Work

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them."

--- Ann Landers

GKC on madmen

Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ G.K. Chesterton

The people

the fabled East European parliament that, realizing it had lost popular favor but unwilling to dissolve itself and call new elections, resolved instead to dissolve the people.

Excuse, accuse

'Qui excusat non accusat,'”

China - the new model

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman expressed his admiration for the Chinese authoritarian regime, lauding it as "a reasonably enlightened group of people" that can, without any checks or balances, impose whatever policies it sees fit "to move a society forward in the 21st century."

Notre Dame

Notre Dame has become more of a brand and less of a community,

Abp Chaput

sin is real, and men and women can be corrupted by power and prosperity