Category: Roman Catholicism

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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Eureka! Why Voodoo (and some other things) creep me out

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on PBS Friday night had a non-judgmental story on a Voodoo priestess in New Orleans. Voodoo makes me queasy, and when that happens (which isn’t often) I want to know why. Do I deep down believe in Voodoo’s efficacy or something?

When I sat down to note my queasiness with voodoo in writing, I ended up with not only my answer, but an “Aha!” moment that helped me crack another nut I’d been working on.

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