Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


"Very fun." -- J. Bottum, Editor, FIRST THINGS

"Too modest" -- Elinor Dashwood

"Perhaps the wisest man on the Web" -- Henry Dieterich

"Hat tip: me (but really Cacciaguida)" -- Diana Feygin, Editor, THE YALE FREE PRESS

"You are my sire. You give me confidence to speak. You raise my heart so high that I am no more I." -- Dante

"Fabulous!"-- Warlock D.J. Prod of Didsbury

Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Saturday, September 16, 2006
 
The Harry Potter stories are the most popular books in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre's library, the Pentagon has revealed.
Yes, in fact they've taken to writing their own: Harry Potter and the Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Martyr of Taliban, Harry Potter and the Carry-On Luggage of Fire, Harry Potter and the Chamber of an Alternative Set of Procedures, Harry Potter and the Border Near Phoenix (that one's for you, Ed the Roman!), Harry Potter and the Red-Blood Pope....