Monthly Archives: June 2011

Westward Ho!

Tomorrow, with the help of friends, we’ll pack the truck (26′ Penske). Friday we head out for Salt Lake City, or “Wabash” in our family slang, joining the tribe of pioneers, who share a particular esprit de corps, regardless of … Continue reading

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Cadence Belle Skibitsky

Megan and Jeff Skibitsky’s daughter, Cadence Belle Skibitsky, was born 10:25am (PDT), May 15th, 2008 [but this posting gets updated with pictures occasionally] and weighed 6lb 10oz. Cadence Belle: the beauty of measured movement Summer is done More pictures at … Continue reading

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Ian Ker’s Chesterton

Ian Ker’s biography of Chesterton is reviewed in the London Times. The reviewer, Bernard Manzo, remarks that: Dogmas, for Chesterton, create thought; they create the possibility of argument, and perception (“with this idea once inside our heads, a million things … Continue reading

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Restoration

In an article about the restoration of a Catholic church building in London https://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100092380/i-have-seen-the-future-of-the-english-catholic-church-and-its-in-soho/ there’s this quote from George Weigel: Thus the New Evangelization requires radically converted disciples, and it requires bold leaders who call the timid to the fullness of … Continue reading

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Red Pandas - blog mascots

They are skilful climbers that, when not foraging on the ground, spend most of their time in the trees curled up with their long, bushy tails wrapped around their heads. More info at: https://www.pluspets.net/red-panda-unusual-cute/

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Discriminating

Finally, there may be a fourth group of readers who take a favorable view of the book as a whole and who regard it as one of its virtues to have incurred the disapproval of the other three groups. It … Continue reading

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Why Sarah Palin . . .

Tammy Bruce writes: …. Without Palin in the race a massive segment of the GOP base—Tea Party patriots and other independent conservatives—will find themselves once again with the prospect of choosing from a manipulated field of Next-In-Line GOP establishment liberals. … Continue reading

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