Strange November

Finally, on the last day of the month, we have a typical November day: overcast, cold, and a landscape that is grey and brown, melancholy if not depressing. For it has been a strange November, more like September, rainy and windy but warm. How warm? I have seen forsythia and iris blooming, that’s how warm. November [...]

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Keeping America Safe

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Capitalism

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Urban Farming: Cleveland

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s called The Forgotten Triangle, a sparsely populated no-man’s-land on the edge of Cleveland’s Kinsman neighborhood where the few remaining residents joke that the population doubles at night, when outsiders come to dump garbage, debris and tires. It is in this most unlikely of places, on roughly an acre of land that [...]

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Attention Distributist Bibliophiles

Red Owen is selling a lot of good books, including first editions of many distributist classics. Now that he is a commie, he doesn’t want them, but I’m sure someone  out there does: “Starting tomorrow, hopefully, I’m about to sell another batch of books.  Need cash to buy an alternator for the car and some [...]

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Jorma Kaukonen: Genesis

Jorma Kaukonen was the lead guitarist for Jefferson Airplane, and I found myself listening to his solo album Quah on Thanksgiving. Here is a live version of one of my favorite songs, from around 1990:

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Encampment and Community

A young woman in New York who has been covering the Occupy Wall Street protests wonders: “The point is not that the cops are all bad guys while the occupiers are good, or even that Occupation is itself the answer. Rather, the question that Anne’s experience raises is this: how did it get to the [...]

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House of Representatives Declares Pepper Spray a Pizza Topping

“That’s ridiculous,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi (D, CA). “Pizza toppings don’t come in spray cans. You might as well call Cheez Whiz a pizza topping.” “It’s not?” asked Boehner with a tear in his eye. From Is Outrage!:  http://isoutrage.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/house-of-representatives-declares-pepper-spray-a-pizza-topping/

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Easter, the Calendar, and Christian Witness

For the last two years the date for Easter fell on the same Sunday for Western Christians and the Orthodox. This year we are back to normal, with widely separated celebrations. If the question of dating Easter is as confusing for you as it has been for me, this little article explains it all, simply: http://www.cnewa.org/blog.aspx?ID=0&pagetypeID=31&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1

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For Sunday: Everyone’s Favorite Advent Hymn

The Nativity Fast began on November 15th for Byzantine Catholics, but Advent only begins for Latin Catholics this Sunday. Here is the classic Advent hymn: Icon by Daniel Nichols

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