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Just Discovered: lost comments
I was wondering what happened to the comments that usually come when one posts. Apparently Blogger took it upon itself to moderate the comments without my knowing where the comments lingered while...
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How to Explain?
It is so difficult when people crucify others for misspeaking during a public speech.If you go here, you'll find some particularly difficult people making fun of James O'Keefe. This seems to be an...
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To See Things As They Are
As I mentioned last week, I had to leave the Conference early when something came up at home requiring my presence on-site. What I forgot to mention then - either at the Conference or in my LENGTHY...
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First Day of the 3rd Year of Chesterton Academy
These are the lucky kids who attend Chesterton Academy, a school based on ideals put forth in Chesterton's writings.This is the third year of operation, and the school is obviously growing by leaps and...
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Behold and See 5
New for homeschoolers, Science for grade 5, written by our own Gilbert columnist David Beresford.
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Looking at "Abbr." - or, the Mirror of Life
One of the very best things one learns as one explores the vast cosmos - a trick hidden from most students, alas, and ignored by most of the modern industries - is that one can use knowledge from one...
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Drinkers live longer
Drinkers live longer than teetotalers, says this news article. I wonder why it didn't work with the Chesterton and Shaw?
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2b or not 2b
Wow. I just spotted an amazing comment made on one of my earlier postings, to wit, the one on positive and negative triangles. Here it is:Sheila writes: Ooh, I actually knew about the "handed" isomers...
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Art and Technology, or, the Magic of Chiral Letters and Trains
One of the odd lines I overheard at the Chesterton Conference was something regarding a tension or division between "art" and "technology". I laughed, since it is so a-Chestertonian. Note: I did not...
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Violence on the Planes
Yeah, I almost choked at Holy Mass today when I heard that in the readings - and something about the destruction of the buildings in the north. The gospel (about the cure of the centurion's servant)...
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Palin again: rRNA beyond the pale, or the suppressed pun?
In this, my final posting of the summer, I will get political. Hee hee. Yes, in a rare foray into the maelstrom of the popular news, I reach in for a piece of verbal excitement, much as our Uncle...
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Tuesday's bit of Latin: omniBUS
Not that I have loads of spare time, but since things seem to be a little too quiet these days on the INTERNET I thought I ought to start something. Ahem. I mean start another posting series. Also,...
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4294967295, or, the Last Number
Today is the Equinox, the beginning of Autumn. As I am sure you know by now (as Chesterton points out) since the God of Christianity is the real God of the universe, Christianity has something say...
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Tuesday's Bit of Latin: Franciscan Humour
Since next Monday is the feast of St. Francis, I thought I would post this in advance so you can tell your Franciscan (and Benedictine) friends about it.--Dr. Thursday.There is a joke about a...
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The Secret of the Sword
"To St. Michael, In Time Of Peace" Michael, Michael: Michael of the Morning, Michael of the Army of the Lord. Stiffen thou the hand upon the still sword, Michael, Folded and shut upon the sheathed...
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Conjugating your sonnets and integrating your relations
Caution: HUMOR WARNING. This posting contains Funny Material. Laughing may result. Prolonged laughing has not been observed in lab rats so all those government-acronym places don't know what will...
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Coming to a Conclusion
The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty. [GKC Heretics CW1:196]Yes - we have come to a conclusion. This the last column I am writing for...
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The Start of the Transition to Something New
I'm pleased to announce that we are beginning the transition to a new American Chesterton Society web site, one that will combine the best of the old site with the best of the Gilbert Magazine site,...
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