Moooooooooon River.

The board shorts are made out of solid pieces of wood.

No jokes, please: we're skittish.

Board shorts are not pants. Whatever did you think I meant?

Women.

That city sounded familiar. And then I remembered the article in City Journal by Steve Malanga. From 2004:

If Richmond’s city leaders have their priorities askew, they are not alone in the creative age. Concerned with inessentials, cities under Florida’s thrall can easily overlook what residents really want. Consider Winnipeg’s mayor Glen Murray, one of Canada’s chief Florida fans, who even brought the professor north to tout his ideas to Canadian political leaders. While Murray invests in cultural amenities and derides people who only want cities to focus on “pipes, pavement and policing,” the most distinguishing characteristic of Murray’s mayoralty has been this: for several consecutive years, Winnipeg has been the murder capital of Canada.

Welcome to the creative age.

I also believe that WhisperSync makes a sound -- contra Rob Long -- but its a very faint sound.

They can read our thoughts as well, so every morning I try and put Javex in their brains.

Some of my best comments on Ricochet are when I'm not wearing pants. I blame Misthiocracy.

Clarence Thomas is the superior natural law thinker and has a consistent conceptual framework that undergirds his opinions. Justice Scalia -- sadly, because I enjoy his rhetorical gifts -- does not. 

Advantage: Clarence Thomas over Antonin Scalia by knockout in Round 1 of the Octagon border fence cage match.

How has your participation on Ricochet changed your work off Ricochet?

Work off Ricochet? Oh no. That may explain my dwindling bank account.

He's recently announced that he lost his Parish and is moving to Hell's Kitchen. 

Interesting. Seemingly, he is moving to Hell's Kitchen while Cuomo is allowed to come to Heaven's banquet every Sunday and to sup. If only we knew a Cardinal who could speak plainly about such things.

"Well, in my heart and my mind, you know, life begins when the mother thinks it begins, not when anybody else thinks it begins. For some women, it's before they conceive; for some women, it's never. Even after they deliver, it's still a problem, not a baby." 

Leroy Carhart

I would love to be a part of renewal of the college and its culture.

Read Newman's writings on the Benedictines and The Idea of a University.

Watch St Benedict's Teaching for Dark Ages, his and ours

Read Dr William Fahey's The Foundations of Western Monasticism which will cover Anthony, Benedict and Bernard (Desert, Benedictines, Cistercians)

John Senior The Death and Restoration of Catholic Culture

James S Taylor Poetic Knowledge

More John Senior

Dennis Quinn Iris Exiled: A Synoptic History of Wonder

James V. Schall S.J. The Final Gladness

William Wisner Whither the Post Modern Library?

Christopher Dawson The Crisis of Western Education

Dawson had reservations about educational initiatives that had been developed in response to this crisis of education. Among them, he expressed doubts about newly emerging great books programs fearing that they would reduce the great tradition of a living culture to a set of central texts or great ideas. In contrast, he insisted that a Christian education had to be concerned with "how spiritual forces are transmitted and how they change culture, often in unexpected ways." 

I'm not sure that having people be guided by their heart is a good thing.

If there's one thing that's in surplus in the Western hemisphere its moral subjectivism.

WASHINGTON, JUNE 3, 2013—Facing international pressure about the unethical harvesting of organs from convicted prisoners, China’s top health care official apparently can’t make up his mind about the status of the brutal and inhumane practice. In a May 17 news conference called to trumpet an end of the policy, Dr. Huang Jiefu announced that organ harvesting from executed criminals would be “phased out” within two years—and then defended the practice three days later in an interview with the Australian ABC News agency, leaving it uncertain if China will phase out the practice.

Under pressure from the international community, China has recently vowed to “phase out” its practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. At a May 17 press conference in Beijing, Dr. Huang Jiefu, former vice minister of health, described China’s current organ procurement practice as “profit-driven, unethical, and violating human rights.” Medical doctors, lawyers, human rights watchdogs, and parliamentarians worldwide have demanded an immediate end to forced organ harvesting in China.

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting

How influential and or corrosive this purported "lobby" is, I suppose we'll all find out.

Of the approximately 625 St. John's graduates to be ordained by the Los Angeles Archdiocese between 1950 and 2005, 65 had been accused by 2005 of molesting the underaged, reflecting a rate higher than what studies have found for U.S. priests in general...10] Four days after the Los Angeles Times reported this information, the paper ran a letter to the editor from St. John's rector Helmut A. Hefner. He stated that reforms had been implemented in the seminary, and that from 1985 to 2005, of the 155 priests ordained at St. John's Seminary for the archdiocese, 2 had been accused of sexual misconduct.[11]

Further, the lede to a 2002 Newsweek article entitled "Gays in the Seminary" opened by interviewing a recent alumnus: St. John's "may be one of the country's gayest facilities for higher education. Depending on whom you ask, gay and bisexual men make up anywhere from 30 percent to 70 percent of the student body at the college and graduate levels."[12]

Chesterton said there were two ways to get home and one of them was to stay there.