Thursday, January 31, 2013

This MIght Help A Few Folks...

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...since the media seem to keep confusing terms and their history, although I think it's mostly from ignorance and indolence than for an...

Some Good News On The Historical Front

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Intrepid Citizens Save Timbuktu’s Priceless Manuscripts: Once again civilization survives barbarism: Timbuktu’s ancient literary treasure...

Thursday's Verses

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Come sing, ye choirs exultant, those messengers of God, through whom the living Gospels came sounding all abroad! Whose voice proclaime...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Of Course

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Feinstein Gun Control Bill to Exempt Government Officials

Tales From The Secular World

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Shaming fat people into losing weight is the only way to solve obesity epidemic, leading health academic claims Public shaming makes a co...

This Is Worth Noting

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During the first few weeks of the 20-week study, run by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in collaboration with Tufts University...

The Intellectual Marketplace That Is The Contemporary University

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"Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, i...

Why Are These People Allowed To Have Guns?

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Bystander shot by police to sue city When our parish administrator can out-shoot the police, the NYPD may need to adjust their training.

Somehow This Will Linger For Me As A Sign Of These Times

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"Beyoncé’s dazzling rendition of the National Anthem at President Obama’s inauguration was a total fake — with the megastar lip-syncing...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Tuesday's Quotation

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“It is not what you are nor what you have been that God sees with all-merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” – from The Cloud of Unkno...
Monday, January 28, 2013

This Week's Lesser Feasts

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January 28: Thomas Aquinas [1225–1274] It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time, specifically in the 13th century, when the wor...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Good Thing Chicago Has Strict Gun Control

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7 DEAD, 6 WOUNDED IN CHICAGO WEEKEND VIOLENCE
Friday, January 25, 2013

Waldo Peirce

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"I'm a painter, not an artist". I always wanted to write a biography of Waldo Peirce, mainly because of two photographs, s...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

Thursday's Verses

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Sun and moon shall darkened be, stars shall fall, the heavens shall flee; Christ will then like lightning shine, all will see his glorio...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Newsflash: Episcopal Clergyman Says Something Liberal

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Episcopal dean of the National Cathedral teaming up with Democrats on guns Judging from the dean's "invocation" at the gu...

Begone, Peasants. Only The Wealthy May Be Protected.

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The mayor also takes along a police detail when he travels, flying two officers on his private plane and paying as much as $400 a night to p...

I Think I Have A Strategy Should I Ever Wish To Rob A Denny's

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Police Kicked Out Of Belleville Denny’s For Being Armed They made a customer "uncomfortable", you see. 

Oh, Bishops! Here's A Cause In Need Of Address

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Rampant sexism in regards to both access to power and access to wealth: The White House’s Flickr account recently released a photo of Pres...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Tuesday's Quotation

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"God has created me with free will. If I have sinned, I have sinned…. I, not fate, not chance, not the devil." —St. Augustine
Monday, January 21, 2013

This Week's Lesser Feasts

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January 21: Agnes of Rome [292-304] A popular saint about whom little is known, Agnes is said to have been a beautiful, wealthy Roman ma...