Saturday, December 31, 2005

(Mis)quoting GKC

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ACS' Dale Ahlquist corrects/helps Fr. Neuhaus at First Things .
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Friday, December 30, 2005

On Cornhusker Cuisine

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Hilaire Belloc recalled, while walking through France, the cooking he ate in Omaha, Nebraska. He thought it likely the worst he had taken (...
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Almost a Friend of Bill?

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A portrait of Cheslea Clinton, done in colored pencil and portraying the teenager as a heavenly angel, can be seen hanging in Hillary Clinto...
Monday, December 26, 2005

A Waugh Christmas

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Evelyn Waugh liked to send out satirical Christmas cards, and the apex (or nadir] of this practice was reached during the Christmas season o...
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In Advance of the Times

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I WAS reflecting in the course of the recent feast of Christmas (which, like other feasts, is preceded by a fast) that the combination is st...
Sunday, December 25, 2005

A Christmas Carol

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The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Ch...
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Friday, December 23, 2005

Santa Claus

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I do not think that I myself was ever very much worried about Santa Claus, or that alleged dreadful whisper of the little boy that Father Ch...
Thursday, December 22, 2005

GKC on Christmas

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"What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business." ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Hilaire is Here

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The long awaited first issue of King's Land: A Home for Bellocian Thought arrived in my mailbox yesterday. King's Land is the jou...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Veteran Author with Perspective and Experience

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Dappled Things , "a new literary magazine dedicated to providing a space for young writers to engage the literary world from a Catholic...
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... far too long to recognize the truth ...

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Ian Vásquez, director at the Cato Institute , recently published an article about economic freedom in democracy. He cites our beloved Bello...
Monday, December 19, 2005

Bottum: "it's just too much"

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Joseph Bottum at First Things , December 17 : Something in the Christmas season rightly tempts us to such sentimental gilding, just as somet...
Friday, December 16, 2005

It Is Official!

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I'm a bit late noticing it but a little over a week ago, on December 8th, a blog was immaculately conceived: a blog of pure Chesterton,...
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Mind in Motion

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Christian History & Biography has an article that chronicles the conversion of C.S. Lewis. Several "friends of Chesterton" a...
Thursday, December 15, 2005

Gilbert is Here

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The new issue of Gilbert Magazine is out. I just got my copies today. I suspect they should be hitting mailboxes within the next day or two...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

A Christmas Garland

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A Christmas Garland by Max Beerbohm, first printed in 1912, is available at Gutenberg.org ( link ). Readers of this blog might enjoy some ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005

G.K. Chesterton: QOTD web page

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I've made a little web page to give a "quote of the day" from G.K. Chesterton. It grabs text from the University of Notre Dam...
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Monday, December 12, 2005

Greybeards at Play, online

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GKC's Greybeards at Play has been online for a long time, but I only just noticed it this weekend. You can find it at the University o...
Friday, December 09, 2005

Belloc the Out-of-Touch Crank?

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Blogimus Maximus wrote a post earlier this week about "intelligent design" and "evolution." In it he refers to Hilaire ...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

Thursday on Thursday, no.20

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"He's rationalistic, and, what's worse, he's rich. When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich....