tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94772362009-10-08T22:10:43.026-04:00Welcome, all--dwarves, elves, hobbits, orcs, eagles, wizards, red-state Rohan and blue-state Gondor.The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2153125Wittingshirehttp://feedburner.google.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-4619646336084977302009-08-14T15:20:00.000-04:002009-08-14T15:20:00.683-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.com... from the twelve-year-old: "What's the difference between a loin and a groin?"At least this one wasn't about how space bends.<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-question-i-cant-answer-off-top.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-6856723474707378932009-08-11T19:00:00.001-04:002009-08-11T19:20:36.494-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comJonathan read this to us at breakfast a couple of days ago.From Melissus ("the Samian disciple of Parmenides," disagreeing here with Parmenides, who had declared that Being is spatially finite):If...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-being-is-finite.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-89346958864985421892009-08-04T10:15:00.000-04:002009-08-04T10:15:29.394-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comSeveral of you have been kind enough to wonder if the Witts are okay. Yes, we are. I'm just busy planning for the college composition courses I'll be teaching in the fall, and for home school as...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/08/boys-and-men.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-71430584327343478452009-06-04T09:29:00.003-04:002009-06-04T09:32:51.895-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comJonathan has an article, "The Mr. Potato Head Constitution," up at The American Spectator Online. As the title indicates, it's both funny and scary.<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/06/mr-potato-head-constitution.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-82458983747767618212009-05-26T12:12:00.003-04:002009-05-26T12:12:00.316-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comHere's Anthony Esolen's response:Let us suppose I have a fancy revolver with twenty chambers. Suppose that we put one bullet in the revolver, in one of the chambers. Suppose also that I and my pal...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/but-i-didnt-mean-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-87708040357714717042009-05-22T11:35:00.007-04:002009-05-22T12:48:59.181-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comIn grad school I had a brilliant literature professor who loved to cook because, he said, it was hands-on and gave an immediate reward, unlike his professional life. He needed something concrete.I...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/work-with-your-hands.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-25707723575825002882009-05-12T12:00:00.004-04:002009-05-12T16:45:28.566-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comUpdate: The Michael Medved Show streams here.Our friend Jay Richards will be on the Michael Medved Show today talking about his new book, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-capitalism-is-solution-not-problem.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-79837047092716245212009-05-08T10:02:00.002-04:002009-05-08T10:03:47.817-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comIt’s no mere accounting blunder that Social Security cannot fund the long retirements of the baby boom generation. It’s no mere regulatory glitch that these same retiring boomers will not be able to...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-in-security.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-45019478834300569992009-05-01T09:10:00.001-04:002009-05-01T19:12:53.505-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comJonathan's dad called a couple of days ago and told us this story: He was in the house when Jonathan's mother started hollering something incoherent from the garage. He dashed out to see what was...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-fun-wth-garage-doors.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-78313274139156297252009-04-24T10:16:00.004-04:002009-04-24T10:30:03.435-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comTo get the next one, you first need to have seen Carrie Underwood's "Jesus Take the Wheel"--a song whose sentiment I appreciate, its sentimentality not so much. Tim Hawkins' take is really funny:<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-fun-tim-hawkins.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-59846904838335409162009-04-15T07:14:00.001-04:002009-04-15T07:17:06.062-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comYep, we did it. We got chickens. After three days, eight hens, and thirteen eggs, we have learned that:Isa Browns like to play outside, only dashing in to lay an egg in a nesting box now and again....<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-did-that-come-from.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-56561232538123682482009-04-14T08:50:00.000-04:002009-04-14T08:50:00.360-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comFrom Rodney Stark's Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome:In 362, when Emperor Julian launched a campaign to revive paganism, he recognized...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2007/03/gods-will.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-34403050511393042282009-04-08T10:46:00.003-04:002009-04-08T10:50:41.364-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comOur preacher (who, by the way, has started his own blog here) often teaches me something I didn't already know. Last week he mentioned that the Hebrew word hebel literally means "vapor" or "a...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/04/meaningless-meaningless-maybe-not.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-63616053377898284812009-04-06T14:11:00.004-04:002009-04-06T15:06:20.546-04:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comRecent happenings in the Witt world:1. We are attempting to convert an aging garden shed into a predator-proof chicken coop. This is more complicated than we first supposed. Jonathan is talking in...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/04/where-have-i-been.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-59028235573709412682009-02-21T18:42:00.003-05:002009-02-21T18:49:20.209-05:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.com"Something I constantly notice is that unembarrassed joy has become rarer. Joy today is increasingly saddled with moral and ideological burdens, so to speak. When someone rejoices, he is afraid of...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/02/joy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-58662093831508202652009-02-13T07:10:00.001-05:002009-02-13T07:10:00.599-05:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.com<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-poe-for-friday-13th.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-39929663822820528602009-02-12T07:06:00.000-05:002009-02-12T07:08:25.769-05:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comHe's good: Originality is not, therefore, a virtue in itself, moral or artistic; and a man who sets out to be original without both the technical ability to express something new, and (most important...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/02/dalrymple-on-beauty.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-20509654180820886222009-02-09T07:34:00.000-05:002009-02-09T07:34:01.483-05:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comPaul has up an interesting Neil Postman excerpt. In part (yes, I'm excerpting from an excerpt), it reads:...the television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/02/on-commercials-and-capitalism.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9477236.post-722030331062305942009-02-07T08:11:00.001-05:002009-02-07T08:11:00.414-05:00The Wittsnoreply@blogger.comAmy Welborn's husband, Michael Dubruiel, died Tuesday. It was unexpected; he was only fifty. He left behind one last column that you really should read.<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]http://wittingshire.blogspot.com/2009/02/opposite-of-big-lie.html