Introduction to Aristotle and Thomistic Metaphysics
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Academic - Philosophy

 

AmericanPhilosophicalAssociation**
BriefGuidetoWritingPhilosophyPapers****
BritannicaConcise***
CatholicEncyclopedia*****
DigitalLibrary(OnlineBooks)*****
Encyclopedia (1911edition)**
Exploring Plato's Dialogues *****
Facts Encyclopedia Philosophy Resources ***
Guide to Philosophy on the Internet **
Internet Classics Archive *****
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ***
Jacques Maritain, etc. *****
Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy ****
Perseus Digital Library *****
Philosophy & Ethics resource ****
Philosophy in Cyberspace (Web Directory) **

Philosophy Professor (excellent basic resources) *****
Philosophy Resource Center (The Radical Academy) *****

Radical Academy (homepage) *****
Situation Ethics (a critique) ***
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ***

Academic - Religion

Academic Info (gateway to resources) ***

Bible resources *****
Catholic Church *****
Catholic Encyclopedia *****
Christian Classics Ethereal Library *****
Full-Text Theology Journals Online ****
Guide to Early Church Documents ****
Guide to Online Sources in Medieval Spirituality ***
Jacques Maritain Center (Notre Dame U.) **

Jesus Seminar links (critical reviews)*****
Oxford Center for Faith & Culture *****
Dominican Central Documents ****

Interesting Periodicals

Crisis Magazine *****
The Door Magazine *****

Envoy Magazine ****
First Things (Journal of Religion and Public Life) *****
Ignatius Insight (Online journal of Ignatius Press) *****

The Latin Mass (A Journal of Catholic Culture) *****
New Oxford Review ****
Our Sunday Visitor ***
The Wanderer ***

Heroes

Karl Adam ****
Hilaire Belloc ****
Louis Bouyer ****

G. K. Chesterton *****
Shusaku Endo ***
The Inklings ****

Scott Hahn *****

Stanley Hauerwas *****

Thomas Howard *****
Ronald Knox ***

Peter Kreeft *****
C. S. Lewis  *****

George MacDonald ****
J. Gresham Machen (Christianity & Liberalism online) *** 
Thomas Merton ****
Doug & Karen Miller (Home schooling parents) *****
Thomas More ***

Walker Percy ***
J.R.R. Tolkien ***
Tolkien and the Birmingham Oratory
Evelyn Waugh ****
Charles Williams ***

Good Eatin' 'n' drinkin'

Local Recommendations:

   * Blosser's Top Ten Local Restaurants (Hickory and environs) *****
Beer: 
   * The Real Beer Page! ***** 
   * Beer Advocate! ****
   * America's Best Beer ***
   * Sapporo Breweries (Sapporo Japan) ***
   * World's Best Beer! (What else is there?) *****

 

Wine:
   * Sokol-Blosser Winery (Dundee, Oregon) ***
Americana:
   * Moon Pies!! *
Japanese sushi, et cetera :
   * World-Wide Sushi Restaurant Reference!! ***
   * Digital Sushi ****
   * Rolling your own sushi *****
   * The Sushi Guide ***
   * Fake Japanese Food (by Philip Blosser)
   * Sushi, Sex, and the Conundrums of Logic (P. Blosser) 
   * The Tokyo Food Page ****
Condiments:
   * Hot Sauces ****
Overseas dining and liqueurs:
   * London:
       - Kings Cross: Chop Chop Noodle Bar $ *****
      - South Kensington: Little Japan $ ****
   * Italy:
      - Brek ristoranti (Florence, Venice, Milan) -- (a review) *****
      - Italy's best liqueur: Strega (Alberti) *****

   * Czech Republic:
      - The Czech Republic's best liqueurs:
             + Becherovka
             + Absinthe
Cooking shows: 
   * Italian: La Prova del Cuoco, featuring Antonella Clerici ****

Religion

Catholic Church *****

Catholic Apologetics Links *****
Protestantism *****

LRC Catholic Newman Club **
The Vatican ****
The Coming Home Network ****
The Cardinal Ratzinger Fan Club *****
Opus Dei ****
Knights of Columbus ***
"e5 Men" (a few good MEN who "give it up" for their wives) *****
Ignatius Press ****
ZENIT ***
New Advent *****
EWTN *****
PetersNet ****
Why Catholics Can't Sing, by Thomas Day *****
The Western Uprising, by Philip Caraman, S.J. ****

Culture

Reviews of movies and books
Tango (Montreal) *****
Tango Dynamics (Argentine) *****
Charlotte Symphony ***
Carolina Opera ****
Brideshead Revisited (TV Series) *****
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) ****
Luciano Pavarotti ****
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) ***
Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) ***
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina (1525-1594) ****
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) ****
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) ***
Intercollegiate Studies Institute ****

Humor

Philosopher's Beer Drinking Song (Monty Python) *****
Japanese "Engrish" (Japanese English Bloopers) *****

Roy D. Mercer *****

Voicemail *****
Dave Barry ****
Dave Barry (Miami Herald) ****

The Dialectizer (convert English into comic dialects) *****
The Onion ****
The Door Magazine (religious satire) *****
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) ***

Papist humor:
* Catholic-Lutheran Beer Brawl !!! *****

* The Baja Men: Who Left the Dogmas Out? ***
* Indulgences ***
* Favorite Penances ***
* Guilt ***
* Top Ten Catholic Pickup Lines ****
* Top Ten Broadway Shows based on the life of Charles Taze
   Russell (Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses)

*  Pope Fiction ****
* When Harry Met Beatrix ***
* Beer and Bingo (pop-up hazard!) ***

Lutheran humor:
* The Reformation Polka *****

* Old Lutheran Sin Boldly Lager (beer) ****
* Old Lutheran Sin Boldly Lager Beer Glass ****
* Ole and Lena jokes ***
* You might be a Lutheran if . . . ***
* Luther warp gallery ****
* Lutherans get confused by revivals **

Evangelical humor:
* Wheaton College Lifts 143-Year Dance Ban! ****

News Resources

American News Sources
Foreign News Sources

 

Film reviews ***** 

Book reviews *****

 

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