Monday, July 31, 2006

New D.Ahlquist Interview at I.Insight

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Carl Olson posted a new interview with Dale Ahlquist (president of the American Chesterton Society ): IgnatiusInsight.com : What are some of...
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Conflicted Round-up

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In what may very well be the best article of the month , rising star H.W. Crocker III lays down the law in a pithy and engaging manner, pull...
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Friday, July 28, 2006

The Death of Ulysses

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As some of you may remember, I won the American Chesterton Society's Gilbert & Frances Award last year for an essay I wrote which wa...
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Disastrous Round-up

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Welcome to Friday, for which we are waggishly enjoined to thank God. This, the day that sees more debauchery and dereliction of duty than an...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Round-up break

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As luck would have it, I have to deal with some stupid financial bureaucracy today, and I simply do not have the time to devote to a round-u...

Hilaire Belloc, born 27 July 1870

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Happy Birthday to Old Thunder: Myself, Grizzlebeard, Sailor, and Poet The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other: The moon is my siste...
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Short stories (I)

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In an earlier post, I mentioned that one of my goals was to read Volume XIV of Ignatius Press' Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Shor...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Marketing 101 with Professor Chesterton

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"Professor" Chesterton? Perhaps I shouldn't title him with that word; he would shudder. But sometimes a reference to Chester...

Kafkaesque Round-up

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Today's round-up is dedicated to the legendary Czech/Jewish writer Franz Kafka , who lived a hard life in many ways and died terribly fo...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Blasphemers and God

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Blasphemy would be no fun, if there was no God. Chesterton said something to that effect, and there's a lot of fun and God going around ...
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Bedtime Round-up

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I'm pushing a mighty thick envelope even to be posting anything at all right now, so don't go into this with high expectations. It h...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Brief Round-up

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I just got back from my weekend vacation, and things are not good. I got maybe six hours of sleep since Friday, and still have to work a sh...
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Friday, July 21, 2006

Public TV That Got Me Thinking

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My kids are yelling in the background, so forgive me if this is totally inarticulate...... A couple days ago, I watched a special on Public ...

A clerihew

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St. Francis of Assisi crossed deserts and the sea, see, to convert the sultan. He failed, but did inspire Chesterton.
Thursday, July 20, 2006

Scrutinous Round-up

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Matthew Lickona provides a short soliloquy that comes down hard on the Disney Girls. We've had the arguments before; pleasant (often sa...

Clerihew

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Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. This simple silly verse is commonly considered the fi...
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Succulent Round-up

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As a follow-up to the scandalous utterances (and motions) of one Charlotte Church, it is with a satisfied nod that I report to you that Ign...
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

GKC Pun

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Furor is doing a great job of keeping the blog active during this summer heat wave. I've been detained with sundry drinking matters and ...
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Infamous Round-up

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From the scathing pen of ages past springs a wonderful account from St. John of Damascus of the pseudo-Arian heresy of the false prophet ...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Notable Round-up

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The triumph of God is apparent in all things, and is often most recognisable in astonishing reversals. The conversion of Paul. The exaltatio...