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Posted on August 19, 2008
Any lurkers readers out there who want to know where I've set up shop "anonymously" (although it won't be to you, will it?), e-mail me. I'm not sure when this blog is going "off air," but it won't be too...

Postscript

Posted on August 11, 2008
Who do I know at Westmoreland Hall? How about Devon Energy? In all "candor," I'm merely curious.

This Train Don't Stop There Anymore

Posted on July 14, 2008
Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created my Man. ---Kevin Funnell, as told...

I Dreamed I Saw Saw St. Augustine

Posted on July 10, 2008
I've been out in the hedgerows, mixing it up with the forces of Sauron in the battle for the soul of corporate America, and when I return I find in my Google Reader a mix of posts concerning matters only...

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I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

Posted on July 10, 2008
I've been out in the hedgerows, mixing it up with the forces of Sauron in the battle for the soul of corporate America, and when I return I find in my Google Reader a mix of posts concerning matters only...

Blessed Are The Grammarians

Posted on July 07, 2008
A brief passage from Pope Benedict XVI, again from is book God and the World. This one ought to warm the heart of my friend Kyle Kupp, a diagrammer of sentences from way back. In discussing the contributions that the...

KISS Me

Posted on July 06, 2008
From the book God and the World, a conversation between writer Peter Sewald and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: (Sewald): It's obvious that Jesus takes particular delight in children and in people with a simple faith. He is ----something we rarely see...

Who Doesn't Long For?

Posted on June 29, 2008
Longing Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from...

Rue, Not Rage

Posted on June 29, 2008
Rue For what I did And did not do And do without In my old age Rue, not rage Against that night We go into, Sets me straight On what to do Before I die? Sit in the shade, Look...

McCain's Voguing It Big Time

Posted on June 25, 2008
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

A Need For Agape

Posted on June 24, 2008
Shira bat Sarah is a survivor of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. As she relates in this post, she recalls warmly the caring brought to her region by the Red Cross and the Salvation...

Let's Goose This "Goose"

Posted on June 22, 2008
Some jerk is stealing my thunder...and making money to boot! A robber who bears a resemblance to Anthony Edwards' "Goose" character from the movie Top Gun robbed his third bank in a month on Saturday, Fort Worth police said. At...

The Human Stain

Posted on June 20, 2008
When most Americans discuss the subject of illegal immigration, they tend to do so with cold, hard, dispassionate logic. I dare say that the issue is one that barely registers on the public emotional seismograph. As far as I'm concerned,...

My Stupid Mouth

Posted on June 17, 2008
Inklings Inklings san ink Cling to the dry Point of the pen Whose stem I mouth Not knowing when The truth will out Samuel Menashe Back To You, John Mayer

Is The Gay Marriage Battle Lost?

Posted on June 08, 2008
"Yes" says Crunchy Con columnist Rod Dreher. He sets out his line of reasoning in a recent editorial in The Dallas Morning News. It's not long, so read it for yourself. I don't disagree with his conclusion that, ultimately, social...

The Sweet Voice Of Reason

Posted on June 04, 2008
Now that Obama has wrapped up the nomination and gotten a fist bump from his wife to boot, let's review a little incident that occurred over the past few weeks and has already been blogged about by others. I'm always...

The Right To Choose

Posted on June 01, 2008
The Catholic Archbishop for Northeastern Kansas, Joseph Naumann (who I've discussed previously), caused an uproar in certain segments of the secular press, in corners of the Catholic left, and in Catholic haters of all religious and political stripes, when he...

Semper Momento

Posted on May 26, 2008
For many families, Memorial Day is not a once-a-year holiday, it's a daily dagger through the heart. In Sag Harbor, New York: They lined Sag Harbor's Main Street by the hundreds, some with their hands over their hearts, others clutching...

Foolish Words Of Wisdom

Posted on May 24, 2008
As some experts have noted, "[i]n the courts of England, a fool was a comic figure with a quick tongue who entertained the king, the queen, and their guests. He was allowed to?and even expected to?criticize anyone at court." Dennis...

A Relatively Innocent Activity

Posted on May 23, 2008
Father Richard John Neuhaus begins "The Public Square" section of this month's print issue of First Things with some reflections on the limitations of the Internet and, more specifically, blogs. The beginnings of this reflection appeared on the FIRST THINGS...

A Man's Man

Posted on May 21, 2008
It doesn't matter whether Hill or Hussein is "manning" the Democratic conning tower come November. When it comes to making a choice, there's only one man running for President of this land I like to call "The United States of...

So Many Lives Untried

Posted on May 18, 2008
Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you're lagging, I...

A Civil Debate Over Uncivil Matters

Posted on May 12, 2008
Last October, a number of now-former readers of this blog became enraged because I agreed with Postmodern Papist's call to "hospitably engage" pro-choice advocates in debates over the basis of their belief that killing fetuses and embryos is justified...

Barricades of Heaven

Posted on May 05, 2008
While wondering why, according to my site meter, one of the Internet's most popular bloggers would come to this small corner of the blogosphere, read one of my posts, click on a link in the post to the subject of...

For Cheerleaders

Posted on May 04, 2008
Welcome to 21st century Texas, ya'll, where some girls make federal cases out of the most important question of their oh-so-vacuous lives: "to be, or not to be, a cheerleader." Other girls are otherwise occupied.

Affirmative Othodoxy

Posted on May 01, 2008
Archbishop Chaput (rhymes with "a-choo," by the way) of Denver reminds me of G.K. Chesterton, in the sense that if you start to put post-its by passages of his speeches or essays that are particularly meaningful, you look back and...

Doin' The Right Thing

Posted on April 30, 2008
Talk is cheap. What would you do?

Where Do We Get Such Men?

Posted on April 26, 2008
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. ---Elizabeth Barrett Browning In the short interval between first seeing this story about how Iraqi soldiers turned tail...

No Cincinnatus In Sight

Posted on April 24, 2008
A few months ago, in the heat of the contest for the Republican nomination, one of the bloggers who I love (not too mild a word for the feeling I have for her writing and for the depth of her...

"Pop" Goes The Ave

Posted on April 19, 2008
Not bad for a Baptist. I think that Kelly's former choir teacher was right.

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