Miscellaneous

Bullets Attention GKC fans: Chesterton Pilgrimage to Rome [http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en&gl=us#m_23]. November 12-20. $3,700 from JFK. The deadline for registration passed, but they've extended it a few days. Dale Ahlquist is leading. I know Dale personally. He'

140 Million Served Our country has 308 million people. It turns out that 165 million are full or partial dependents of the government (including 107 million welfare recipients and 22 million government employees) [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/art-cashin-new-normals-new-populism-165-million-state-dependents] . That's a major problem. It means the majority of

Church Fathers and Hunter Thompson (Yes, Unrelated Posts) I need to get back and read the first generation of church fathers again. I used to dip in and out of their writings (guided primarily by Quasten--see below), but got out of the habit. Sites like this remind me that they

The container garden is shaping up. I took this pic yesterday. * * * * * * * Key element of container gardening: Herbs and spices (what's the difference?) go in traditional containers; vegetables go only in self-watering containers. Vegetables that don't set fruit, like spinach and kale, could probably go in a

"If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are." Mother Teresa And if things do touch you? I'm afraid that means you're not humble, and if they hit you hard, you're probably proud

Not much today. Marie and the kids are going to Frankenmuth, Michigan, for the annual Bavarian Music Fest. I typically join them, but I'm staying home this year. I'm simply tired. It's been a brutal past couple of weeks, and with school year activities

Well, it's not a holiday, but it is a Holy Day--and I'm swamped at the office--so blogging today is light. Just this little present from me to you: Elvis at TCM, all day on Thursday [http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&sdate=

Miscellany So Romney chooses Paul Ryan. Alright, I'll vote in November. I hardly consider myself part of a Republican base that Romney is trying to mobilize, and I still think voting in national elections is mostly a waste of time and signals approval for a system that has

"The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule." G.K. Chesterton

Letters to Children There are many places you can read about the real purpose of money, but I enjoyed the insight offered by a group of writers from the 1920s and 1930s known as the Agrarians, a group of writers and poets from Vanderbilt who criticized American culture. I can&