Monday, April 30, 2007

Exam in eight hours; kind of busy

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Last of my undergrad. Wish me luck - or, for novelty's sake, pray for me - if you'd be so kind. Thank you also for being understand...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Subcontinental clerihews

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My middle school students have been studying India. I was inspired to scribble the following: Mohandas K. Gandhi Was so fond of candy That w...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Chesterton on . . . England

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Blogger Matthew Archbold invokes GKC (and Churchill) to see whether England is in trouble . His conclusion: Yes. Excerpt: 2- The English gov...
Monday, April 23, 2007

May as well face facts

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I'm not going to be able to get that stuff scanned any time soon. The school's computer labs - or, at least, those with scanners - ...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Blame Game

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“I was feeling like a field the day after the circus leaves, to late for the fun and too early for the animals to reclaim it. And birds were...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Virginia Tech

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The horror of the Virginia Tech slayings is still dominating the headlines. (Or should I say, the media is milking it?) But I’ve heard so ma...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Divine Mercy

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My thoughts on the Virginia Tech shootings have yet to form into coherent language except for this: Never underestimate man’s capacity for d...

VPI and GKC

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So what would GKC say about the Virginia Tech shootings? I'm not sure he ever addressed the issue of gun control, though I found this a...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

Sickness and a promise

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I'm feeling pretty rough right now, both in body and in mood, so I can't bring myself to do proper justice to our beloved Gilbert. ...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Politics gets ugly

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"If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence." ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Baby Coup

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I’m not sure if Inspector Kemp is a Chestertonian, in the strict sense of the word, but I feel I need to paraphrase the Inspector here: “A ...
Tuesday, April 10, 2007

American Review

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In Look Homeward, America , Bill Kauffman refers to the American Review as a "Distributist journal." I Googled it and got this Wi...
Monday, April 09, 2007

The Return

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Well, I’m back. Lent… Lent worked out much better than I thought it would. At the outset I had worried that blogging would be an easy th...
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Friday, April 06, 2007

Good Friday

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“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it" GKC
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Guess who's in Gilbert?

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The latest issue of Gilbert Magazine finally arrived, and … I’m in it. Specifically, one of my clerihews. Now I know that other folks in th...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Short Blogging

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Holy Week has turned into time-strapped week. This is the best I have: On May 14, 1914 , Dorothy L. Sayers wrote her parents about hearing ...
Monday, April 02, 2007

Palm Sunday

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Hosanna. Hey sonna. Sonna sonna ho. Sonna hey, sonna, hosanna. Here comes the son of David. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord....
Saturday, March 31, 2007

Art Bell, Dean Koontz, Mr. T, and GKC

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I think that much of the genius of GKC, CS Lewis, and Tolkein consists in their ability to draw in people from many different, seemingly con...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Chesterton and the Priest of Spring

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Spring is creeping in to Western New York - with occasional interruptions of sub-freezing temperatures and snow to remind us that winter is...
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No Gilbert

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It's now been a week since some folks have gotten the latest Gilbert. No luck here. This moves me to song - Oh where, oh where has my Gi...