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Summary of Life
From a relative, an e-mail with wry advice: GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.. When your Mom is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush...
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Pumpkin Pecan custard: Rapturously good.
Relying on the end of the world, as predicted yet again by Harold Camping, I enjoyed some Culver’s Flavor of the Day, Pumpkin Pecan. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Or gone to heaven without...
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Putting “Christ” in “Black Friday.”
Social conservatives will soon be “trying to take Christmas back” or to “put Christ in Christmas.” Perhaps they’ll be calling, again, for boycotts of stores that don’t say “Merry Christmas.” I’ll not...
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Tofu Tidbits* 1/28/11
Sharp-dressed men. Post-peak living. Making a federal case of it. Spend it or save it? * Temporarily renamed in honor of the Nativity Fast, about which Mystagogy has some more information. 1 (HT: Put...
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Tofu Tidbits* 11/30/11
5 Best Toys Ever. Life, or just a bucket list? The Thing That Used to Be Conservatism. Pecking order. Occupy something other than a job. In the name of national security. New link. * Temporarily...
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G.K. Chesterton on Biblicism
Catholic writer/blogger Mark Shea today delivered up this Chestertonian gem, in response to a question about the Dan Brown-ish sort of ”lost gospels” nonsense, and how Evangelicals who get a lot of...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Vote for X, It’s Important. Hubris without a bang. Christianity colonized. Deplorable humor. 1 In 1991, after two racketeering trials, Edwin Edwards faced KKK Grand Dragon David Duke in a runoff...
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Weirdsday, 10/31/12
Weird 1 Orality, the New Testament, and Holy Tradition. Weird 2 This Old Farm. 1 2 C’mon! Don’t be bashful! The same reasons Darrell Bock cites for the reliability of the Gospels apply to Holy...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Two ways about it. Flashback. Don’t try this at home. Pattern-Seeking Sinner. 1 During the inaugural festivities, which included the Louie Giglio kerfuffle (at least in my mind), it occurred to me...
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Dietary Just So Stories
I was a husky boy. I realized that when they steered Mother to a particular section of blue jeans at Silver’s Mens and Boys Wear where the clothes were labeled “Husky.” They used to have stores like...
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Priceless Chestertonia
I was grasping for how to say something when it occurred to me that G.K. Chesterton had already said it (see #1). Trying to look it up, I was reminded how much else he said so very, very well. Indeed,...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Do computers dream of electric sleep? Might Evangelicals catch up with the 8th Century? Vanderbilt Law Alumnus of the Year? Obama’s best day? The blessing of the chariots 1 Sleep … is a standing...
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Give backwardness a chance! A finely callibrated crap detector R.I.P. Robert Bellah 1 Artur Rosman was born in Warsaw, but is secretly Krakovian. He is husband, father of three, and translator of...
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Tidbits 9/20/13
Defending by annihilating Roots, Limits, Love Varieties of Conservative Experience I’ll never fuse with this kind of Conservative What’s Worship for II? How to figure out whose Ferrari that is 1...
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Storefront Churches
Our local dead tree newspaper had a story on storefront Churches today. The pastors seemed quite pleased to be doing something so edgy. “It helps us connect with people who are uncomfortable with...
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Friday, November 1, 2013
Captain Justice, Guardian of the Realm and Leader of the Resistance Rotten to the core Reformation Day Paralipsis The consequence of not fixing Obamacare What if your car gets Type I diabetes?...
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Where are you when we need you, Sherlock?
The Hobart, Indiana man who committed suicide by 32 hammer blows to his own head has a new kindred spirit: a claustrophilic British Spy who accidentally killed himself by locking himself in a gym bag...
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Coffeedoxy
Get out the French press, brew a steaming mug of your best, and sit back to enjoy Coffeedoxy and Heterodoxy, a whimsical guide to most major heresies of the last two millennia. Be sure to click through...
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