Imagine being known to history as "Charles the Bald"
14.06.2025 03:07
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Imagine being known to history as "Charles the Bald"
Mine would be "I'm not sure what you're objecting to. Aside from the jalapenos."
Honestly? 10/10 would read that book.
We should bring back yelling "Hwæt!" at the beginning of our speeches.
Also, not medieval Europe but How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman.
And I'm re-reading the Dresden Files.
No hard plans to get these b/c I'm poor but I would like to get my hands on Essays Analytic and Anglican from Eerdmans and The Bible and Farm Animal Welfare from cascade.
Very little frontlist or upcoming but I've got a thick stack of thick books about medieval Europe that I'm looking forward to working through.
Crusaders-Dan Jones
Henry V-Dan Jones
Oathbreakers-David Perry & Matthew Gabriele
Children of Ash and Elm-Neil Price
The Last Viking-Don Holloway
Gulf of America next?
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God
put all things in subjection under your Christ,
Solitudinem facit, pacem appellat
How long, Donald, will you abuse our patience?
RIP Samuel Escobar (1934-2025) Here he is 50 years ago:
In most folklore traditions, foxes are pretty universally portrayed as tricksters or otherwise dishonest. I think fox is communicating something by how they've named themselves and I'm not convinced is unintentional.
There's an open question of whether Leo X actually believed in God or just sought out the papacy for the power and influence it would afford him. He was a Medici and his family bought the office for him.
I don't even know where to start with Alexander VI...
It's giving Alexander VI and Leo X.
Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day, and rise with him to newness of life
A great many things keep happening. Some good. Some bad.
Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward pg 1
Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward pg 2
V. From our enemies defend us, O Christ;
The energy usage is what pushed me from merely refraining from using AI to being more of a Luddite, in the true historical sense, campaigning against it.
Good Lord deliver us
I'm in such deep grief over it. I did my undergrad here before that shut down and I'm in the third year of graduate work. Thankfully I'm going to be able to finish my MDiv before they shut the campus down but I'm doing a concurrent MA that I'll have to finish elsewhere because I won't do it remote.
For absolutely no reason at all I find myself thinking a lot about Lewis's marvelous essay Learning in Wartime a lot these days.
If St. Augustine was here today, he would probably have an aneurysm at the fact that some people who profess to share his faith accumulate for the sake of accumulation.
174k from our taxes I should say. Who knows how much they're making from lobbyists behind closed doors? Or from their investments for that matter?
Greed. These people make 174k/year. Same thing that keeps old dudes like warren buffet keyed into the investment landscape.
Evergreen.
Start? As far as I'm concerned, that's been his shem* for a long time now.
*Meaning this in the fullness of its Hebrew meaning. Both what he is called and what his reputation is.
Reminder that Smaug, literally the embodiment of greed in the Hobbit, has an estimated net worth of $62 billion. If he were real, that would place him as the 25th richest person in the world. There are 24 people who are greedier than the literal embodiment of greed.
