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Tuesday

Miscellany Re: Yesterday's post. “The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” GKC Intriguing essay by Patrick J. Deneen at First Things: "The Ignoble Lie [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie]." I haven'

Monday

The Wing Ding The kids and I did it. We threw the mother of controlled wing dings Saturday night for Marie's 50th birthday. The kicker: It was a surprise party. And she was shell-shocked surprised. Friends and family came from Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago; her local friends showed

Happy St. Patrick's Day

For the Great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry And all their songs are sad. G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse.

Friday

Holiday Blogging TDE slows down for the holidays, and this secular holiday is one of the holiday-ist of all. The first Thursday and Friday of the NCAA Tournament are my two favorite sports days of the year. This pic shows Max getting the screens set up for Thursday night'

Thursday

From the Notebooks Rule of Culture: For every material action, there is a spiritual reaction. It's a testament to the sacramental nature of existence: body and soul, flesh and spirit, intertwined. Lots of examples. Most notably for today is St. Francis and St. Dominic in the 12th century:

Wednesday

Campanella In 1598 and 1599, a huge man named Tommaso Campanella organized a revolt in Calabria to free it from Spain. Campanella was a magician who believed that the stars and numbers portended revolution. He thought the new century would mark the dawn of a new age–an age with

Tuesday

Birthday Rambling Happy birthday to me! It's fitting that I share my birthday with heavy-hitter saints whose feast day is today: Gerald of Mayo and Roderic of Spain. Yeah, I'd never heard of them either. Sigh. Oh well, In lieu thereof, I'll dedicate the

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling I saw this tweet on Saturday: "I don't understand why we can't just lose this hour sometime during work on Monday." It was meant as humorous, but why not implement it on Monday during working hours? It's Monday afternoon at

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> Another busy night at all the British henge sites as staff work all night to move the stones forward by an hour. [//imgur.com/heSvI]

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> WhÐ°t a difference 26 years makes. Shanghai in 1987 and 2015 pic.twitter.com/h9bMs0d5AL [https://t.co/h9bMs0d5AL] > — History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/972559725475790853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]