Monday, April 30, 2012

Items of Interest, 30 April 2012

PJB, Is Europe Sailing on the Titanic
Thomas Fleming, Obama's War on Business (Walmart and Mexico)
Paul Gottfried, Tea Party vs. Occupy: Which is Winning?

Bin Laden: Forgotten But Not Gone

Forrest McDonald, George Washington: Today's Indispensable Man

Justin Raimondo, China's Reformist Crooks

Another review of The Way of Men.

Self-Made Men, Debunked

Attack of the Drones

The Last Man Standing by W. James Antle, III
Ron Paul's under-the-radar delegate pickups are the last obstacle on Romney's road to the nomination.
Economics:
Questioning Growth Assumptions (EB)
Can we expect the economy to keep growing? by Gail Tverberg (EB)
David S. D'Amato, Musings on May Day

The Extraenvironmentalist, Ep. 40: The Corporate Influence (low/high)

Distributism:
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism
Practical Distributism: Innovation

Relocalization:
John Médaille, Be Not Afraid, Even of Zombies
Expanding Urban Agriculture in San Francisco
Techcrunch interview with John Robb (via his blog)
AoM: 9 Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches

Permaculture:
Best Permaculture Homesteading Books
Free permaculture eBook: The Farmers' Handbook Volume Two - Near the House I (the original)
Why Every Permaculturalist Should Own a Scythe

Peak Oil and Energy:
Post Carbon Newsletter - The REAL oil story

Catholic:
NLM: Great New Pictures from Our Lady of Walsingham
Can Beauty Save the World? | Dr. Eric Cunningham
Sandro Magister: Vatican Diary / The Holy Office puts the American sisters in the corner and After Seven Years, the Secret of Pope Ratzinger

Fr. James Schall, SJ: The Pope on tourism and on man as traveler
Zenit: Cardinal Vegliò's Opening Address at Tourism Conference [2012-04-24]
"We are convinced that tourism humanizes"
Papal Message to Tourism Conference [2012-04-23]
"Traveling, which offers us the possibility of admiring the beauty of peoples, cultures and nature, can lead to God"
Too much accomodation to the affluent and their frivolous activities by the Bishop of Rome? When will the Church confront the limitations of a system made possible by cheap energy? What happened to encouraging the faithful to humble simplicity?


Freedom Complex
On the Road to Emmaus: The Catholic Dialogue with America and Modernity by Glenn W. Olsen.

The FSSP's Roman Pastor on Tradition in the Modern Church


Written by Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. - Francis of Assisi: A New Biography

Bioethics:
Why Human Fetuses Are "Human": Some Thoughts

Feminism:
Robert McCain, The Million Ugly Women March
Dr. Helen comments on Kay Hymnowitz - No, Women Are Not the Second Sex Because They Choose to Work Less

Diet and Health:
MDA: Primal Resource Guide - on barefooting and VFFs
Jimmy Moore, Aren’t You Going To Respond To The Negative Attacks Against You?
9th MovNat Principle: Adaptive

Music:
Limerock by Mark O'Connor and Yo-Yo Ma

Apparently it is also a traditional Sottish and Irish tune. The SF Scottish Fiddlers played it on Sat. at the Freight.

First Listen, Sara Watkins, 'Sun Midnight Sun' (her website/MS)
NC Times article

The Vespers, "Better Now"


Movies:
AICN: Mr. Beaks And Whit Stillman Discuss The Delightful DAMSELS IN DISTRESS!

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