Showing posts with label Center for the Study of Great Ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Center for the Study of Great Ideas. Show all posts
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Jews, Greeks and Romans - The Feast of the Epiphany -The Heart, Head and Hands of Man

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I fail to follow the Star over Bethlehem. I fail every time I fall prey to my personal monsters - arrogance, anxiety and anger. It seems tha...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Max Wesimann Happy Birthday - The Pump Room's "Most Interesting Man"

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Happy Birthday to Max Weismann*, philosopher, classicist, architect, bon vivant, raconteur, discerning pintsman, and Director of The Center ...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

Super le truc, merci! From Max Weismann - Bon Vivant & Commodore de Pump Room

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I tried this on a Blatz Tall Boy - to no avail. Vous avez soif, pas de tire bouchon mais une paire de chaussure? Parfait ! vous pouvez ouvri...
Friday, October 30, 2009

WHY MEN SHOULD NOT TAKE MESSAGES

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

God's Good Health to Max Weismann!

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Today's Mass* and all my prayerful thoughts go with my friend and mentor Philosopher Max Weismann. Max heads the Center for the Study o...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Max Weismann's Letter to Secretary Arne Duncan - Right America's Moral Compass With Great Ideas

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Secretary Arne Duncan United States Secretary of Education LBJ Education Building, Room 7W311 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 D...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Red Baiting Tribune - and that ain't all bad. 1934 Cartoon

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Given "the context" of criticism of the President, it is charming to note that now the Chicago Tribune has the full-time White Hou...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Max Weismann's Letter to George - Orwell

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Letter to George Orwell RE: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Dear George, Many of us Americans scoffed at your book when it came off the press in...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Hillel's Angels ! Would the Sun Times Editorial Board Actually DoThis? A Rhetorical Question

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A tough looking biker was riding by Lincoln Park zoo, when he saw a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabbed...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

We Have a Problem! Burr Oak Cemetery and Someone Else's Troubles

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Father Dan Mallette blesses the desecrated grounds at Burr Oak . So I asked the undertaker what it took to make him laugh/when all he ever ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Quigley and Claypool - Southern Illinois University - Early Eighties - with a Sears Catalog

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An imaginative fictive turn* of the lives of the Self-absorbed: Roosevelt University student Mike Quigley visited Forrest Claypool of Southe...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

Pentecost,Memorial Day and a Young Man's Death

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Veni, Creator Spiritus is the hymn that Terry McEldowney will sing at today's 10:30 Mass for Sacred Heart Church at 116th & Church ...
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Friday, May 01, 2009

Pooh! Swine Flu.

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

America! before MSNBC and Its Obsession with Self-Loathing

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Long before American Military would be pilloried on the nightly news, abused by the screeching of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, David Sch...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Congressman Mike Quigley Wows Washington D.C. Quigley Plans to Sleep It Off In D.C. Office!

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Rep. Barney Franks and his significant other were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door. Chairman Franks gets up and goes to th...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Max Weisman Warns! - Don't Allow Dangerous-Breed Dogs and Small Children Alone!

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Please read!!!If you are an owner of a dog that belongs to a 'dangerous breed' category and you also have a small child please take ...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

An Enchanted Encounter - from the Files of Max Weismann

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Having already downed a few power drinks , she turned around, faced him, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Listen here good loo...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Palin Responds - 'Rudolph Asked the Right Questions - Anyone from Salon or Huffpo Around Wasilla?'

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Now, that's Executive Conviction! I received a notice from Max Weismann of the Center for the Study of Great Ideas , which will soon be ...