Early Papism -- 11th c ( Read more... )

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The end of the semester is by now a familiar ritual. Textbooks undergo their version of the apocalypse, being drawn before my terrible and absolute judgment: the saints, having lived useful, chaste lives, ascend gloriously to the bookcase. The irremediable scoundrels I consign to abandonment, especially if they were used to begin with-which raises ( Read more... )

From which totally false idea of social government they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an "insanity," viz., that "liberty of conscience and worship is each man's personal right, which ought to be legally proclaimed and ( Read more... )

I was surprised to find that the OED hardly registers the headlong plummet this word has endured. In a bit of salubrious atavism, rhetoric remains for the OED-as perhaps it always will-the art of eloquent and persuasive speaking, exactly as Cicero or Quintilian would define it ( Read more... )

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A euphemism-soaked Islamic radical bent on the destruction of Western civiliation is ushered with "enlightened" approbation into the inner sanctum of British academe...? Read your Chesterton ( Read more... )

Scene opens with Mr. Cunningham sitting in a chair in the living room. Mrs. Cunningham is pottering about. Fonzi enters.

FONZI: Hey, Mr. C.!

MR CUNNINGHAM: Choke on your presumption! Pulls out revolver and plugs Fonzi. Fonzi crumples to the ground.MRS CUNNINGHAM: Oh Howard! Must you really be so abrupt ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, if you set out to devote the whole day to work, you actually end up accomplishing less than if you give over a significant portion of the day to pleasure and then finally set about working later on ( Read more... )

Any equations beyond the quadratic come from the devil. Exponential functions stomp on small, defenseless animals. Logarithmic functions slept with your wife and secretly fathered that kid of yours with the funky red hair. Rational functions are personally responsible for the interminable media focus on Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Cubic and ( Read more... )