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As of today, I am now the father of a (shudder) teenager! God have mercy. Seriously, happy birthday to Son #1! Thanks for both making me feel old and helping to keep me young all at the same time.

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He was, in his own words, a "sick f**k" -- but, behind the comedy, lurked a serious, insightful, and I think idealistic man. On Ignorant Americans: On Soft Language and Euphemisms (my favorite): If you're too tender to listen to it all, here is the key discourse: I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic

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New blog! (OK, not that new, but I'm slow...) Our friend Mary Lund is now blogging at A Homestead Daughter about her life as, well... it's pretty obvious from the title, now isn't it?

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This is beautiful: Be united but not closed off. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialog with everyone, but remain yourselves. -- Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the youth of Genoa, May 18, 2008 (via Amy Welborn)

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I have so been here before: (H/T: MCJ, source here)

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Compare this (via MCJ): LOS ANGELES - The Bishop of the Epsicopal diocese of Los Angeles has issued an apology to Hindus worldwide for what he called "centuries-old acts of religious discrimination by Christians, including attempts to convert them" reports India Abroad. The apology was given in a statement read to over 100 Hindu spiritual leaders at a mass from Right Reverend J John Bruno. The

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Ann Arbor: following the lead of Ypsilanti! Ann Arbor Council Member Stephen Kunselman is championing the right to have your own all-natural eggs, which he says taste much better than store-bought variety. At a council retreat Saturday, Kunselman, D-3rd Ward, brought up changing city laws to allow chickens back in the city. He says there is a group of local business people and residents who

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Last night, I dragged the kids through the Tour de Fresh in Ypsilanti, which was a showcase of cool things happening locally to promote local food production. Weird synchronicity #1: At tour signin at the Ypsilanti Farm Market, the table next to us was being operated by David's old Cub scout leader and fellow den member. I had no idea they sold stuff at the farm market. Maybe my boys should be

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Today is the one-year anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg Address. As part of our homeschool co-op responsibilities, I find myself about to teach a class on logic. Using Son #1 as a guinea pig for the class, I ran through the intro with him last night, and needed to find some explanation of why logic and reason matter, and most especially, why they should matter to us as Christians.

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From Hilary, via Dale: lyricsI'm not even English myself -- just an in-law, really. Even so. I suppose it doesn't help that last night's activity was reading aloud Howard Pyle's Robin Hood where good King Richard the Lion's Heart came to Sherwood Forest and set things aright ... But it's more than that: And we learn to be ashamed before we walk, Of the way we look and the way we talk.

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Today's Office reading from the Wisdom of Solomon seems pretty up-to-the-minute: 1 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, "Short and sorrowful is our life, and there is no remedy when a man comes to his end, and no one has been known to return from Hades. 2 Because we were born by mere chance, and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been; because the breath in our nostrils

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For those who aren't following the players, The Episcopal Church has asked for a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury (to "dialogue", I suppose) regarding the potential expulsion of TEC from the Anglican Communion. +++Williams has indicated that he is on vacation through the rest of the summer. Sources say that he may actually be in America part of the time, but he is still unavailable to

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The Lord is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia!

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Some good news for Michigan: Craftworkers carve growing niche in state's economy Dave Kober carves extraordinary fish decoys. Edmund Whitepigeon passes on his basket-making technique to his daughter-in-law. And Edna Harbison sells her hand-sewn quilts at her Ontonagon store. What do these people have in common? They are part of the rich heritage of an under-the-radar group of Michiganians:

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I've always wanted one of these: My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Bishop Lord Zachary the Bibulous of Westessexchestershire Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title Hat tip to Dale.

Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658949890957239166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527674.post-54026729338302754262006-11-22T07:00:00.000-05:002006-11-22T07:11:06.045-05:00

My previous post on the "death pledge" drew a good comment, which deserves pulling up into a post: Usury was traditionally condemned for two reasons. The first was that much moneylending was small amounts for personal consumption by the wasteful or desperate -- rather like taking out a loan on the family farm to pay for your mother's operation or to feed a gambling habit. (Incidentally, farmers

Zachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07658949890957239166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527674.post-1162382367396859552006-11-01T06:48:00.000-05:002006-11-16T13:25:13.589-05:00

A man who builds his house with other people's money is like one who gathers stones for his burial mound. -- Sirach 21:8 (RSV)So much for the mortgage industry. It is therefore worth remembering that the literal origin of the word 'mortgage' is 'death pledge'. And perhaps it is time to remember that usury has been traditionally condemned as a sin against justice.

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In honor of the good King's feast day today (in both the Catholic and Anglican calendars), I thought I'd post a bit. James Kiefer's mini-biography The Royal Family's website on King Alfred Wikipedia's entry for King Alfred the Great Another King Alfred page, this one with links to contemporary biographies. And, of course, my motivation and introduction to King Alfred, G. K. Chesteron's The

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In my previous post, I had some harsh words for a certain Islamic cleric, due to his quoted commentary on Pope Benedict's Regensburg address and the subsequent hysteria. On further consideration, I realized that I was failing to remember the Sheaism of "subtract 50 IQ points when the MSM discusses religion." And also, "do not attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice." So.

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No, this isn't about "dialogue" within The Episcopal Church (although it could be). This week, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg on the relationshiop between faith and reason, and the importance of and legitimate position of Greek philosophy within Church teaching. Dry stuff, eh? Not when he quotes, in the first third of his talk, the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II

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Dale has tagged me with the "name five people" meme, so, here goes... If you could meet and have a deep conversation with any five people on earth, living or dead, from any time period, who would they be?" (Explaining why is optional.) Name five people from each of the following categories:Saints, Those in the Process of Being Canonized, Heroes from your native country, Authors/Writers,

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Answering machine message heard: Hi, you've almost reached the Price's. We're either out enjoying a walk, or off on some nefarious mission for Opus Dei ... Now really, Dale. We all know that you're actually busy saving the world from the Spirit of Vatican II.

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Worst of all apostates is the clever person who can explain the Faith but who loves only himself. -- Pavel Chichikov

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One family's many 'blessings': Walt and Wendy Cukierski are the proud parents of eleven "blessings" — Walter Jr., Weston, William, Wellsley, Wyatt, Wade, Waylan, Woodman, Walker, Wiley and Wilson (due any moment). The Cukierski family, whose home is in the state of New York, has their own Internet apostolate specializing in Catholic sacramentals and dedicated to "help[ing] save the innocent

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Well. We thought we would take Barbara Nicolosi's advice to othercott The Da Vinci Code this weekend. Silly us! We assumed that a major Dreamworks release would actually have at least one screen playing in Ann Arbor. Nope. All Duh Vichy, all duh time. Gaaagh!!! UPDATE: It was an information glitch -- Over The Hedge actually played Ann Arbor (as shown by the Showcase marquee). But, one

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