1. The weather is warming up, which means my middle schoolers were extra rowdy this week. I am increasingly convinced that children are, in truth, reptiles. 2. For recreation I started re-reading The Ball and the Cross for the first time in quite a while. Chesterton's way with words is of the sort that is … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Various and Sundry
Poem – “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend,—"If the British marchBy land or sea from the town to-night,Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-archOf the North-Church-tower, as a … Continue reading Poem – “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Friday Flotsam: 26 to 48, America Lists, and ‘Godzilla x Kong’
1. First and foremost is some pretty big life news: after much searching and many applications, I've been offered a full-time teaching job with a traditional Catholic, classical education school. The only slight catch is that it's, ah, rather far. I live in Metro Detroit, and the job is in Phoenix, Arizona. Which means that … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: 26 to 48, America Lists, and ‘Godzilla x Kong’
Wednesday Politics: Some Constitution Impressions
One of my recent personal study projects has been outlining the Constitution. One picks up on so much more and retains so much more when one has to actually write something out or summarize it point by point. **My chief impression is how odd it is that we continue to use and hold such reverence … Continue reading Wednesday Politics: Some Constitution Impressions
A Constitution Meme
Poetry – “The Conscript”
I am a peaceful working man—I am not wise or strong—But I can follow Nature’s planIn labour, rest, and song. One day the men that rule us allDecided we must die,Else pride and freedom surely fallIn the dim bye and bye. They told me I must write my nameUpon a scroll of death;That some day … Continue reading Poetry – “The Conscript”
Another Loyalist Meme
A combination of historical reading and skimming a few contemporary and near-contemporary political essays led to this image taking form in my mind:
Friday Flotsam: World War II, Political Theory, and Tarzan
1. My US History class finished up the Second World War this week. There is really nothing like that event in all of history, certainly not in living memory. The whole world goes to war, and against an incredibly evil ideology on one side of the globe and what might be described as a civilization … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: World War II, Political Theory, and Tarzan
Thought of the Day: Unequally Wrong
Both major 'sides' of a given issue may well be wrong, but they're unlikely to be equally wrong. To say they are is usually a sign that the speaker is less interested in the issue itself than in his own rhetoric.
Poetry – “The Road Not Taken”
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that … Continue reading Poetry – “The Road Not Taken”
Serpent's Den 