Redeem the Time

A few items I’ve been saving:

Tutor David Quackenbush, “the father of 10 fully developed embryos,” penned an op-ed about stem cells. He asks:

Are we doing enough justice to the moral value of first principles as machetes?

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Norris Archer Harrington (see nordog.com) has an excellent op-ed explaining liberal education in the Dallas Morning News:

If you buy into the lie that the only kind of education that matters is that which helps you make money, you will be a slave to ignorance and to the brilliant but amoral sorts who would manipulate your pretensions to practicality.

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Dr. Michael M. Waldstein is set to publish the definitive version of The Theology of the Body: A New Translation Based on the John Paul II Archives, with a foreword by Cardinal Schonborn and a preface by Christopher West. Read this Catholic Online article to discover why this new version of JPII’s magnum opus will be “definitive.”

Go read o.c.’s sermon on these verses.

Vomit the Lukewarm is now Assimilatio Dei.

These TAC grads have a blogging baby.

Comments are back, so go ahead and leave ‘em if you were thwarted from doing so the last few days. I have responded (or will soon) to a few things here and there below.

In response to a philosophy blogger, Vomit the Lukewarm, still waiting for Elijah, says that if philosophy is supposed to question everything it would have nothing with which to ask the question(s), and therefore nothing to ask. You gotta serve somebody, as Dylan used to sing—and you also gotta either accept the principle of contradiction which you already have received, or embrace confusion.

Effortless Atrocities is back in action, with a post about his infamous, island dwelling, North Carolinan relative Julian Sidi Limehouse III, who according to a recent paper report “….is comprised of equal parts modern-day pirate, gentleman farmer, scrapper, rural legend, ex-con, former state representative, and country squire. Who else has been convicted and served time in prison for helping smuggle close to 19,000 pounds of marijuana onto an island he co-owned with the then-governor.“

No, you can’t make this stuff up.

Meanwhile, after 25, what are birthdays good for? An Old Fashioned Tony Danza says, “well, I’m not dead yet,” is probably the best way to look on the bright side of life.

Boomer of The Bonny Prince reaches a conclusion after a series of posts about Dante:

“Why does Dante hide another meaning beneath a more evident meaning?” He does it because that is the nature of reality, and as a poet he is striving to imitate reality. Reality or creation is . . . organized hierarchically with God at the center than moving from the more spiritual to the less spiritual. And this is exactly the overall structure of the Divine Comedy: it is a journey into the center; it is a concentric pilgrimage into the heart of reality–God.

Lickona awaits a response from his editors concerning his new manuscript (rumored to go deeper and harder than the first); meanwhile he pesters them with a poem. UPDATE: Book II in its present form has been rejected, but no doubt this will only be a temporary setback from which good will come.

Cozy Tea-Blue House talks about prenatal screening and diagnosis in response to questions raised in the comments here over at Sicut Cervus, who has since posted this on the pregnant topic.

Speaking of Mrs. Bear of Cozy Tea-Blue House, Studeo sent me a kind word about how this blogger says Wee Bear’s words about his “monter twucks” refutes Darwin.

Also, someone’s mad about the People’s Republic of SF’s recent gun ban; Nordog overhears something at the Hospital; Neoteronous gives us a glimpse of D.C.; I wish Chim the provider would blog more.

UPDATE: And check out this awesome Housewifery post, inspired by Thomist Fulton Sheen, about the difference between Being and Doing—a distinction which Queenie finds confused in Communist thought, our historicist schools, and homosexuals who think the Church is persecuting them.

UPDATE: Joey laments his TAC degree regarding his ability to whore himself out for money. That shallow, ungrateful, little man. Personally, I find serving the masses greasy, fat food the better to lead them to an early death via massive heart attacks to be extremely satisfying, regardless of what the minimum wage happens to be.

Heh. That title sounds a lot like the comment spam I am constantly deleting.

Another excellent grad blog, burn cells brained out is always a good read.

Also, go here and scroll down to read Not’s post entitled “Pornography Sunday.” Not quotes a nodoubt wise priest saying that porn is ” the big elephant in the modern world’s living room;” she also offers this excellent simile:

“lust is like drinking saltwater to quench a deep thirst”

Let’s see…a Catholic medical school student wandering in the valleys of the culture of death [culture of 2=3] —Obstetrics and Gynecology, of course.

And then…everyone’s favorite unruly bachelor has gone from sleepy Ojai to Crazy Queens and now to a small town trailer park, which Seldom is, of course, managing [scroll and scroll for all the sordid, roach-ridden details]…

Meanwhile, this guy—still a protty after all those TAC years—has been blogging up a notsoproverbial electric storm, and getting more and more seriousinagoodway.

UPDATE:

Meanwhile Beitiathustra is melting the glacier he stands upon with his torrent of words on modern Physics and more…

Matthew Lickona still manages a post or two while working on his new book…I know how writing deadlines go (setting one’s own schedule, etc.) …I can’t imagine what a pain that would be as regards a full. on. book. Heh.

There are some interesting posts on the virtue of Hope, youth, and poetry (a bonus Gerard Manley Hopkins interpretation!) here, including this poem:

Upon the Young Ladies at Our Lady’s University

Lipstick splattered, powdered smears,
Discoloured streaks of ironed hair,
Mascara blots the crusted tears
Of Vulture eyes that search and stare

If you didn’t catch it, Fumare aired so much of Ave Maria Law School and College’s dirty laundry (but personally, I think its mostly clean) over the last few weeks that they recently started a separate blog to talk about all that schtuff.

Over in Gotham City, Joey debates about what race he’d prefer his sandwich-maker to be, and muses:

I often struggle with identify issues. Who am I as a white man and the child of a white father and white mother in America in the 21st century? I don’t have all the answers.

Another TAC grad blog here.

One:

People desire to make Aristotle’s God “rational” because they want to make Aristotle a rationalist, and this is an excuse to read him in as a humanist or secularist thinker. But trying to understand Aristotle apart from God is like trying to understand the road to Athens apart from Athens. Aristotle’s whole life was ordered to the contemplation of God, and all the roads of his philosophy lead to such contemplation.

Two:

One chief reason for the Scripture and the Sacraments is that we are the sorts of beings that are more drawn to boobs and sparkly-wedding dresses than to the angelic hierarchy and the contemplation of the divine nature.

A photoblog I didn’t know about—be sure to check out all the other photoblogs listed under “pictures” in the lefthand column.

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And another TAC grad here, setting something else up here.

Oh yeah—Achilles Running noticed a poem I recently trew up onto the long defunct instapoet.com site. Hey, somebody had to do it—more people should.