Thursday, August 31, 2006

Modern education

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We have an interesting situation in a nearby town. A male high school science teacher has begun the process of changing his gender. He infor...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Mystical Imagination

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Frederick Meekins of the Conservative Voice has produced a new (and favourable) review of Gilbert's Orthodoxy . Be sure to check it ou...

New Belloc Book

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There's a new anthology of Belloc writings: The Eyewitness: an Anthology of Short Stories . You can find more information here . From th...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

New Gilbert is Here

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The newest edition of Gilbert Magazine arrived yesterday. It's a good one. I haven't read it all yet, but a quick overview: Sean Da...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Returning Round-up

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So, I have limited computer access once more, and though I won't have all of my files and such back for a bit, I can still post about th...
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Friday, August 25, 2006

A quick hit of infamy for you

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I've just stopped into an internet cafe on my way home from work to post about another blood-boiling epoch in the new curiously iconophi...
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Holy War, Just War, Jihad, and GKC

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Middle East events are dominating the news, and likely will not arrive at a state of detante for some time. Having spent a great deal of tim...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

Happy Birthday, Max

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The caricaturist and parodist "Mr. Max Beerbohm" was born 134 years ago today in some land called "London, England." Ou...
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The Sword of Surprise

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The Sword of Surprise G. K. Chesterton Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees; That I who...

Self-confidence (Orthodoxy)

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This past Spring I joined the Rochester Chesterton Society. I had actually first encountered the society years ago, but had lost track of th...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Orwell on GKC

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Jacintha Buddicam remembered fondly her youthful conversations with Eric Blair (George Orwell), a childhood friend, beginning in the year 19...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Mencken on GKC

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In a letter to Louis Untermeyer dated March 26, 1912 , H. L. Mencken asserts that he has grown tired of Chesterton's prose. "He has...
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The One Doctrine Which Can Be Proven.........

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According to GK Chesterton is the doctrine of Original Sin. If there is any one point which can be agreed upon by by Christians, Athiests, B...
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Monday, August 21, 2006

Bad news, gang

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Over the weekend, I had not one, but two computers die on me - my laptop and my PC. As such, I will not be able to post for at least a wee...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

A Softened State is the Infantilization of the Population

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The opinion commentator Mark Steyn gave the C.D. Kemp Lecture at the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne on Thursday. Here is a parag...
Thursday, August 17, 2006

Good neighbor policy

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The recent fighting in Southern Lebanon and Northern Israel got me to thinking about similar disputes. Protestant and Catholic in Northern I...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Art of Recitation

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Magnus Linklater wrote this in the Scotsman a few days ago: HALFWAY through Mary Kenny's play, Allegiance, currently playing on the Fri...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Special Bulletin: Benedict XVI Quotes Gilbert!

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In a recent interview - the first of its kind ever granted by a Pope - Benedict XVI demonstrated his splendid glory by quoting (well, parap...
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"Restaurant Music is an Insult..."

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Every now and then I run across a newspaper article vaguely quoting Chesterton as saying "restaurant music is an insult to the cook and...
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Chesterton on YouTube

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The Peculiar People is a small theatrical touring company based in Tennessee, and they have apparently produced a play called The Happy Man...
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