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No Internet today (just got a connection five minutes ago). It's at least the fifth time my Charter Communications connection has gone down this year. I hope to blog later today, but it might not be until tomorrow.

Opening day 2007. The American League champs will host Toronto at 1:05 (EDT). I'm looking forward to it. I'm hoping tickets are available during the season. Trailers from low-budget movies in the 1970s [http://www.trailerclub70.com/]. Man, there's some funny stuff here.

Comments have been activated on all posts. It's very user-friendly: no log-in, no drunken letters and numbers to key-in, no pre-approval. It'll ask for your email and URL, but you can ignore that.

Caleb Stegall has written a great review of the book. I should have posted this link [http://www.godspy.com/issues/A-Call-To-Arms-Look-Homeward-America-Bill-Kauffman-by-Caleb-Stegall.cfm] sooner. Excerpt: > In Look Homeward, America, Bill Kauffman offers a detailed and often idiosyncratic look at the “real split” underlying American society and politics. To paraphrase

Outdoor reading, Knights of Columbus fish fry, drinking club yesterday. Wife and kids gone for the weekend, Final Four games, and more outdoor reading today. It's a good weekend. Call me a nerd, but I was so excited about my free day that I woke up at 3:

Interesting post over at Ignatius Insight [http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2007/03/von_balthasar_a.html] about the attempts of one man to bring new age-type practices under the roof of the Catholic Church. Excerpt: > Born in 1900 in Russia, Valentin Tomberg was for many years an enthusiastic

Significant (Nestorian) Christian presence in China by 700 AD? Interesting stuff in the current issue of Touchstone [http://touchstonemag.com:80/archives/article.php?id=20-03-030-f]. Hats off to these renegades: Just as speakeasies arose in the 1920s, smoke-easies are beginning to crop up in this new age of prohibition

Abbreviated blogging today. My computer has been pulled, awaiting a replacement. I have computer access, but it's not as efficient as my regular computer. The new issue of Books & Culture arrived. The cover story: Mt. Athos [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/002/4.16.html]. Very

The Greeks knew acoustics, too [http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070319/full/070319-16.html]. Pretty wild. Courtesy of LewRockwell [http://www.lewrockwell.com/]. Excerpt: > Its acoustics are extraordinary: a performer standing on the open-air stage can be heard in the back rows almost 60 metres away. Architects and

Susan Sontag once described a polymath as someone who is interested in everything and nothing else. I'm not a polymath, but I'm interested in all sorts of things. Occasionally, I even take an interest in art and architecture, so I found this opinion piece [http://www.