The Monks of Springbank: Accomplishing What Leviathan Never Could

Over at the New Liturgical Movement, I have posted a story about the Abbey of Our Lady of Springbank, a Cistercian monastery in rural Wisconsin.  They were featured this morning on the Today show: <iframe height=”339″ width=”425″ src=”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/26957540#26957540″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no”></iframe> The amazing thing about these monks is that they have achieved everything that Leviathan has [...]

Clearly, I would make a bad businessman

One of the worst things you can do for your blog traffic is to disappear for the better part of a month. That’s what I just did. Long story short, work was busy: I spent at least a week preparing for what ended up being a fool’s errand. Then I got a last minute gig [...]

Slow posting, et al

Apologies for the slow posting of late.  This is crunch time in my business, so I only get to blog at irregular intervals.  Please keep coming back! While I am presently elbow-deep in William Byrd’s music, the government is busy screwing us over for a good generation or two.  Strangely enough, the modern liberals I [...]

Glenn Gould plays Brahms

One of my favorite musicians plays one of my favorite composers.  The Glenn Gould year is just winding down, and what better way to mark it than with the golden autumnal works of Johannes Brahms?

Die Polizei: Helping you to fund Leviathan since 1789

On Saturday, I had the immense, if only occasional, privilege of sitting in the dreadful traffic on I-76 just west of Philadelphia. Even weekends around here are no guarantee that traffic will be tolerable, and so, with nothing but a nice warm dinner on my mind, I crawled through suburban PA at 10 mph, wondering [...]

The modern social acceptability of rudeness

I work as a church organist, and this is in fact an interesting perch from which to view the doings of modern man.  I can tell stories that you wouldn’t believe.  Some clergymen could tell you even better ones. I have two jobs, and at one of them this morning, we had some guests present [...]

The whole Ron Paul press conference has now been YouTubed

You can see it here. What Congressman Paul has done here is quite brilliant.  Yes, this project is making for some strange bedfellows–Chuck Baldwin, Ralph Nader, Bob Barr (?), and Cynthia McKinney–but it is designed not as a complete platform but rather as (a) a way to express agreement on four crucial issues and (b) [...]

U.S. Catholic Bishops take on Bush Administration’s immigration raids

From Rocco comes this story: For over a year now, DHS has targeted employers who hire unauthorized workers by using force to enter worksites and arrest immigrant workers. During the process of these raids, U.S.-citizen children have been separated from their parents for days, if not longer; immigrants arrested have not been afforded the rights [...]

Criminalizing sloppy dress

This story comes to us from the “government is a panacea” department.  Riviera Beach, FL is cracking down on the insidious behavior of sloppy dress. Um, doesn’t it seem pretty obvious that if someone hasn’t enough pride to dress properly, no law is going to get them to do so?  These laws often sound good [...]

The Ice Cream Diet: An Update

A few weeks ago I explained my new diet, which involved, among running and other things, eating ice cream. After I lost ten pounds, though, I hit a plateau, and the result of this is that ice cream is only part of my day roughly twice a week. I am now running up to 4.5 [...]