Category: Around St Blog’s

Vales first: looks like Vociferous Yawpings is bowing out. Bummer. I’d read it just for the title. Aves: Speaking of Caritate Dei, Robert Diaz is inviting everyone to check out his group blog Eternal Rebels, which has a cool Chestertonian title and some new members.

T.S. O’Rama posts on economic systems and “bridling capitalism:” One of the negatives of a global economy is that inefficiencies are squashed, and inefficiences can be humane. For example, companies in France and Germany are having to become leaner in order to remain competitive with the U.S. and Japan. Vacation time and benefits in European… Continue reading More on economics

The Curt Jester brings our attention to Steve’s great post on the seven capital sins, Seven Means to Seven Sorrows: It’s amazing really. From Bach to Eminem, every bit of music is a variation on eight simple notes. The same goes for literature – the Greeks identified roughly a half-dozen different plots, and that’s all… Continue reading Seven Means to Seven Sorrows

my smelling salts…. head…swelling…..

I want to thank Pansy Moss for her first-hand example of racial attitudes in America. To address Mr. De Nunzio’s point further, there was no question in the comments on this Blog of ignoring or trivializing racial differences. Indeed, as Pansy says, they are deeply entrenched. The question is, why do these differences exist and… Continue reading Mr. Anger has an interesting comment at ECR

Jeff Culbreath presents Mr. Matt Anger’s commentary on leftism, racism, paleo-conservatism, slavery, throwing babies out with bathwater…. oh, just go read the essay, it’s good: Catholics don’t defend something on the basis of whether it is “old” or “new,” but right or wrong. Mr. [Sam] Francis, however, believing that whatever the left hates must be… Continue reading Race, Liberalism, and the Catholic Response

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Elinor Dashwood has a delightful thread going on on Literary Loves: What fictional character or characters have you ever fallen in love with? Now this is how much of a plunker I am: Elinor first floated this idea in an email to me. Not only have I not come up with any literary loves, I… Continue reading Literary Valentines