Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It appears he has given again a few suggestions to Ann Althouse. See "But keep going, Ann. Debunk them all. With facts, not spin." I love this comment "Andrew Sullivan is employed to write for The Atlantic, a publication which was founded by and once published such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and James...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The first issue was published 54 years ago today by William F. Buckley. I only discovered it 30 years ago when I came to the USA. Of course in those days it was only available on dead trees. Nowadays it's online and we all take it for granted. From Buckley's Mission Statement in that first issue on November 19th, 1955 : Let's face it: Unlike Vienna, it seems altogether possible that did NATIONAL REVIEW...
Moritz Legal Information Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Reading historical documents can be pretty interesting, but what about hearing historical speeches? Here is a compliation of quite a few historical audio recordings, including selections from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Winston Churchill.From Concurring Opinions
Dewey's Treehouse (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
P is for today's schooltime Poem: "The Chambered Nautilus," by Oliver Wendell Holmes . "This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sail the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair...."
Running a hospital (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Rob Velella (the one on the left) wanted to commemorate the 200th birthday of Oliver Wendell Holmes, and so he wrote a one-act play called "At the Saturday Club." The Club, which still exists today, was founded in 1855 and was an informal gathering of the great writers and thinkers of that age. They met at Boston's Parker House for "extravagant meals and even more extravagant conversations."...
Healing Philosophy (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. Rajneesh Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. William Makepeace Thackeray God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. Jewish proverb A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Veteran's Day Quotes are not hard to come by, but here's a compilation of some of the best and most famous in one place. "Freedom is never free." -Author Unknown "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" -Maya Angelou "When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?" -George Canning "Courage is almost a contradiction in...
This14U (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams . Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire - William Yeats . The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been - Alan Ashley-Pitt . What is a weed? A weed is a...
A trainwreck in Maxwell (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Want to silence the Eagle of the Sea to paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes. These Baahstuhhnn Yankee Yuppies want the cannon salutes to the morning and evening colors stopped because it 'bothers' them. That is a Naval tradition that goes back to before America was even a colony under Britain. Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Few Supreme Court justices have been more widely praised for the quality of their writing than Progressive hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who sat on the Court from 1902 to 1932. Yet as author and arts critic Terry Teachout recently pointed out, while Holmes may be "the only American jurist whose opinions are by way of being great literature," the "beauty of his style sometimes lent...
Kurt X. Metzmeier's blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Last year I took a class at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft on creating shrines for el dia de los muertos , traditionally celebrated November 2 and 3 in Mexico and parts of the U.S. The class was taught by my friend Suzanne Martino , a gifted assemblage artist. I opted for whimsy over sentiment, celebrating the beloved White Castle on Bardstown Road whose closing in 1988 put a headstone on my...
Freakonomics (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week. Marc Lange asked: I have seen something like this quote attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes: "In English law, everything...
m-cause (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Shawn Seipler has an inspirational story. A couple of years ago, Shawn was looking for new business opportunities in the “red-hot” [...]
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Prologue: Justice Holmes - Father of the Modern First Amendment is an essay by Ronald K. L. Collins, First Amendment Center. The prologue introduces 'The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle & Reader' - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters & Other Writings by & About Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2010).Collins' abstract...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I had by chance just unearthed a reference to Anthony Minghella's presence at the 2006 Film Society of the Year awards before reading your report ( Brown to back national film centre with £45m fund , 16 October). In his 2006 speech he was more concerned with "opportunities around the country for people to see great cinema", but as you recall he was equally passionate about establishing...
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