Wise Words: Winston Churchill

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

Wise Words: Dom Gregory Dix

"The opposite of faith is not doubt; it is personal opinion."

Eleventary Garden: 3rd Look

J.C. Ryle's Lament

"There is no duty in religion so neglected as private prayer."

11 minutes of Hem

Eleventary Garden: 2nd Look

Sir Richard Steele on Reading

“Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body.”

London Favorites

1. Waterstone’s
2. Pret a Manger
3. Stanford’s
4. Wagamama’s
5. Hatchard’s
6. George Trumper’s
7. W.H. Smith
8. West Corwall Pasty
9. Cecil Court
10. Neil’s Yard
11. Southwark Market

Heaven

"I've always imagined that Heaven would be a library." Jorge Borges

Statistics

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." --Mark Twain

An Eleventary Garden

So Says Alexandre Dumas

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."

Essential Run Gear

1. Brooks Adrenaline GTS 8
2. PowerStep Insoles
3. DeFeet Cush Lo
4. RaceReady LD Sixer Shorts
5. RaceReady CoolMax Alta-T
6. Headsweats Cap
7. Brooks ShoePocket
8. Brooks Podium Vest
9. BodyGlide
10. RunKeeper iPod and DailyMile
11. Gatorade Rain

Ah, Quotations!

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Time

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time." Theodore Roosevelt

Away Again

"It is a dangerous business going out your front door." Tolkien

Amplitude

"Ample ability is of little account without ample opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte

Worst Case Scenario

1. Asking Hillary to steer foreign policy at State
2. Reversing Mexico City
3. Requiring tax funding for abortion-harvested stem cells
4. Boosting abortion businesses with a $457 million stimulus package
5. Picking Dawn Johnsen, NARAL shill, for Assistant Attorney General
6. Nominating Tim Kaine for DNC
7. Tapping Michael Schiavo attorney, Thomas Perrelli for Justice
8. Choosing James Steinberg for Deputy Secretary of State
9. Picking David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General
10. Going on a $410 billion porkalooza spending spree
11. Nominating Kathleen Sebelius for HHS

The Public Square

If worldlings desecrate the holy, then let Christians consecrate the secular.

His Story

"Every Christian ought to be a good historian." Caleb Archibald Evans