“HO HO, HEY HEY, ENTE DEI EST ESSE!” A slogan for Aquinas, via Disputations. Read more

BEN DOMENECH has a good post on home-schooling and education in general. (He was home-schooled.) He doesn’t mention one other reason home-schooling is on the rise and causing conniption fits throughout the land: Home-schooling assumes that the family and the civic community are not at odds most of the time. Obviously this won’t always be true–the family might be teaching an ideology that would undermine the community; the parents might be abusing the kids. But the civic community can be... Read more

OH, AND JOE DE FEO has a contest: Slogans for Aquinas. Here’re my (lame) contributions: “More of Me to Love.” “I have seen that which makes all my writings like straw. And that’s one heck of a haystack.” “Girth, Mirth, and the Virgin Birth.” “The Ox Rocks.” “A Fantastic Scholastic.” “Funnier than you think.” Now go finish your paper, Joe. Read more

Did you watch too many blogs? I watched too many blogs. Did you watch too many blogs too, baby?… Michael Dubruiel: Some pungent examples of the rot and bad conscience that was spreading in the Church long before the horrendous sexual-abuse scandals went public. From the Middle of the Storm: The blog of Fr. Bob Carr, Parochial Vicar, at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross… in Boston. Apt title. Go check it out. Mike Hardy: Sensible post on homosexuality and... Read more

“Did you ever want to kill a man?” “My son, there’s murder in every intelligent man’s heart.” –John McGuire and extra, “Stranger on the Third Floor” Read more

I WAS WRONG (MAYBE): Reader emails have convinced me that my “it’s all economics” take on “Chinatown” (below) is probably wrong. I won’t back down for good until I’ve seen the movie again, but I’ll provisionally retract my criticism. Still think the kitten-kicking cartoonishness of the villain was over the top. But yes, the ending is great. Read more

To the blogwatch down at Mory’s (Wherever that may be), Let us drink a toast to all we love the best. We will sleep through all the lectures, And cheat on the exams, And we’ll pass, and be forgotten with the rest… All About George: This looks interesting. Via Matt Welch. Ben Domenech: Explanations of his Top 10 Favorite Movies list. I’ll probably do something similar soon; for the moment, my carping commentary on his list will have to suffice.... Read more

“How many times do I have to tell you, we’re not crooks!” –Richard Kiley to Jean Peters, “Pickup on South Street” Read more

AND IF FOR SOME REASON YOU HAVEN’T READ this Mark Steyn column–do it now. Read more

One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead, Blogwatch girl please look at me Blogwatch girl, what do you see? We’ll travel ’round the world, just you and me blogwatch girl… Michael Dubruiel: Abortion apologist won’t get a Spirit of St. Francis Award after all. Onealism: Responses to his chick-priest-challenge. Mark Shea: Link to a very good article on witch persecution; Aquinas meets Worf; re Cardinal Law, what is... Read more