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 Apology (For Eleanor Rogers Cox) by Joyce Kilmer  For blows on the fort of evil  That never shows a breach, For terrible life-long races  T...

 Scott at "Astral Codex Ten" recently had a skeptically tending discussion of taste (in the good taste and bad taste sense), Frien...

  Don McLean, "Oh My, What a Shame".

 * Matthew Minerd, The Providential Structuring of Humanity through the Spiritual Soul's Relation to the Body , at "To Be a Thomist...

 Today is the feast of St. Yanah ibn Sarjun, more commonly known as St. John Damascene, Doctor of the Church, who was sometimes nicknamed Ch...

 As Winds That Blow Against a Star (For Aline) by Joyce Kilmer  Now by what whim of wanton chance  Do radiant eyes know sombre days? And fee...

 A propensity to wanton destruction of what is beautiful in inanimate nature (spiritus destructionis) is opposed to a human being's duty...