Sunday, August 23, 2009

If you print it they will read

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There are only two reasons a company puts a product on the cover of a catalog. The first is that it is selling very well and they want it to...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Most of all, at age 40, we should be reading...

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By [age] 40 I had outgrown ghost-written sports books and sensationalist war novels. I'd seen war for real and it wasn't very sensat...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Guess who made the list?

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Image , a journal of art and literature with a religious slant which also has an online site, has published a list of " 100 Writers of ...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

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On the current Heath Care issue Mark Steyn brilliantly writes, “….In the normal course of events, the process takes a while. But Obama belie...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

If a thing is worth doing, YOU should do it.

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Somebody slap this boy for perverted use of a Chesterton quotation: John Patrick Grace: Health care reform, even if done badly, may be bette...
Monday, August 10, 2009

"On National Debts" by Hilaire Belloc

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An appropriate cautionary tale for adults by Hilaire Belloc. It was published in On Nothing in 1908. ON NATIONAL DEBTS (WHICH ARE IMAGINAR...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Rochester Chesterton Conference

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There are many among us who can't make the Chesterton Conference due to schedule or distance. For those who can't, there will be a s...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Current Occupant

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Tom O'Toole on his blog Fighting Irish Thomas says,”… "When a nation gives birth to a foolish law," said Chesterton, "t...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Universal truth

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I have been on a history binge lately and today I came across an interesting quote. It was written two thousand and two hundred years ago by...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Life Lesson #44,758

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Chesterton frequently uses the fence or wall as a metaphor in his writings. My favorite and is this one: “Catholic doctrine and discipline m...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Speaking of Belloc

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In art a style can never be imposed nor predicted. It grows organically from any given epoch reflecting the needs, wants and desires of that...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Belloc's Windmill To Be Closed

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Hilaire Belloc's windmill, the largest working windmill in West Sussex, is closing its doors to the public. See BBC article Historic wi...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

Today in 1953: Death of Belloc

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Epigram "On His Books" published in Sonnets & Verse : When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

ZENIT: "Blessed" G.K. Chesterton?

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published today on ZENIT: Interview on Possible Beatification of English Author By Antonio Gaspari
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

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In case you missed it A.N. Wilson’s review of The Paradox Who Was Chesterton New evidence about the development of G. K. Chesterton's i...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Paul Nowak, author of the new "Uncle Chestnut" book

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Paul Nowak, author of the recently published The Inconvenient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut , sent this note: I've been meaning to let yo...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Yuk It Up Folks

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Two men considering a religious vocation were having a conversation. "What is similar about the Jesuit and Dominican Orders? " the...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

I say Hello. I say Goodbye

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Please join me in welcoming to the planet my newest grandchild, Riley Ann. Yes, the world just got a little prettier. Riley’s birth...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

June 14 - A Feast Day?

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In Catholic tradition, a saint's feast day is the day he or she died. Chesterton died June 14, 1936. If the cause for his canonization p...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

a pencil

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After spending some time teaching kids which end of the pencil makes a mark I began reading, with interest, an essay by Tom Purcell entitle...