October 2010
2 posts
July 2010
2 posts
WatchI am starting to really love this guy. I’m thinking Jindal/Christie in 2012 or Christie/Jindal in 2012. It is time that the Right gets to be known as the Politics of Clarity. It can take the Sopranos-esque beautiful Jerseyness of Christie or a more refined intellectual form, but as my friend T. Garten Dougherty always tells me, “Clarity is Charity.”
February 2010
1 post
WatchObservations: Running barefoot is better, researchers find
Chalk up one more win for the cavemen vs. the moderns.
October 2009
2 posts
August 2009
2 posts
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...”
– http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
2 posts
“What’s money? Man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to...”
April 2009
2 posts
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » The... →
February 2009
2 posts
Good article on what your brain is doing when you... →
Found this article through the newly Twittering David Allen. It’s pretty interesting stuff and, as best I can understand it, it would seem that the ever maligned “monkey mind” may play a huge role in your personal development. Check it out. Also, on the topic of neuroscience and it’s interface with things philosophical, theological, or personal, I’d recommend the...
January 2009
1 post
Fr. Neuhaus before the throne of God
Saw the following over on the Catholic Professionals group on LinkedIn, thought it was amazing and great example of how right on Fr. Neuhaus is most of the time. m -A
“When I come before the judgment throne, I will plead the promise of God in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I will not plead any work I have done, although I will thank God that he has enabled me to do some good. I will plead no...
October 2008
5 posts
“From book twelve of Homer’s Odyssey:
Enough: in misery can words avail?
And...”
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons,... →
More crazy flat earth talk….from NASA.
First Things » Blog Archive » The Arena →
Chesterton wrote this poem about the Notre Dame football team. Amazing!!
First Things » Blog Archive » Dawkins Attacks... →
Grab the pitchforks of reason! Humpty Dumpty and the 3 Little Pigs are next. “No Virginia, there is no such thing as the Big Bad Wolf.”
WorldWatch - October 5, 2008 - Would the Last... →
This article does the job of pimpslapping the entire American media and giving a 10,000 ft. primer on the causes of the big bailout in one fell swoop. Brilliant! And- he’s a card carrying Democrat, so no partisan finger pointing. Enjoy! (oh, and by the way- I’m back.)
June 2008
1 post
A Thomist sounding very Platonic. →
May 2008
9 posts
The New Criterion →
Wow, seems like providence has handed me something of a cornocopia of great writing on education today. I’ve only skimmed these, but check out the The New Criterion online. More great thoughts about Newman’s “Idea of a University” by Roger Kimball and a great article by the always insightful and prophetic Victor Davis Hanson. I need to get a subscription for the shop!
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive »... →
This a great reflection on the personal nature of the true mission of Catholic education, using B16’s address to Catholic educators as a launchpoint and Newman as the inspiration. Good stuff.
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » The... →
When I was studying in Denver, I used to run into Archbishop Chaput on occasion. No- really, actually run into him- books flying, etc. I almost made him drop a pie once. The archbishop is, what my high school Alegebra teacher and basketball coach would have called, a “go-getter.” He is always moving quick and with intent, sometimes on the inside blind corner of the first floor of the...
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive »... →
Great piece on the big picture of worldviews, how that plays out in the modern academy, and the effect of these on a person of faith and reason. Damn, I love First Things!
GTD Dictionary - Practical advice on personal... →
Nice, concise bird’s eye view of the core concepts of the GTD methodology. I love this kind of stuff.
Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search... →
Bunch of great Google hacks and tricks for geeks and mortals alike over in this link, many of which I have found on accident. The comments are as good or better than the blog.
ZENIT - What Is a Catholic University? →
Here is a great little homily from Cardinal Arinze about the nature of a Catholic University, delivered at Christendom College. I had the pleasure of taking a class from a former CC professor, Dr. Jonathan Reyes, during my brief and somewhat tragic stint in Colorado, at the Augustine Institute in Denver, which he founded. Though my own alma mater supposedly has a rivalry with CC, though it never...
X-Catholics: Mailbag: When Tossed at Sea →
“…pray the Jesus Prayer, until it prays you.” Basic good spiritual advice from a man that could write a book in response to the same question, and in symbolic logic for that matter. For those not familiar with the Jesus Prayer, try reading The Way of the Pilgrim.
Read This Now! Stop Procrastinating and Get Stuff... →
I am the king of procrastination, so that makes me something of an expert here, and this is a really good nuts and bolts article on how to hack procrastination. Read now slacker!!!!!
April 2008
10 posts
Printable Paper →
This could be a nice little source for some useful pdfs, especially for those paper-based GTD types out there.
Aristotle Hugged, but not Ayn Rand →
What Church did Aristotle belong to? I happened along this article on the official blog of The Objective Standard about the new Ben Stein documentary “Expelled.” Now, I have yet to see Mr. Stein’s film and I do have a problem with anyone attempting to check their mind at the door and posit religious beliefs, based on revelation alone, as science, in the modern sense of the word....
Developing Intelligence : Caffeine: A User's Guide... →
Dance with the goddess Caffeine, but learn the steps first. Here’s a quick little primer- good article.
If California had been a woman this morning, I...
I just love California when it looks like it did this morning. Woke up around 6:30 and drove into the shop around 8:00. Coming down the 150 into Santa Paula was stunning, and ordinary, and stunning that something so stunning could be ordinary. The pale mist was hanging on the peaks like opium smoke and the greens were so deep you could taste them. It reminded me of good old G.K. Chesterton talking...
Solve problems by writing a note to yourself | 43... →
Here’s a little something I found over on 43 Folders. This is an interesting hack to apply the psychological state, imposed by an ubiquitous modern communication tool, to the task of problem solving. I find often that gettting some distance via objectivization of an issue or problem is the very thing needed to solve it. When we impose a serious and purposeful ontological demarcation between...
