Sunday, January 24, 2010

The Jesus Rifle

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Oh No! It is the end of the world . The war is lost! (be sure to watch Rachel Maddow's video at the end of the post) But for $660,000,0...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The quotable Mr. Chesterton

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While trolling my local Catholic bookstore, I spotted several copies of a new - 2009 -book - The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quo...
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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Ratcheting it up a notch

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As long as I can remember I have never heard the Bishops tell their flock to explicitly vote one way or the other or support one bill or the...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

more sci-fi on the way but not so much fi

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In H.G. Well's novel The Island of Dr. Moreau He tells the tale of a man making human/animal hybrids. Makes for a good story. "Dr. ...
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Bukowski clerihew

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Charles Bukowski finished his whiskey. While waiting for another he wrote about eyeing his friend's mother.
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Friday, January 15, 2010

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When I first heard about AVATAR I was not in hurry to see it but after reading all the buzz about it on the blogosphere, especially by Catho...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Speaking of Genomes part 2

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In the, for lack of a better word, battle between science and religion some voices of reconciliation are being heard. Not because of their ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Speaking of Genomes part 1

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In 2004 Svante Paabo, a paleogeneticist at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, announced he was going to reconstruct the Neanderthal genome...
Friday, January 01, 2010

Lear Clerihew

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Thanks to Edward Lear I no longer fear any beard-nesting fowl (except, perhaps, an owl).
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Saturday, December 26, 2009

Bethlehem - (Charles Williams)

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Bethlehem A Poem A star of travel shines above, The small town sleeps below, How shall I find the Mother of Love, As through the world I go...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

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A Christmas Carol poem by G.K.Chesterton The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, ...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

We can all stand around the pole.

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For us Christians a unity tree ? Next will be the family candelabra for the Jews. But, thankfully, they have left Festivus alone. This will ...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

The Copenhagen Synod Part 2

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Well the synod has concluded and to continue their religion mapping they even created a secret society that may or may not have the power to...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Copenhagen Synod

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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless, minority; keen to set brush fires in people's minds......
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

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"But the great towns have grown intolerable solely because of such suffocating vulgarities and tyrannies. It is not humanity that disgu...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

An Advent Story

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As my daughter and I were making paper cutout snow flakes she said to me, "Ya know Christmas is Jesus' birthday". She said thi...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

When You Sing You Pray Twice

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"The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule." GKC Eugenics an...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

The League of Bearded Catholics

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Being a bearded fellow, I naturally have a certain affection for anyone who promotes facial hair. But when they drag in Tolkien, Lewis, Bell...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving Proclamation [New York, 3 October 1789] By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the dut...
Monday, November 23, 2009

St. Francis would have liked GKC

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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. - St. Francis of Assisi