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A Day in the Life of Ivan Illich We haven't mentioned the Terri Schiavo case, primarily because many other worthy bloggers are doing a fine job covering it. We will say, however, that the whole affair reminds us of the central tenets of Ivan Illich's criticism

Romano Guardini on Palm Sunday "The hour overflows with supernatural power. In these last days it is as if Jesus were gathering strength on strength preparing for the ultimate. He has just summoned Lazarus from the dead. His power has accompanied the disciples into the world, so that at

Roman Ranger Rick on the Right Catholic congressmen are meeting to discuss Catholicism [http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031505/santorum.html] . We encourage any serious efforts to educate folks about the Catholic faith. Most Protestants understand about one-fourth of Catholicism, and most Catholics's understanding

Tent City A friend sent us this 2004 story [http://www.fenrir.com/free_stuff/columns/callcops/ctc-268.htm] about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail creation, "Tent City." We'd heard of it, but didn't know any details. Sounds like a neat set up,

Nerd War We like Wikipedia, but we don't rely on it much. We mostly use it to confirm our memory; we are uncomfortable accepting uncorroborated information from it. For those not acquainted with this on-line encyclopedia, it is written and edited by anyone who wants to write and

The Weekend Eudemon Eric Scheske has had a good twelve hours. No baby yet, but he killed seven beers in anticipation. Also, Vermont, Bucknell, and Villanova all won yesterday. Eric drafted all three in an NCAA basketball team auction earlier this week. Their victories have advanced Eric's dreams

The Chesterbelloc G.K. Chesterton blogs have come and gone, but we've never seen a Chesterbelloc blog. It looks like one has been started. Named On Nothing after an entertaining essay by Hilaire Belloc, it's less than one week old. LINK [http://onnothing.blogspot.com/] It

AMA Alternative Perhaps all Christians should ask their doctors: Do you belong to the AMA or the CMA? "Do we want to reinforce the fear that the infirm are no more than a burden on the healthy? We need to send a message that even in our darkest hours,

Music and (Very Little) Talk Radio Here's a WSJ article [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB111111009578183338-IdjfYNjlaN4opynbIGHb62Fm5,00.html] about the radio industry's Canutin' efforts with regard to iPod and satellite radio (and, as pointed out in an article linked here Tuesday, additional electronic

The Wizard of Os Os Guinness has written a new book: Unspeakable: Understanding & Resisting Evil in an Age of Genocide & Terrorism. Christianity Today interviewed him about the book [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/110/42.0.html]. Here's a nice nutshell statement from Guinness about