Tuesday, April 21, 2009

very funny, very sad

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Kevin Tibbles, an NBC News reporter in Chicago, recently bemoaned what he considered the remarkable decline of Notre Dame University since i...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

there otta be a law

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The late Harry Browne reminded us that, whenever we advocate a new law or regulation, we should always remember that it will almost certainl...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Jack and me

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Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. Mark Twain -- Life on the Mississippi
Friday, April 10, 2009

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[My father's] common salutation of his family or friends, on the Lord's day in the morning, was that of the primitive Christians: ...

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--Goya Hard it is, very hard, To travel up the slow and stony road To Calvary, to redeem mankind; far better To make but one resplendent mir...

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"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeatin...
Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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The political class has failed us. At every level, they have failed us. Republican and Democrat, they have failed us. Liberal, conservative ...

bep, liz, kathryn, zippy, rico, mahana et al

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P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster tells us all we need to know about aunts: "It is no use telling me that there are bad aunts and goo...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

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Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got t...

actual quote from dear leader

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"[I]n case there are still nagging doubts [about the future of GM and Chrysler], let me say it as plainly as I can – if you buy a car f...

in his own tongue

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"The greatest barrier to successful evangelism is not theological but cultural. We don't have to look very far to see what he means...
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If there had anywhere appeared in space Another place of refuge where to flee, Our hearts had taken refuge from that place, ...

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God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. .. St. Augustine

trendlines

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The premises of the New Deal control the ground and direction of American social, economic, and political life. These premises are now ident...
Thursday, April 2, 2009

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A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship.... The best introdu...

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All our actions and our thoughts must follow such different courses depending on whether there are eternal rewards to hope for or not, that ...

approaching Good Friday

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Andreas Manegna, 1480 "It is finished." It is hard for us to know the intonation with which these words of the dying Christ were...
Wednesday, April 1, 2009

read this book

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Vincent van Gogh's Corn Fields and Poppies Time to get ready for summer by reading out of the best books, including, prominently, Dandel...

call for resumes

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Days after GM's CEO Rick Wagoner was forced out by the Obama administration, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner boasted: "We...

facebook

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The New York Tribune once observed of General Ulysses S. Grant's "immobile, heavy, and expressionless" visage that it was ...

more Robert Frost on current events

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I should hate to spend the only life I was going to have here in being annoyed with the time I happened to live in. --Robert Frost

more Brigham Young on current events

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Our traditions have been such that we are not apt to look upon war between two nations as murder; but suppose that one family should rise up...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Torso of an Archaic Apollo

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We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a l...

meet the mormons

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In 1861, at a meeting of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, Dr. Samuel Cartwright and Professor C. G. Forshey gave an amazing account of t...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

the sound of a shaken leaf

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One of the “covenant curses” is curiously descriptive of the jittery culture of fear in which we now live: But if they will not hearken unto...

the new reality

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In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications...
Monday, March 23, 2009

As part of our continuing

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series on Asian painting, isn't this wonderful: Pine Forest by Hasegawa Tohaku

Here's Brigham:

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Description by his counselor in the presidency: Salt Lake City, Utah Territory To the New York Herald Dear Sir: I can’t undertake to explain...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

the penitent magdalen

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" /> georges de la tour (1630). Easter treat.

morgan filly

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Catching a catfish with a gourd

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by Josetsu (15th century) Zen monks believed that meditating upon an impossible task provided a useful means to enlightenment. Worked for me...

The lingering stench

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In 1992, just after the fall of the Soviet Union, Jonathan Brent seized a unique opportunity that, if not for him, would doubtless have been...

what would I have done, asks Hitler authority

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The attempt that came closest to toppling Hitler, that of Claus von Stauffenberg in July 1944, was the culmination of a conspiracy of extrao...

Psalms 12:4--"our lips are our own"

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Our new consumer advocate/reporter, Marvis Wilcoxson, gives a rare "five seahorse" (§§§§§)rating to this new informative site: htt...
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Yi Chong (1541–1622) Ink Bamboo
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

"Science & Technology" by B. Richards

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Our field reporter, Ms. Bethany Richards, has been reassigned from "general interest" to our science and technology beat. She just...
Monday, March 16, 2009

from the lazlo letters:

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From: Lazlo Toth ...... January 12, 1991 To: President, Preparation H Dear Mr. President, I have seen commercials for your product on televi...

Thus the World Was Lost

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From Milton Mayer's book, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45: Mayer tells the story of a chemical engineer, who brought M...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

a privilege to believe

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"To be a rock, a bastion of surety, revelation must be something on which one can count and receive in every occasion of real need. I b...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

update on stefano

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A sympathetic photographer recently sent me this candid shot of her highness. I guess things aren't working out so great with Stefano af...

another younger brother makes good

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International race car driver Andreas Mikkelsen at work.

those loveable, wacky romans!

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Celebrated classics professor Mary Beard has brought to light a volume more than 1,600 years old, which she says shows the Romans not to be ...