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Editor's Corner
Escape from Seattle
The analogy to the 1981 John Carpenter film Escape from New York is a limited one, for Manhattan in the fictional account, turned into one giant prison - set in what seems a now...
Quotes
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder (G.K. Chesterton)
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Americans, Giving Thanks
A blessed and joyous Thanksgiving to all our readers south of the 49th parallel, in the great, but not-so-much United, States of America. The Covidian divisions are separating mother-in-law from daughters-in-law in ways we...
Nota in Brevis
A Neutered Darwin Award
This is the anniversary of the first printing of Darwin's Origin of Species, back in 1859, whose theme was the 'survival of the fittest' or, more accurately, the non-survival of the un-fit.
We will have...
Quotes
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony. (Pope Piux XI,...
Nota in Brevis
Newsom’s Backhanded Favour
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California with the slicked-back hair, has, according to Congressman Tom McClintock, apparently done us an unwitting favour, being caught flaunting the same bothersome and burdensome Covid protocols he has...
Quotes
Indeed the blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will, and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been his mother, and she was more blessed...
Editor's Corner
Moscati, Trump and the Melee
I must confess that I had no idea today was the feast of Saint Joseph Moscati (+1927) medical man and miracle worker, who signifies in a vivid way not only the ideal to which...
