Wednesday, December 31, 2003
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Sunday, December 28, 2003
Away: I'll be back. Unless, of course, I fall into a bottomless pit, in which case, it's been nice knowing you.
Friday, December 26, 2003
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Away: "Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists."
-- GK Chesterton
-- GK Chesterton
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Friday, December 19, 2003
Away: there's nothing like a 15 page research paper to make you hate feldspar, physics and the english language
Away: "Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists."
-- GK Chesterton
-- GK Chesterton
Away: "Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed."
-- GK Chesterton
-- GK Chesterton
Away: Finally there would be a thingamajig that would bring everyone together, even if it kept them apart spatially.
Away: if anyone knows a christine wallace who didn't get her women's claret down parka from lands' end, please tell her i have it.
Away: ryan has been a sick baby lately, so if she's skipped something she's usually at, or has declined your social invitation for no good reason, or has shown a disinclination to do anything but sit in bed reading silly manga, it's because she is constantly coughing, noseblowing and it hurts to swallow. it's nothing personal. for the most part.
Away: Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
And if I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
And if I die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Away: The russians shot up a dog. Laika. Peope were shooting up monkeys and stuff. I gave a frog a ride in a roller-skate once. That's all I did.
Away: No, no, no. If you burn the library down around them and eat their ashes, then you'll really be terrorists.
Away: little known fact
Away: Man, did I write stuff like this in 6th grade?
Veteran's Day is to remember the men and women who gave there lives for us to make our country free. If they hadn't fought we wouldn't be in school we would probably be out there fighting in a war. The only reason we get that day off is to honor the people who fought for are country and died in the process.
Veteran's Day is to remember the men and women who gave there lives for us to make our country free. If they hadn't fought we wouldn't be in school we would probably be out there fighting in a war. The only reason we get that day off is to honor the people who fought for are country and died in the process.
Away: I'll be back. Unless, of course, I fall into a bottomless pit, in which case, it's been nice knowing you.
Away: The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog
Away: "Turn the lights out when you leave the room, or your children will die in agony" - Rory explaining Professor Smith's lecture on the last day of Human Evolution.
Away: christopher columbus is really cruel because he killed all the native americans
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Away: "Where the tide flows towards increasing state control, Christianity, with its claims in one way personal and in the other way ecumenical and both ways antithetical to omnicompetent government, must always in fact (though not for a long time yet in words) be treated as an enemy. Like learning, like the family, like any ancient and liberal profession, like the common law, it gives the individual a standing ground against the State."
C.S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
C.S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity
Away: St. Julian the Hospitaler:
Patron saint of boatmen, innkeepers, and travelers, also called “the Poor.” Reported in the doubtful Golden Legend, Julian slew his noble parents in a case of mistaken identity. He believed his wife was with another man and struck them both. His wife returned home from church soon after. In penance, Julian and his wife went to Rome. Returning after receiving absolution, Julian built an inn and a hospital for the poor. He even put a leper into his own bed. That leper was an angel.
Patron saint of boatmen, innkeepers, and travelers, also called “the Poor.” Reported in the doubtful Golden Legend, Julian slew his noble parents in a case of mistaken identity. He believed his wife was with another man and struck them both. His wife returned home from church soon after. In penance, Julian and his wife went to Rome. Returning after receiving absolution, Julian built an inn and a hospital for the poor. He even put a leper into his own bed. That leper was an angel.
Away: Johnny Caspar: It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
Away: if i actually want to remain an episcopalian, i should probably stop reading spong and chesterton at the same time. it's so disheartening.
Away: Eventually I was convinced that we ought to be tolerant of any sort of crime except unequal distribution of income. In organized society the question always arises at what point are we justified in killing for the good of the community. I should answer in this way. If you take two shillings as your share and another man wants two shillings and sixpence, kill him. Similarly, if a man accepts two shillings while you have two shillings and sixpence, kill him.