Catholic Exchange has one of my favorite articles up this morning. "Three Degrees of the Sporting Life."
I am glutton and gluttony is me.
I know, gluttony is one of the deadly sins. Gluttony and its sibling sins (lust, avarice, watching Jerry Springer) lead to other sins.
But that didn't stop me when my parents handed down their old big-screen TV. I plopped it in my basement... a full eleven inches from my 28-inch TV. Both are hooked up to cable. Both receive Fox Sports, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, TNT, and every other sports cable channel except the NFL Network. Both are situated within fifty feet of my beer refrigerator and a bathroom. . . .
It first ran in Catholic Men's Quarterly. I'll be discussing it this evening on Sirius Radio, Channel 159 Entertainment, at 4:20, on Lino Rulli's show "The Catholic Guy." My drinking club subscribes to Sirius, and the manager (a friend of mine, and not just because he controls five tap handles) says he's going to tune it in. I might have to stroll out afterwards and see how I did.
The ACLU continues to take the high road: "A high school art teacher has hired the ACLU to challenge his firing after a video of him moonlighting as a "butt-printing artist" was widely circulated among his high school students."
So much for God and country, at least during some in-flight showings of the Oscar-nominated movie "The Queen." That's because all mentions of God are bleeped out of a version of the film given to some commercial airlines.
Nope, it's not a Never Be Christian broadcast thing. It's just a rookie censor who didn't understand the rules. Pretty funny, though.
March to Life video, sent to me by a Dominican Friar. Kinda neat. The site has other neat stuff, too.
Brews You Can Use
I've railed against dog people. Now, it's time to rail against dog alkies:
50 beers to drink before you die. I endorse his number one selection: Anchor Steam. Good stuff. I haven't drank most of the others, but I dig some of the names: Shakespeare Stout, Skullsplitter, Arrogant Bastard.
The world's northernmost bar. Looks pretty cool, though dark.
Conversation fodder for tonight: Budweiser is looking to use funny ads during the Super Bowl, much like its offspring Bud Lite. Both beers are no good, but Bud Lite has some of the best commercials known to man.
HERETIC! May your genitals get chewed off by ravenous mice!
John Bebow, executive director of the Center for Michigan, a self-styled centrist think tank in Ann Arbor, says raising the beer tax should be an option to address the state's looming budget deficit. He suggests boosting the tax on a 12-ounce package 10 cents, a pretty sizable boost.
