more than 95 theses

2009

December 66
November 35
October 39
September 50
August 103
July 142
June 64
May 91
April 75
March 104
February 85
January 84

2008

December 90
November 64
October 32
September 52
August 79
July 38
June 53
May 56
April 74
March 58
February 83
January 63

2007

December 56
November 63
October 81
September 86
August 1
July 63
June 82
May 48
April 53
March 73
February
January
via Bibliodyssey
Aug 31st
“Andy Gray talks about football as though he created it...”
— no one writes better about...
Aug 30th
Warch Watch
Samuel Backett, Endgame, Scene 1 — in Lego (hat tip: 3quarksdaily)
Aug 30th
Andy Crouch on the best thing about Sarah...
Aug 30th
Aug 29th
London at night by Jason Hawkes, via The Big Picture
Aug 29th
“The obvious precedent for Beijing was the Berlin Olympics,...”
— Anthony Lane at the Olympics,...
Aug 28th

Laurie Kendrick: men and women at the...

MALE PROCEDURE Drive up to cash machine Roll down window Insert card into machine; enter PIN ...
Aug 28th
“Is faith compatible with science? Does science take faith...”
— P. J. O’Rourke (via...
Aug 28th
Adam Zagajewski, "I Can't Write a Memoir of...
Aug 27th
Daniel Stojkovich, Tower of Babel 2 (2007); here, via...
Aug 27th
“It’s hard to forget my son’s summer-reading...”
— here, via Erin O’Connor
Aug 27th

fundraising letter of the day

Mr. Harry Potter Godric’s Hollow Gloucestershire BS37 A10 Dear Mr. Potter, Greetings...
Aug 27th
“One sits through long sessions wishing all the delegates and...”
— H. L. Mencken on the national...
Aug 26th

Slate's Apple issues

When Slate.com was owned by Microsoft it developed a habit of running negative stories about Apple,...
Aug 26th
Edward Christopher Hambley Prynn, the self-proclaimed...
Aug 26th

Dana Gioia, "Money"

Money, the long green, cash, stash, rhino, jack or just plain dough. Chock it up, fork it over,...
Aug 26th

goals

Mainline Protestants love to talk about the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. When...
Aug 26th
“It’s a nice to think that simply lowering the drinking...”
— Darshak Sanghavi in Slate
Aug 26th
“The Daily Telegraph was first out of the starting gate,...”
— Anne Applebaum
Aug 25th
Hitchens on the 40th anniversary of the...
Aug 25th
amazing Olympic photographs from The Big...
Aug 25th
“All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its...”
— John Ruskin
Aug 25th

the Sunday morning prayer of Lancelot...

Through the tender mercies of our God the day-spring from on high hath visited us. Glory be to...
Aug 24th
“Why does money makes us less willing to seek or give help,...”
— more details on an interesting...
Aug 24th
“Once, of course, I was a teenage atheist; and it brings me...”
— Julie Burchill,...
Aug 23rd
medal counting
Aug 22nd
“Britain is the worst country in the Western world in which...”
— Theodore Dalrymple
Aug 22nd
Aug 22nd
Michael Chesko’s miniature Manhattan, via Tinselman
Aug 22nd

where nice guys finish

I am obsessive about gathering and managing data of all kinds that I find on the internet: scholarly...
Aug 22nd
Aug 21st
Aug 21st
Kevin Cornell’s forthcoming illustrated edition of The...
Aug 21st
Posters for each Olympic Games can be found here
Aug 21st
and the Water Cube (interior view)
Aug 18th
The Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing rendered in Lego...
Aug 18th
Giant Vegetables and the People Who Grow Them
Aug 18th
Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion at Kensington...
Aug 17th

another correction needed?

A while back I posted a quote from an article in the Wall Street Journal claiming that there has...
Aug 16th
“All this gives Darfur a morbid sort of distinction. No...”
— Richard Just in The New...
Aug 15th
“To dismiss alternative medicine too quickly is to miss a...”
— Kent Sepkowitz in Slate
Aug 14th
an inflatable chapel! (complete with altar,...
Aug 12th
The 2002 eruption of Mt. Etna as seen from the space shuttle...
Aug 12th
“Congenitally blind athletes, who have never seen a soccer...”
— via Wired. This is unrelated...
Aug 11th
“Et l’amertume de faire surface pour assombrir...
Aug 11th
“Each night, the Sap-o-Meter will power up as NBC’s...”
— introducing Slate’s...
Aug 11th
“The Americans have long been aware of the impact of heavy...”
— a five-year-old story which I...
Aug 10th
“King Solomon had ten thousand wives In his house of cedar...”
— from a Distributist song,...
Aug 10th
orchid, by Duncan Davidson
Aug 10th
“The Joker makes even evil seem a puzzle too easily solved...”
— Michael Wood in the LRB
Aug 10th
“Another more troubling possibility is that the Gulag, into...”
— Henry Porter on the limited...
Aug 10th
“Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do...”
— Structured Procrastination...
Aug 9th
news that stays news
Aug 9th
drummers during the Olympic opening ceremonies: a wonderful...
Aug 9th
Jason Santa Maria
Aug 9th
Rchard Kew: the scapegoating of the...
Aug 8th

correction and/or clarification

In relation to this post, a gracious response from George Smith: “I am the rector of St....
Aug 8th
my beloved at Cheaha State Park, Alabama (July 2008)
Aug 8th
DeSoto State Park, Alabama (July 2008)
Aug 8th
wildflowers at the Morton Arboretum
Aug 8th
“‘These books are fairly dark, very depressing – a bit...”
— Publishers on the fall book...
Aug 8th

guilt by association

When I was a boy, we would drive up to Hanceville, Alabama several times a year to see my great-aunt...
Aug 7th
Aug 7th
“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that...”
— Marilynne Robinson, from Home...
Aug 7th

mail on the Mac

The ideal Mac email client would have the excellent threading and one-line message previews of...
Aug 7th
Wet Turban Needless Wash! (available only on Air China)
Aug 6th

the Archbishop

I have quoted from Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, a number of times in recent weeks....
Aug 6th
“And as we come to the conclusion of our Conference, we very...”
— Rowan Williams, concluding...
Aug 6th

a response to Peter Ould

Peter Ould, an English Anglican priest deeply committed to orthodoxy, has written a post about the...
Aug 5th
Warch Watch
Pixar’s Up (May 2009)
Aug 4th
“How easy it is to live with You, O Lord. How easy to...”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1972
Aug 4th
“‘Anglicans are a profoundly diverse community who...”
— Rowan Williams, concluding...
Aug 3rd
“In the past three decades, Chicago has undergone changes...”
— The New Republic (may be...
Aug 3rd
There are so many different ways to be freaked out.
Aug 2nd
from the Trib’s collection of Worst Album Covers...
Aug 2nd
Some of these just freak me out.
Aug 2nd
“It does not keep you safe; it does not give you the words...”
— Rowan Williams, “King...
Aug 2nd
“After a day of discussion on Aug. 1 concerning the proposed...”
— The Living Church
Aug 2nd