Month: July 2011

Tasty Tidbits 7/15/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:

  1. Chaconne Klaverenga leaves the nest.
  2. Boy! Am I glad I proofread that one!
  3. National debt as a moral issue.
  4. History should be honest, so let’s gin up some stories about an oppressed minority.
  5. A little Harry Potter history.
  6. Consider the case of poor Caleb Warner.
  7. Obama lied.
  8. Maybe the phrase “one flesh” is way truer than the hookup culture imagines.
  9. Monkey copyrights?
  10. A testy tidbit among the tasties.
  11. Another lyrical interlude with Brother Bruce.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/13/11

  1. Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
  2. “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
  3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
  4. Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
  5. Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
  6. I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
  7. Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
  8. Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
  9. “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/11/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:

  1. Sexing up girls
  2. Trickle-Down 2.0
  3. Crazy like foxes.
  4. Lighting one candle on energy.
  5. All (or at least many) things Michelle.
  6. Modern obesity.
  7. Hangin’ out with some really thuggish sorts.
  8. St. Gregory Palamas University?
  9. Soft on poltergeists.

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Bigger than tidbits. 7/9/11

Tipsy’s Tasty Tidbits filled to overflowing today, so I took a few, including some slightly more extended reflections, over to here. There’s just four categories: Law, Internet, Journalism and Sex.

  1. A brief and pointed quiz.
  2. Was AmConMag’s blog hacked?
  3. Reflections on slogans and delusions.
  4. Reflections on Artificial and Natural “Family Planning.”

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Tasty Tidbits 7/9/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits. It got really long so I took some bigger-than-tidbit items away and will post separately, perhaps:

  1. From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin…
  2. The Unknowable God and the knowable Bugs Bunny.
  3. Pugnacious Pat misses one, but comes close.
  4. ‘Mendoucheous.”
  5. June job numbers and the optimist in hell.
  6. “Pomodoro”?!
  7. Priceless!
  8. We will raise, or smash, the debt ceiling.
  9. Masson graphically provides perspective.
  10. Does anybody actually work any more?
  11. “True Religion” lies like hell.
  12. Evernote.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/8/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:

  1. The epitome of greatness turns 83.
  2. Obama’s perverse attack on DOMA.
  3. There oughtn’t be a law.
  4. Who can sing?
  5. What’s wrong with this table?
  6. Which head of Hydra do we attack first?
  7. Making politics personal in the digital age.
  8. Who killed Communism?
  9. 7×8=62

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Tasty Tidbits 7/7/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing. Orthodoxen in particular might want to read item 6, which  links to a post at the Orthodoxy at Purdue blog (which also appears on the St. Alexis website’s homepage):

  1. I’m ballast (but please don’t throw me over if it gets stormy).
  2. “… it’s probably you.”
  3. Cecilia Bartoli.
  4. Debut of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought.
  5. The Strong One(s).
  6. Three excellent AFR Podcasts.
  7. A perceptive Orthodox podcast on economics.
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