Because The Blog from the Core simply can't cover everything. Noteworthy entries @ Lead and Gold, ut unum sint, Insight Scoop, Daly Thoughts, The Corner, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Anchor Rising, Pontifications, Church....

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. Space invaders by Tim de Lisle @ The Guardian (ht): As the world braces itself for....

Random Poetry List XXXVI I passed a wood of beech trees yesterday And I am shaken with its beauty yet. Why should my breath catch and my eyes be wet....

By Rightwingsparkle at Rightwingsparkle: It was the fall of 1976 when Sarah met him. It was at the local library of all places. A place she would go to escape....

Coalition for Darfur IX The Attention it Deserves. + + + + + The Coalition for Darfur has two goals: to get bloggers writing about Darfur and to raise money....

Random Poetry List XXXV Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a....

At DeoOmnisGloria.com this week.

A handful of interesting, informative, and insightful articles. News, editorials, columns, essays, et al. "I Punched Saddam in the Mouth" by Chad Garrison @ Riverfront Times (ht): In a south-city....

Random Poetry List XXXIV O world beneath the mother's wing,    Secure from harm, The heart so near the sheltered thing    To keep it warm! No longer needed now the light....

Three poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Ad Mariam When a sister, born for each strong month-brother,    Spring's one daughter, the sweet child May, Lies in the breast of the young....