "On the heels of State Department spokesman John Kirby's renewed proclamation that "US is committed to admitting more refugees," we thought this brief clip from France's picturesque Mantes La Jolie (in the western suburbs of

Miscellaneous Rambling Sign the Target boycott petition [https://www.afa.net/action-alerts/sign-the-boycott-target-pledge/]. [https://www.afa.net/action-alerts/sign-the-boycott-target-pledge/] Lol: The AFA has been listed as an extremist group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that monitors hate groups. The AFA “has been extremely vocal over the years

From the Notebooks Conservatism is the response to the liberal's efforts to replace God. More particularly, conservatism is the attempt to push the immutable truths–the human condition, natural law, the rule of law, objective morality–back into the public sphere, in opposition to the myriad of liberal

Whew, packed weekend. Irregular blogging coming up, but bear with me.

(From Crystal Zevon's warts-aplenty 2007 portrait of her ex-husband, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, comes this account of the Zevons' child-custody dispute: “Warren got on the phone; he was obviously drunk. . . . He said, 'I'm to the right of your father

Release your inner homosexual: > A probar https://t.co/fXT1BgbTHl > — In Situ (@Insitumezcal) April 20, 2016 [https://twitter.com/Insitumezcal/status/722926911060590592] I'll be releasing this weekend with some Electric Lemonade. My basic mix: "Fill a Collins glass with ice. Pour in vodka, blue curacao

H.I.F. You ever wonder how you get away with that wretched signature of yours on credit card acknowledgements? > In his book, Prank the Monkey, humorist John Hargrave recounts a wonderfully hilarious experiment he conducted that is, importantly, quite capable of being repeated on a massive scale. Hargrave

Chesterton Short(s) It sounds like the 2016 G.K. Chesterton Conference [http://www.chesterton.org/35th-annual-chesterton-conference/] is going to be a humdinger. It's being held at Slippery Rock University, which is about 4.5 hours from me. I'm tempted to register, but I'm

More Miscellaneous Rambling I wear a pedometer. On Saturday, I gardened almost the entire day, taking brief walking breaks. By 6:00 (start of evening Mass), I had logged in 18,000 steps. I'm hoping the constant activity, punctuated with days of outright exercise, will allow me to