1. Eating habits and the modern world … a graph.
2. Banned, but the real question might be is this newsworthy?
3. Questioning the Trek fanaticism (Star not bike).
4. Spy vs Spy, a book.
5. Pseudonym a narrative.
6. Another book, volume 4 of a Marginal Jew noted.
7. Contra the Shack.
8. From the Desert Fathers a quote. Deer eat reptiles?
9. Reality trumps data? Huh?
10. How long will it take?
11. A price of non-repentance.
12. Revision … which prompted me to consider the non-revisional aspects of blogging.
13. Whom do you follow?
14. Insight on faction in a 100 day reflection.
15. A hidden cost to biofuel.
16. Human rights as a weapon.
17. Some reflections on humility.
18. More dreck for the left to attempt  (vainly?) to spin in a positive light.
19. Tales of a father.
20. From the (real) depression.

1. Geek chic? (Just say no?)
2. Not what the typical separation of church/state has in mind.
3. Experience and dogma.
4. Moooo(re) fun.
5. A clarification on the one state solution.
6. Progress or not.
7. Running away, not to say that’s a bad thing.
8. Rome and Kirill.
9. Wisdom from Aleksandr on violence.
10. Some words from St. Cyril.
11. Heh.
12. For my gymnastically inclined daughter … and lover of pizza.
13. At least there was no mention of John Galt.
14. Wrightspeak.
15. Bells.
16. Contra High Noon.
17. A Plantinga paper noted.
18. Biking in circles in Estonia.
19. Apparently the liberal orthodoxy doesn’t cotton to Mr Souter in retrospect either.
20. The Gospel and property rights.

1. Mr Adler with some advice for the GOP.
2. On IQ.
3. The Church is not full of good people … it is full of people like me.
4. Locating the not-so-good arguments on one side of the Catholic-Protestant debate, of which I’ll admit to being on the sidelines (HT: Michele McGinty)
5. City tracker.
6. From St. Gregory, some imaginative (daring?) words.
7. A game of pigs and men.
8. Not having recursion doesn’t make programming easier, why is it assumed that language is different?
9. Mr Spector it seems, has a race problem.
10. Doing the deed.
11. A question posed.
12. The Samaritan impulse.
13. Spring and the hearts of men (and women).
14. From the Ms Palin expensive clothing file.
15. “Take that cup from me”  … said a Washington lawyer.
16. Hmmm.
17. An interpretation of declining Christian demographics.

1. Heh.
2. Brandon answers yesterday’s question.
3. Art that will move you.
4. A review.
5. Travel?
6. From a Vespers hymn.
7. Continuing the art/beauty theme for today, ring tones.
8. From the “not making any sense” side of the left. All the soldiers did in fact get good treatment and attacks by terrorists and non-uniformed personnel is not likely at all connected with our treatment of terrorists in Iraq. There are good arguments against using torture … this just isn’t one of them.
9. So … Mr Obama’s policies have already (?!) created 150k jobs. I think a stronger and stronger case can be made for the Innumeracy of our President.
10. Riding Gila.
11. Dude, just say “Yo!”.
12. Retaining our humanity.
13. Microcosm, macrocosm and man.
14. A decision.
15. The first part problem with a Churchillian quote by Obama … it’s a fabrication. The second part of the problem is that some SS officers were in fact tortured.
16. “I think we are losing ground” … thanks Mr Obama.

1. Torture and the choice put plainly.
2. Puritanism examined.
3. A new Christian blog aggregator … and hobbity news.
4. More on why consequentialist arguments about torture don’t work (or are dishonest).
5. Plugging a magazine.
6. I liked the book a lot too.
7. Fact checking Mr Obama.
8. Two race reports … by the racers from Gila. Women’s and men’s plus some pro-racer pre-race hijinks from Garmin at the Tour of California.
9. Two men, Locke and Berkeley and a crucial question.
10. A message in a bottle from a hell on earth.
11. But … will it work better.
12. Mr Obama’s budget innumeracy in perspective.
13. The Democrats expressed faux outrage at the price of Ms Pelosi’s clothes in the campaign. We await a repeat of that outrage at this price tag.

1. Jet lag, and rat research.
2. Marxist paranoia … begging the question if the flue requires close contact of human, avian, and porcine populations … where are the birds and people in that particular scenario?
3. If your choices however historically have proven good … why does it matter that your explanation is not necessarily right.
4. Ancient gadgetry.
5. Yes, I think it shows the artist is “an idiot” too … although idiot might not be my first choice of terminology. How about blinkered fool or should the term “pander” get in their somewhere.
6. Peace?
7. Macrina suggests her next close reading project.
8. Will retractions and corrections fly in a flurry … or not? And if not why not?
9. On the obscenity in broadcasting judgement. I think in discussions what is being missed is that the SCOTUS doesn’t (rightly) adjudicate on what is ethical or moral but if the law penned by Congress and the action in question are Constitutional.
10. Eudaimonia read wrongly or at least a very non-Aristotelian take on pursuit of happiness.
11. Mr Bush and Mr Obama, two (Jacobin) birds of a feather?
12. Manliness matters.
13. Torture and pacifism conjoined.
14. History repeats.
15. A possible shift, explanations requested.
16. A conversation which should embarrass liberals.
17. What separates the casual user from the addict on the bike, I don’t think I ever get on a bike without checking tire pressure first.
18. A “profuse” apology? or defining apology down.
19. Please. If “everyone” makes new music … then that new music will suck. A great percentage of new music by people with training and talent sucks … just think if people without training or talent start making music. Oh, joy.
20. Asceticism and American piety.

1. I think Origen noted that feature in Scripture just a few years earlier (that is the idea that there are “blue parakeet verses”, which cause you to stumble so that you might pay closer attention).
2. Faith and unbelief … from a modern Saint.
3. A new novel and the battle between liberal and conservative Catholics.
4. Plans of mice, men, and God.
5. A sticking point in the torture debate.
6. Considering autism … more here. All of this skirts the important question of how to love your neighbor especially when your neighbor is disordered.
7. Those touting the marginal benefits of universal health insurance … are innumerate? (one might also recall that there are 15,000 late term abortions per year of which over half are not for reasons of health of mother or child).
8. Egypt and Darfur.
9. Roman catacombs in Bethlehem.
10. Timing issues at the Globe.
11. Praising that cup of joe.
12. What passes for logic on the left … remains however “high test hokum.”
13. Churches talk on high level backchannels.
14. Two books recommended.
15. Odd phrasing in the context of the flu.
16. Turkey is touted as the prime example of a secular Muslim state … but is there a better example?
17. A beautiful bride … and the meaning of marriage and mortality.

1. Well, if you think the US press is wildly inaccurate, we’re not alone.
2. That seems impractical.
3. On health care.
4. On Mr Brown’s book.
5. The fate of an ordinary Obama supporter.
6. Will the Obama administration, the Press, and Congress manage to push the fiction that the “torture” imbroglio was not bi-partisan?
7. Another day, another broken campaign promise … a pattern emerges?
8. Politics, faith and wandering.
9. Ghandi’s gun, heh.
10. Of knowledge and myth.
11. Vermin or ermin?
12. Doubt and Christ.
13. Stop chasing happiness? Only a problem, I think, if you have a modern shallow understanding of the word happiness.
14. Of horological artisans and their work.
15. Piracy as political AIDS.
16. Fascism today.
17. Men and the wind.
18. Why no news stories?
19. Tales from a tea party.

1. Mr Obama the bigot? Well, yes but he’s a hopey-changey bigot and that makes all the difference, just like Mr Clinton the sexist was a sexist of the right sort so it didn’t matter.
2. That little universe.
3. Debates and changes of perception.
4. The big race Sunday. Three background stories, one, two, and three. I find that of my purchased recordings of classics, the L-B-L tops the list which means by some measure it is my favorite of the classics to watch.
5. A interesting new website noted.
6. A film noted. Another one here.
7. Considering public education.
8. A new Philokalia translation? And a note “reading is not practice.” … Rats. 😉
9. Pakistan and the Taliban.
10. A Orthodox response to a Lutheran question.
11. Ms Pelosi and the waterboarding issue.
12. Dya think?
13. That “stupid book” as an opportunity.
14. The real villain behind WWII … and he got away with it.
15. More innumeracy in the White House.
16. Low-brow? Well, I guess I’ll have to blog about my symphony experiences more often.
17. UPS and modeling faith.
18. It’s not the thought that counts.
19. God and the quantum universe.

1. Linking to links.
2. Some thoughts on torture.
3. Beauty and nature.
4. Profit in the business world (re)considered.
5. Technology?
6. Boris?
7. Dork?
8. On the Caprica pilot.
9. Scent.
10. Estimating neuron counts in the beltway.
11. Upheaval?
12. Or is it time to close the schools?
13. Changes at First Things.
14. The Ikon screen or Iconostasis considered.
15. Hope and change apparently does not include more honesty in government, less?
16. Being in the right place at the right time.
17. An amateur rides the Huy.
18. Pals.

Live (blogged sort of) coverage of the 73rd La Flèche Wallonne can be found here. A preview here.

1. A death of a CFO.
2. Blood and a gift.
3. A film for fun.
4. For Earth day, a modest proposal.
5. Stimulus (HT: Carl Olson)
6. A sixth century icon from Mount Athos.
7. A carnival asks for submissions.
8. On the rhetorical phrase, “Of Course”.
9. The first tremors of the current economic downturn was the collapse of the housing bubble … how’s that housing situation look now?
10. Hate? Hate is not the first thought comes to my mind. Actually it’s not even on the list.
11. Fasting, end of the fast, and the convert.
12. Dickens re-imagined and the POTUS.
13. The other side of waterboarding prosecutions.
14. Archaeology and Aegypt.
15. Espionage.
16. On prayer and footprints.
17. Verse.
18. On hope.
19. From the left on waterboarding and interrogation.
20. Taking acting seriously.

1. Our (apparently innumerate) President’s budget cuts.
2. Genesis. Genealogy and charts.
3. St. Cyril on Isaiah.
4. Intrinsically Anti-Semitic theology noted.
5. Kids and fire.
6. Market (not gov’mint fiat).
7. A doorknob.
8. A return to the fold and the faith.
9. Not liking The Shack so much.
10. HRM for swimmers.
11. Not liking Mr Obama … but still of the mind that Mr McCain would have been worse (and perhaps forgetting the benefits of gridlock regarding economic response).
12. A quote on carbon.
13. A thousand words on the prosperity gospel.
14. Training and life.
15. Faith and thought.
16. Faith and divorce … three myths.
17. Of God and Caesar.
18. An impressive bedroom floor booklist.
19. In my youth, B-school literary fancies ran to the Book of Five Rings today a more regrettable choice is apparently popular.
20. Planned Parenthood covering more crime.
21. Dance.

1. Some Paschal Links from the East: A Dachau icon, four prison camp liturgies recalled, Liturgy pictures from the seminary, from Esteban, a song, the homily preached in every Orthodox parish on Pascha, and symbolism at the table (in which I wonder how our annual inclusion of White Castle sliders figures in that idea),
2. Live and word and a Darwinian fable.
3. Evolution and snake oil.
4. Information and habit in Baghdad.
5. On high speed passenger rail.
6. Heh.
7. Mr Wilders.
8. Universal health care in which “and a pony” is not the best remark … but honestly speaking I’ve yet to hear a reasoned answer to my rejoinder that health care requires rationing … and why is “ability to pay” not the fairest method of doing the rationing?
9. The left’s Ms Coulter.
10. Verse.
11. One big factor “keeping the Black man down” and likely one which will not help the “white man” in the future.
12. Eight years.
13. A tale (and an amazing book) from the gulag.
14. Patristics resources.

1. Of light and customs in the East.
2. Praise of hypocrisy?
3. A book reviewed (and a short interview with the author).
4. I’m in the seventh week of the Lenten fast, like bacon, and that doesn’t look remotely appetizing.
5. Size … and history.
6. Polical philosophy, economics, and turf wars.
7. Wheden and FOX.
8. In order to marry my little girl ….
9. Why … did He rise?
10. Speaking of hypocrisy.
11. Well perhaps hypocrisy isn’t the right word here … but “I’ve participated in such protests before” but your reasons don’t meet my standards so you’re protest is clearly motivated by greed alone is really ill considered.
12. “Stress tests”
13. More on Tuesday Matins service on the Harlot and the Disciple.
14. Why tea parties? One explanation.
15. Well, I don’t think it’s clear that their response is religiously motivated so perhaps Jihad is the wrong term.

1. Tea Party and maps … how will the MSM cover this? Compare to, say, Ms Sheehan and consider if bias perhaps a relevant question?
2. Sober thoughts on piracy.
3. Some Easter reflections.
4. Charismatic vs Cessastionism … some thoughts.
5. On Mr Obama’s “yet another plan”, this time to rid the world of nuclear weaponry, and no mention (in the plan) of providing everyone with ponies either.
6. A book and a movie. And … for my two cents, always always read Ms Penman’s writing.
7. A chatty Fed?
8. A bad analogy from our President.
9. To a good man.
10. Technology and a great ride.
11. Hmmmm (Ouch).
12. Contra Twitter.
13. Beauty and action.
14. From one unimpressed by the Byzantine rites.
15. A link roundup for an excellent and very detailed series/summary of Zizioulas fascinating Being as Communion.
16. When you read that Arctic ice diminished somewhat this winter … that should be put in context with the Antarctic advance.
17. A health care question.
18. The Bridegroom (icon).