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Monday, May 05, 2014

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Monday, May 14, 2012

Items of Interest, 14 May 2012


Doug Macgregor explains how our military reached its current state, so only desperate reform can save us
Seven predictions about our future. Most are unusual. All are certain to happen (I think)

Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream (original)


Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another

Michael Brendan Dougherty (Business Insider) and Daniel McCarthy (The American Conservative)


What are the Purposes of Foreign Policy

What Separation of Power? - nullification

American Burke by J. David Hoeveler
Irving Babbitt formulated conservatism for a world in whirl.

The Household Gods of Freedom

Christopher Lasch, Conservative?

Thomas Storck, The Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives

Jack Donovan, Mocking the Vote

Charles Hugh Smith, Acknowledging the Arrival of Peak Government

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage

The Constitution Doesn't Settle the Marriage Debate

The President’s Still Contorted Position on Same-Sex Marriage by Carson Holloway

Hilton Kramer & the critical temper by Roger Kimball

Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, American Dystopia, Fiction or Reality?

Economics and Energy:
What is Our Energy Future?

The Ten Cities Most Screwed by Peak Oil

Student Loans Weighing Down a Generation with Heavy Debt
The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food Stamps

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs?

Wendell Berry on the Importance of Local, Sustainable Economies
Worth posting again.

Urban Design:
Won’t You Be My Neighbour?
Alexandra Singer on the future of urban planning

JHK on the CNU: Still Standing Amid the Wreckage




Catholic:
Remembering St. Josemaria Escriva
2012 Holds Multiple Anniversaries for Opus Dei
Preparing for June 26th (FB)
Video of May 5 Ordinations

Charity, War, and Peace in St. Thomas Aquinas by John Hittinger (pdf)

France celebrates Joan of Arc's 600th birthday

Filas 1: The Battle of the Sexes… can it be avoided? - soundcloud
Fr. Francis Filas, S.J.

Unlikely bedfellows (Jack Donovan and the pope)

No Doctrinal Obstacle for SSPX

English Is a Perfectly Fine Catholic Liturgical Language
My First Anglican Communion


I Can't Believe You Haven't Read KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER

TAC: The 2012 Commencement Address of Mother Assumpta Long
College Awards its Highest Honor to Three Recipients
slideshow

When Catholics Were Cristeros

History:
Justinian’s reconquest of the West : ideology, warfare, religion, and politics in sixth-century Byzantium (PDF)

Interview with Dan Jones, author of The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

Feminism:
A comment on "Reframing Christian Marriage"
The Ultimate Short Advice about Women
Suz says: About Submissive Women

Why Are Feminists Against the Male Pill

FDL Book Salon: The New Feminist Agenda

Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders
Is there anyone TED won't feature?

Food, Diet and Health:
Taco Salad w/ Avocado & Cilantro Dressing

Wake Up, Food Television Execs! So Says Chris Cosentino.

New Potential Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods Found


Anthony Bourdain on Vegans



Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers Bring the Bluegrass to Slim's on Friday, May 4th


First Listen: Hilary Hahn and Hauschka, 'Silfra'

Katie Melua: Back from the Brink


Misc:
New Fashion Wrinkle: Stylishly Hiding the Gun

Hot Shots Episode 8 Clip - Clint Upchurch 3-Gun Training


Blue Force Gear is Growing

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Steep Canyon Rangers coming to SF

They will be performing on May 4, 9 P.M. ar Slim's.


Carrie Rodriguez will also be there. She has a concert at Don Quioxte on Wednesday, May 9 at 7:30 P.M.






The Northern California Bluegrass Society May 2012 Calendar
The Drifter Sisters will be playing at the Spring Situation, May 12.


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Items of Interest, 24 April 2012

What Must Leaders Know to Wield the “Five Swords of Imagination”? by Barbara J. Elliott

Ron Paul attacks CISPA in urgent call to oppose 'Big Brother' bill

New Law Makes Protesting Near the President Illegal; Judge Napolitano Calls It an ‘Assault on Free Speech’

FBI: Hundres of Thousands May Lose Internet in July

Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Egalitarianism by Carson Holloway


Hawaiian Libertarian: This is Your Brain, This is Your Brain on Porn

Obama on soldiers who posed with Afghan corpses: ‘Reprehensible’ conduct merits probe

Are we really more civilized than that? Or have we thrown our soldiers into an insane situation?

Damien Perrotin, Party Politics (EB)

Wendell Berry, American Hero by Mark Bittman
Wendell Berry in D.C. in Two Venues - Wendell Berry at National Cathedral

Economics:
The Exodus of American Manufacturing
Money and wealth: How to heal the disconnect by David Boyle (EB)


Farming:
WATCH: Joel Salatin on Building Resilience into Agriculture
The Value of Our Produce

Peak Oil and Energy:
A Snarky Guide to Peak Oil
Deepwater what?

Catholic:
The First Mass of a Young Ordinariate Priest: Fr. James Bradley
Pope: Women Have Key Role in Building Up Church in America
The statement is a little too facile and brief? Unless "Catholic feminism" has prevailed and dominates the thinking of Uhmerican Catholics on the roles of women.

Feminism:
"Marriage is For Losers"
But how many marriage counselors and therapists are biased towards women? What about respect for the man as a man and his authority as husband and father?
Anna Quindlen Over 50 and Having Plenty of Cake
Jack Donovan, Men in Uncomfortable Shoes

Diet and Health:
MovNat Will Change You: Commentary by Instructor Kellen Milad
Mark Sisson in South Africa
Let's Put an End to Dietary Tribalism

Movies:
Trailer - My S.O. Has Depression (Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite)


Music:
Steep Canyon Rangers:


Instrument Interview #3: Carolina Chocolate Drops


Katherine Jenkins & Mark Ballas - Samba - Week 6

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Items of Interest, 26 October 2011

James Matthew Wilson, Catholic Teaching and Global Political Authority
Rod Dreher, The cafeteria is only closed for liberal Catholics (see the comment by Adam De Ville)
Sandro Magister, "Occupy Wall Street." The Vatican at the Barricades


Creating Rural Wealth

Harvey Ussery and Broody Hens


Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need

NPR: The Informal Economy Driving World Business

Kevin Carson, There is No Disinterested Authority and Battle for the Heart of the Occupy Movement

Peak Oil:
The peak oil crisis: the energy trap by Tom Whipple (EB)
Oil and the Economy by Chris Martenson
A recording from yesterday's conference call with Cris Martenson is now available.
Individual statements in support of ASPO-USA's letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu (EB)

A return to the age of sail? The first Transition podcast! A visit to the Tres Hombres, tasting a revolution in shipping

The Environment:
Polluted America: Amazingly colourful aerial pictures that highlight damage to Earth wrought by industry
Grist: Is the environmental crisis caused by 7 billion or the 1%

Conservative:
Thomas Fleming, The End of the American Empire and Fight Night in Vegas
Jack Hunter, I'm still holding out hope that conservatism will triumph
Daniel Larison, Paul Ryan and Social Mobility
More ignorant "We're #1!" rhetoric from a Republican.

Counterpunch:
JOHN LAFORGE, Radiation Reporting
GARETH PORTER AND SHAH NOORI, U.N. Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids


NPR: Reporting from the front lines of Mexico's drug war

TAC hiring online editor
I find myself tempted by this...

Catholic:
Solemn Dominican Rite, Blackfriars, Oxford
Fr Thomas Kocik's Talk at Thomas More College
Further from the Association of Latin Liturgy and the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Pulling an all-nighter: The example of St. Dominic

Chant - Amor et Passio: Interview mit David Ianni


Anthony Esolen at Christendom College: Author Anthony Esolen Exposes Society's Misunderstanding of Love - his lecture can be downloaded at iTunes.

Music:
Heinrich Isaac, the film (full version)

Maine Song and Story Map
Bluegrass Diva with Steve Martin, Ed Helms and Noam Pikelny
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers will be at Villa Montalvo tomorrow.


Yo-Yo Ma on The Tonight Show

In the Footsteps of a Hero: The Joseph Brennan Story