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Chocolate bars
They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes;
They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
- G. K. Chesterton, The Secret People
I learned my views about...
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In defence of the pope
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more.
- Roger Waters, 1973
Media expert Marshal McLuhan once wrote that he simply pointed out what was happening in the...
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Books I have not read
There are lots of books that I have never read and never will read. The act of not-reading is portrayed as passive, but there is activity in not-reading. For example, I have actively chosen...
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The Catechism of Hockey
The Catechism of Hockey
by Alyssa Bormes
American Chesterton Society Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-97444-950-0
“What if Wayne Gretzky’s mother was his first teacher of hockey and supported him in hockey, and his dad sat in the easy chair...
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Double standards: the EU, seals, and abortion
Q. What are the sins that cry to heaven for vengeance? A. ...defrauding laborers of their wages. -Â Quebec Catechism, 1871
On 25 November 2013, the World Trade Organization (WTO) upheld the EU’s ban on seal...
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Cutting a Christmas Tree
"Father Christmas throws out with the same gigantic gesture the prig who can only sneer at the Christmas pudding and the snob who can only snarl at the Christmas waits." - G. K. Chesterton,...
