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Something for Sunday Morning Be Still The spiritual state of stillness has fortified Christians throughout history. The teenage Origen (the first great Christian intellectual) stationed himself on the road where Christian martyrs were being led to their deaths and defied the Romans by saluting the victims with a kiss. When

Director of Mental Waste Ah, those public school educators. They're always thinkin'. Scottsdale, Arizona public schools have changed some of their job titles. They don't have a receptionist, for instance. They have a "Director of First Impressions." Bus Driver? No longer, you'

Blog Survey A blog reader survey is up [http://www.blogads.com/survey/2005_blog_reader_survey.html]. Based on 30,000 responses, the survey says blog readers tend to make decent money (over 60% make $60,000+ per year; over 40% make $90,000+); they tend to be male

On Teddy's Virility Good essay by Harvey Mansfield [http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/mar05/mansfield.htm] about Teddy Roosevelt's manliness. Here are two excerpts: In a notable chapter of his Autobiography entitled “Outdoors and Indoors,” Roosevelt says that love of books and love of outdoors

Equal Rights Shooting A reader points out to us: "In all the TV and newspaper coverage of the Fulton County fiasco in which a judge, a stenographer, and a deputy were shot, did you once read that the deputy who was overpowered and whose gun was taken was a

Silly Satanists For those who missed it and are interested in the subject, here's a link [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=27763] to Eric Scheske's piece about the ridiculousness of Satanism.

More TV-B-Gone The Old Oligarch [http://old-oligarch.blogspot.com/] weighed in on the TV-B-Gone earlier this week: "I need one of these. I ditched the TV when I went to college and never went back. Once I turned it on again in the summertime, I saw exactly how insipid,

The Weekend Eudemon Moderation? Novel Concept "A Maine college takes an unusual approach to curbing drinking: allowing students who are over 21 to drink wine and beer with dinner on campus. The policy is an unconventional method at trying to convey lessons on moderate drinking." Now, if we

Drunken Fun on the Farm Let's hope the anti-firewater brigade doesn't get a hold of this one: A new study finds that "every 10 percent increase in the excise tax on beer reduces the gonorrhea rate by 4.7 percent among males aged fifteen to

Star Wars in Hell Back in the 1970s, Russell Kirk prohibited any discussion of Star Wars at his dinner table. Though he admires Kirk, Eric Scheske didn't follow his example, and now his four oldest children, especially the two middle boys, are crazy about the series. The last