Category: Economia

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 7/9/11

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 7/7/11

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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Tasty Tidbits 7/5/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:

  1. Conservative conservatism calls out liberal conservatism.
  2. Crony capitalism and the complicit commentariat.
  3. James Howard Kunstler’s birthday card to America.
  4. Are we really free?
  5. John’s Curmudgeonly thoughts on our history.
  6. Who’s really totalitarian?
  7. Are we “defining” or “banning”?
  8. What does barbecue tell us about race?

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Tipsy Teetotaler’s Tasty Tidbits 7/2/11

Here’s today’s tasty tidbits:

  1. Islam as Protestant or Jewish.
  2. SSM was just a decoy for the real radical agenda.
  3. Euphemism alert.
  4. CAFOs for homo sapiens.
  5. Local boy makes good, Purdue girl makes history.
  6. Indiana Supreme Court (ouch!) in the news again.
  7. Who owns the 21st Century?
  8. I have no need of that hypothesis.
  9. What’s Hell like, dear skull?

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Tasty Tidbits 6/28/11

Here’s today’s tasty tidbits, concurrently Tweeted and Facebooked:

Sen. Lugar reportedly will unload on Obama today regarding Libya. Good for him! But the Hoosier blogosphere will be all atwitter with navel-gazing about how this is a “move to the right” to fight off challenger Richard Mourdock.

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Prophets, dissident intellectuals, and a world free of merde

My blog title is based on a quote from G.K. Chesterton, one of my favorite essayists. Reading Chesterton, and noting how “prophetic” he is,  reminds me of Noam Chomsky’s claim that the Old Testament prophets were that day’s version of “dissident intellectuals.” Continue reading “Prophets, dissident intellectuals, and a world free of merde” →