There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity.

When you walk into a Starbucks, you have to determine what kind it is. Coffee shop or green and white-themed Greyhound station that serves coffee.

“There’s a lot to object to about Taylor Swift. Her music is shallow, her mind is weak, her feelings are trite and vacuous. Her taste in men and the rate at which she burns through them suggest she is both boring and easily bored. And her public persona strikes me as rather fake even for a celebrity. However, it’s not for any of these reasons that I don’t allow my daughters to listen to her music. They listen to David Bowie, Tom Petty, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, and The Rolling Stones, all of whom might be judged shallow and trite when compared with the likes of Bach or even Puccini. The reason I don’t let my daughters listen to Taylor Swift is that she’s really, really popular.”

-from my new blog home at The Classical Teaching Institute

Among the better deals, a massive collection of good glassware: glencairn glasses, coupe glasses, martini glasses, nine champagne flutes.

Just a dollar each. If you’ve ever been to a party or dinner at our place, stop by and pick up a memento.

All that holds me back from barbarism-

this Criterion Channel subscription

I never use

My daughters loved her.

Our Theology Curriculum

1991: Augustine’s Confessions

1992: Augustine’s Confessions

1993: Augustine’s Confessions

1994: Augustine’s Confessions

1995: Augustine’s Confessions

1996: Augustine’s Confessions

1997: Augustine’s Confessions

1998: Augustine’s Confessions

1999: Augustine’s Confessions

2000: Augustine’s Confessions

2001: Augustine’s Confessions

2002: Augustine’s Confessions

2003: Augustine’s Confessions

2004: Augustine’s Confessions

2005: Augustine’s Confessions

2006: Augustine’s Confessions

2007: Augustine’s Confessions

2008: Augustine’s Confessions

2009: Augustine’s Confessions

2010: Augustine’s Confessions

2011: Augustine’s Confessions

2012: Augustine’s Confessions

2013: Augustine’s Confessions

2014: Augustine’s Confessions

2015: Augustine’s Confessions

2016: Augustine’s Confessions

2017: Augustine’s Confessions

2018: Augustine’s Confessions

2019: Augustine’s Confessions

2020: Augustine’s Confessions

2021: Augustine’s Confessions

2022: Augustine’s Confessions

2023: Augustine’s Confessions

2024: Augustine’s Confessions

2025: “This new Francis Chan book that’s actually pretty mind-blowing.”

2026: The Ren & Stimpy Show

Most superhero movies are predicated on the idea that some people are born special or born interesting. Modern people gladly identify with this idea because they are lazy and hate the idea of making themselves worthy of something higher, nobler.