http://blog.kevinbasil.com Decimation & Reconstruction: a weblog Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:16:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Morning Coffee: A "Get to Know You" Quiz Four places I go over and over Work church Panera The Taphouse Four people who encouraged my faith along the way Father Ignatius Smith, OFM Fr David Rucker Fr Joseph Gibson Clifford Davis Four of my favorite foods steak potato soup cream of mushroom soup beef stroganoff Four places I would rather be right now Home (that's Nicholasville, y'all) Indianapolis Boston SVOTS Four ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/04/17/morning-coffees-get-to-know-you-quiz/ DR. JOHNSON declared a tavern seat “the throne of human felicity.” The Frenchman Hilaire Belloc, who spent his life in England, said: “When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves. For you will have lost the last of England.” ... In Oxford, which has some pubs — like the Bear, ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/04/13/an-oxford-pub-crawl-through-history/ The first week of Lent (called "the Great Fast" in the Byzantine rite) always reminds me of the doctrine of creation and the various discussions that spring from it, because our scripture readings are from the beginning of Genesis (along with the opening of the Prophet Isaiah and the Proverbs ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/03/15/from-non-existence-you-called-us-into-being/ I have already indicated that I will probably vote for Ron Paul, even if I write his name in on the absentee ballot with my own blood. So, having said that, let me make it clear that this article is not about support for Senator Obama. It's about being sane ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/03/10/obama-and-islam/ When I was in "A" school, I really wanted to be on one of these, the best of both worlds of submarine life: the large, spacious living of a Trident submarine with the missions and port calls (we all hoped) of an attack submarine. The Ohio is the first of a ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/03/06/new-us-subs-trade-nukes-for-seals/ Remember the destruction by the Taliban of irreplaceable Buddhist statues? Raising an outcry about that (which I did, because it was the right thing to do) was hip. Raising an outcry about the destruction of churches hundreds of years old is apparently not as hip. There is little that we can ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/02/18/destruction-of-serbian-church/ Reason Magazine - Who Killed Captain Video? "This is the golden age of television." This essay, extolling the virtue of free markets in broadcasting, with a case study in government stifling of the same, is a valuable lesson. http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/01/31/who-killed-captain-video/ "If your reading of the Bible inspires you to help the poor, that is passionate religious commitment. If it leads you to denounce homosexuality, you are a fundamentalist. In the modern U.S. context, the term "evangelical" is well on the way to acquiring such connotations, as a label for intolerant ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/01/30/evangelical-is-the-new-fundamentalist/ This video assumes that you've seen the Tom Cruise Scientology video that escaped into the wild. http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2008/01/27/cruise-spoofology/ An Open Letter to Orthodox Christians, on Behalf of Ron Paul by Clark Carlton Dear Brothers and Sisters: The 2008 US presidential election is almost a year and a half away, and yet the various campaigns are in full swing. With states vying to move the primary season up into late 2007, it ... http://blog.kevinbasil.com/2007/12/31/clark-carlton-on-presidential-candidate-ron-paul/