Well, really I’m not. I’m back home now, and the children have just gone to bed, most of them, after some moments of franticness over a white shirt a certain personage of this household has to wear to march with the Holy Crusaders in the Eucharistic procession tomorrow morning. Yes, yes, . . . . Continue Reading »
Listen to Mary Eberstadt talk about her excellent piece in the October issue: ” What Does Woman Want? ” Also, Alan Jacobs discusses why Wind in the Willows is still so good. More audio interviews can be found in the FT media archives . . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve been making great use of this striking coloring book, from the Hillside Education imprint. This isn’t so much a coloring book in the usual sense as simply a book of reproducible coloring pages, which feature intricate stained-glass-effect images of saints for every month of the . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday afternoons no one wants to read another blog post about heath care reform or Iranian nuclear programs or how the nadir of Western Civilization is to be reached this afternoon at 3:32 P.M . Those things can wait till Monday. Friday afternoons are a good time (well, as good a time as . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Today reviews David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies : Much of Atheist Delusions reminds readers of the importance of remembering what Christianity has done for us—not just for the believer in personal salvation, but . . . . Continue Reading »
Loans and Credit calculates the U.S. government’s credit score based on FICO criteria . (Via: Challies.com ) . . . . Continue Reading »
Most of the focus in the Obamacare debate has been on HB 3200. But Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) has been trying to forge a compromise package. Instead, he has upset both sides, the Left because it has no public option and the Right because it too contains provisions that would, in the name of cost . . . . Continue Reading »
Sacred Heart University’s third annual “Trust and Satisfaction with the National News Media Survey” finds that the news source that people trust most is Fox News. The least trusted news source? Also, Fox News. It may not be fair but the results—30.0% trust, 26.2% . . . . Continue Reading »
If you need another reason to appreciate America, consider that our criminals are, as a general rule, rather dull and dumb. That seems preferable to Sweden where the supercriminals are wickedly smart and exhibit an excess of panache . STOCKHOLM — With cinematic flourish, the masked robbers . . . . Continue Reading »
For the past few years my friend David Wayne (aka, Jollyblogger ) has been a winsome model of the pastor-blogger. I’ve learned a lot from him and assumed I’d be reading his work for decades. But then last Christmas he discovered—at the age of forty-five—that he has stage four . . . . Continue Reading »
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