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Selections from “Usury”

begun: 2007 Oct 09, 20:31 Tue | updated: 2007 Oct 09 18:31 | tags: ,

“The island upon which New York stands was bought from the Indians for the value of twenty-four dollars by Peter Minuits in 1626. Yet, if the purchaser had put his twenty-four dollars at interest, where he could have added it to the principal at the rate of seven per cent., the accumulation would now exceed the total value of the entire city and county of New York.”

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Distributism, as defined in G.K.’s Weekly

begun: 2007 Sep 05, 20:20 Wed | updated: 2007 Sep 05 18:20 | tags: ,

What is Distributism? So many definitions have been given that the question ought to be a party game, and I myself have been guilty. But I’ve just found that Chesterton published a marvelously succinct definition himself in the pages of his own newspaper.

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Calling Boswell’s Bluff

begun: 2007 Jul 30, 22:06 Mon | updated: 2007 Jul 30 20:06 | tags:

Boswell seems to have been somehow an adoring fan, drinking buddy, conversational contender, and needy friend all rolled into one. After taking his part in years and years and pages and pages of linguistic fireworks at Johnson’s side, we find a sudden attack of the teenage girl.

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Gutenberg Pick: The Glugs of Gosh

begun: 2007 Apr 21, 01:36 Sat | updated: 2007 Apr 20 23:36 | tags: , ,

The similarity to Seuss floored me. I dimly realized there might be a whole heritage of epic comic verse lurking out there. Yet even this epiphany was eclipsed as the Glugs suddenly turned horribly familiar.

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The Complicity of Jobs

begun: 2007 Mar 31, 15:33 Sat | updated: 2007 Mar 31 13:33 | tags: ,

Curtis White: “What the environmental movement is not very good at is acknowledging that something in the very fabric of our daily life is deeply anti-nature as well as anti-human…Perhaps the most powerful way in which we conspire against ourselves is the simple fact that we have jobs.”

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On the Last Day of Christmas

begun: 2007 Jan 09, 03:10 Tue | updated: 2007 Jan 09 01:10 | tags: ,

What? Don’t tell me you haven’t been celebrating this whole time? Must be one of our best-kept secrets: the Christmas *season.*

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Ancient Athens and America

begun: 2006 Aug 10, 23:21 Thu | updated: 2006 Aug 10 21:21 | tags:

She orders the vanquished to tear down their city walls, imposes taxes–and claims to be a democracy.

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Love Not Me For Comely Grace

begun: 2006 May 12, 20:55 Fri | updated: 2006 May 12 18:55 | tags: ,

Except I have to call it verse. The word poetry has somehow been permanently fused with whiny guys with 70s-style straight hair.

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As Large as Life in Dickens

begun: 2005 Dec 22, 14:10 Thu | updated: 2005 Dec 22 12:10 | tags:

The passion behind all his work was joy, and the final touch of exaggeration is the absolute necessity of the great literature of joy.

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The Duel of the Door

begun: 2004 Dec 11, 00:00 Sat | updated: 2004 Dec 10 22:00 | tags: , ,

So back when women were oppressed, we guys had to open the door for any one of them. Now, we only do it if she’s our boss or we’re selling her something.

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Thomas Jefferson, Distributist

begun: 2004 May 27, 00:00 Thu | updated: 2004 May 26 22:00 | tags: ,

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometric progression as they rise. –Thomas Jefferson

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