Saturday, February 28, 2009

have dinner with your family

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The most serious and dangerous challenge for Christians today is not precisely the loss of faith and religious practice among the fallen awa...
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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never...

OK, OK

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Alright, you got me. As an alert reader pointed out, no moratorium was placed on photos of other members of the Jessica Simpson family, so h...

attention readers:

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behind the scenes there has been just an unbelievable amount of sniping about Jessica Simpson. Although I'm sure Bethany meant well, she...

Now this is the truth

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Now this is the truth. We humble people, we who feel ourselves sometimes so worthless-so good for nothing. We are not so worthless as we thi...
Thursday, February 26, 2009

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treat yourself: want to hear the perfect marriage of music & text?

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We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

advice from C. Chute

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Carolyn Chute and husband For thousands of years we grew our own food. In two or three generations those skills have been stripped from us. ...

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I would like to tell you a story. In 1969, just after my conversion, Our Lord through an uncanny chain of events led me to work in an instit...

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In his essay, “The Exact Location of the Soul,” Dr. Selzer invites us into the operating room where he is to operate upon a young diabe...

other sheep have I

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This week featuring: COLUMBIA
Friday, February 20, 2009

Give up all hope ye satirists

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When Americans were asked whom they admired enough to call their No. 1 hero, the majority of respondents answered "President Obama....
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confidence contestants!

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"I have confidence that spring will come again" --Fraulein Von Trapp-Andrews (the award money is still in my account)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Is U.S. broke?

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The earthquake will come via a collapse in the market for U.S. government bonds as domestic and foreign investors realize that the only way ...

the new book burning

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Book burning in Opera Square, Berlin, May 10, 1933. It’s hard to believe, but true: under a law Congress passed last year aimed at regulatin...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Whoa!

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I meant, Wow. Ms. Richards' interesting and fact-filled report wasn't up on the blog for 10 minutes before I starting being deluged...

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American collectivism, traveling under the banners of liberalism and feminism, has been less audacious (and, fortunately, less powerful) tha...

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This may be how God prefers to speak to us, not with spectacular public signs whose meaning nobody can miss or deny, but with an ambiguity t...

Thank you, Bep

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We are happy to announce that Irene's Mustache was one of the lucky beneficiaries of the recently-passed "Don't Call It a Bail-...
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important public notice

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What follows is the complete Wikipedia entry for the song, "Wolverton Mountain," surely one of the high points of Western cultura...
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the secret meaning of "deseret"

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"I heard that every night he conducted something called a beehive, and I loved the sound of this beehive, so a night or two before we w...

we CAN put an end to war someday

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"I didn't get to use the bathroom, though. I was fixing to... but right out in them pines I heard one gobble.... ...

keep off the lawn

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According to Thorstein Vebelen, a lawn is merely status symbol, a display of conspicuous expenditure meant to demonstrate that its owner can...
Saturday, February 14, 2009

grass

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A child said, "what is the grass?" fetching it to me with full hands; I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopefu...

View from the top

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The happiness of the great consists only in thinking how happy others must suppose them to be. --Francis Bacon

amish way

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Under a truly free order, the economic incentives bind the generations of a family tightly together. Each generation has a vested interested...
Friday, February 13, 2009

behold the man

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--Vermeer, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, ca. 1655 [Frank] Sheed is far from the first to point out that four amateur writers coul...

little miracles

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Gioacchino Assereto, Christ Healing a Blind Man , ca. 1640 Even in his miracles Jesus falls short of both pagan and Hebrew models of heroism...
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Talking World War III Blues

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Bob Dylan See:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F7SxpxgpRg Some time ago a crazy dream came to me, I dreamt I was walkin' into World War ...

reputedly oldest Jewish joke

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The story concerns Eleazar, a Jew in Roman times, 100 B.C.E., who finds himself before the gates of heaven, ready to meet his maker, when he...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

dead horse, Arizona, 1940

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Lines from the Antigone The wonders of this world are numberless, but none of them more wonderful than man who broke the spirit of the mount...

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Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committe...

Nation Shocked By Pre-Natal Shooting

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I may have shared this with some of you before. It still shocks. Sometimes I can't even believe this is the same country I grew up in. E...

my unfunny valentine

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I thought my readers would be interested to know that good ole' Irene still has not found it in her heart to forgive or forget (to her, ...
Monday, February 9, 2009

state of the union

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Let us make no mistake: we live in a totalitarianism. The Bill of Rights notwithstanding, no area of your life is safe from the encroachment...
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Old African saying: "The death of an old person is like the burning of a library."
Sunday, February 8, 2009

younger brother makes good

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In his home country of Denmark, actor Mads Mikkelsen repeatedly has been named "the sexiest man alive." For such a gifted, serious...

Yeshi Donden

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On the bulletin board in the front hall of the hospital where I work, there appeared an announcement. “Yeshi Dhonden,” it read, “will make ...

reflections on faith

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The call to faith is a summons to engage the heart, to attune it to resonate in sympathy with principles and values and ideals that we devou...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

the reformer

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Chesterton: "It is futile to discuss reform," he says, "without reference to form." He complains of "the modern an...

motab needs a new signature

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Blasphemy in Song By some mistake no one could explain, there snuck into the green hymn book a wee bit of blasphemy. We speak, of course, of...
Friday, February 6, 2009

and you thought you knew it all

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O Cheese: In the pantry the dear dense cheeses, Cheddars and harsh Lancashires; Gorgonzola with its magnanimous manner; the clipped speech o...
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