Tasty Tidbits 8/23/11

  1. Tipsier than usual.
  2. A New Title IX Regulation, maybe?
  3. C. Schmoo Lewis.
  4. Exorcising Monsaton.
  5. Romance or marriage?
  6. Poke in eye. (If that doesn’t work, knee in groin?)
  7. Free the Data!
  8. An ocean divides us, but …
  9. Crop failure.
  10. At the corner of time and eternity.

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Tasty Tidbits 8/13/11 – Curmudgeon Special

  1. Anathema (Corporatism I)
  2. Can you top this I?
  3. A golden anniversary
  4. Catholicism/Americanism mish-mash.
  5. Rick Perry’s Crony Capitalism Problem.
  6. Can you top this II?
  7. Food police (Corporatism II).
  8. Corporatism III
  9. A Feast of the Mother of God.

(I seem to detect an antiwar, anticorporate selection bias here. Imagine that!)

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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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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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Orthodox Economics (with a shame-faced eucharistic postscript)

I’m unlikely for years, if ever, to compose a better introductionto Distributism for Orthodox Christians (or others) than this article from the Orthodox Peace Fellowship . All the following quotes, accordingly, are from it unless otherwise noted.

“Capitalism immediately appeals to Americans, who value freedom above just about everything,” the article acknowledges But don’t expect me to bite my tongue about what I see of  Emperor Capital’s new clothes. Continue reading “Orthodox Economics (with a shame-faced eucharistic postscript)”

American Civil Religion Redux

James Allen, a radio talk-show host and second- or third-tier columnist at Townhall.com, praises Glenn Beck as a “great leader” who has a “belief in a transcendent being called God.” I dissent and accuse Allen of suborning violations of the 1st Commandment. Continue reading “American Civil Religion Redux”