February 2012
2 posts
“OH: Can you believe that somebody is willing to pay you for what is inside your...”
– @summertomato
“If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.”
– Baltasar Gracian
January 2012
7 posts
What to Write Down During a Class Lecture →
Something for the students or auditors among us.
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions....”
– (via conciselearning)
Over to Florida
What the Sunshine State Will Illuminate - National Review Online: “Five key factors in what happened this weekend in the South Carolina primary, and five key factors in what will occur eight days from now in the Florida primary”
Good stuff, and all worth keeping in mind.
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
– Francis Bacon
“The pen is mightier than the sword but I always keep a sword handy in case my...”
– @IamEnidColeslaw
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”
– Maimonides
The Other Reason Europe Is Going Broke -... →
How can Brussels excite a generation of ambitious young people — the ones who will determine Europe’s future success — when too many of them are offered low-wage, short-term work in stagnant industries to pay for the far more generous benefits their elders receive? How can Europe compete if its youth experience the flexibility while the old get the security?
Why I’d rather be here than...
December 2011
3 posts
Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's rhetorical shifts →
What else can a man without an identity do, a president who never really was?
/headshake That’ll leave a mark.
Owning your own civilization →
(via Instapaper)
November 2011
9 posts
Medved on electability →
Finally, a sane discussion of electability and the GOP primaries.
(via Instapaper)
Obama's Choice →
The terrible dilemma of the Obama-supporting Catholic blogger, about to be thrown under the bus… Does nobody read Aesop’s fable of the frog and the scorpion?
Sixties Language Made Mass Boring →
Fr. Barron hits the spot on how to see the new Mass translation.
(via Instapaper)
The Biggest What-If Hovering Over Obama →
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” (Whittier)
(via Instapaper)
The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers →
For everyone heading into finals and the end of the semester!
(via Instapaper)
Four Enduring Truths of American Elections →
Good things to keep in mind between now and Election Day.
(via Instapaper)
“Denialism, the comforting belief that all one’s foes are easily dismissed by...”
– Stephen Hawking’s Simplistic Worldview
2 tags
a minor friar: Advice to Theology Students →
Equally good for undergraduate majors, graduate students, and those simply interested in theology.
October 2011
4 posts
“They say, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play...”
– Stephen Colbert
The Milquetoast Radicals →
David Brooks is so on-point about the fundamental frivolity and illusion of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“Nothing is easier than to use the word, [God,] and mean nothing by it.”
– John Henry Newman in Idea of a University I.7
Reporters, Baptists, Romney & ‘cults’ →
Just can’t recommend GetReligion enough for anyone who wants to make sense of the ways that theological points appear in the news.
(via Instapaper)
September 2011
5 posts
“It would be easily understandable if someone became so annoyed at all these...”
– Socrates in Phaedo 90cd
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are...”
– Carl Sagan
He’s No Truman . . . →
Analysis by the numbers from Jay Cost, 2012 strategy
La Commedia è finita! →
The tragicomedic White House.
“People should not think so much about what they ought to do, they should think...”
– Meister Eckhart
August 2011
4 posts
“Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your...”
– Plato, Parmenides 135d
Big Picture at World Youth Day: 'It’s the... →
John Allen’s take on WYD just past.
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
– Buckaroo Banzai
“I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data....”
– Sherlock Holmes
July 2011
3 posts
The Coming Cloud Wars →
If Silicon Valley were hosting a basketball tournament for consumer money and mindshare in the cloud, right now we’d be looking at a Final Four of Google, Apple (plus Twitter), Microsoft (plus Facebook) and Amazon (especially if they can make a compelling tablet).
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - The Atlantic →
The unfortunate roots and bad results of the helicopter parenting I see so much of at school.
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it...”
– John Wooden
June 2011
1 post
Israelites in the Anglo-Saxon Sea →
Fascinating take on Anglo-Saxon religious poetry, referring to this new volume of translations.
May 2011
1 post
“Orwell’s famous Academic English translation of the gorgeous “I saw under the...”
– David Foster Wallace
April 2011
1 post
“Omnia disce; postea videbis nihil esse superfluum. (Learn everything; afterward...”
– Hugh of St. Victor
March 2011
5 posts
“The twentieth century was one in which limits on state power were removed in...”
– Neal Stephenson - In the Beginning Was the Command Line
How Obama Crushed The Dreams of A Generation →
“President Obama: He was the rock star who would put the Left in its rightful, exalted place.” - 2008
And then, from Andrew Sullivan, “But the president we supported is not, it is now clear, the president that we have.” - 2011
Ahhh, Hope™ and Change™. The link is worth checking out, as a good summary of the transition from 2008 to the present.
(via Ed Driscoll)
It’s not about the iPad →
“The next time you watch a child use an iPad, think about what your knowledge-based toys looked like when you were their age. The iPad is their slide rule; their typewriter; their Commodore 64. As great as the iPad is, it’s more mind blowing to imagine what will soon deprecate it.”
Japan's nuclear crisis and the 2011 earthquake... →
Fr. Barron on the Pope's new book →
Fine description of the dynamic between historical-critical and theological interpretation.
(Via Ignatius Insight.)
February 2011
3 posts
OH: Joys of teaching
Student: So did I miss anything last class?
Teacher: Nope, I awkwardly stared at the class for 50 minutes. But you should stop in next Wednesday, I'm thinking of covering some stuff then.
The Theological Necessity of an Historical... →
Truer words never spoken: “The moment the “Word became flesh” (Jn. 1:14), history became essential to the task of thinking about and proclaiming the good news of the Bible, and it became essential for very theological reasons.”
“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and...”
– John Ruskin
January 2011
2 posts
Eight reasons to drink coffee →
Is there nothing this wonder beverage cannot do?
“Every truth spoken by anyone is from the Holy Spirit.”
– Thomas Aquinas