Beer and Other Lubricants
Coincidences never cease: I start a Roman kick, and then yesterday, I run across a short blurb about Pliny the Elder beer. I haven't tried it, but I figured the picture is worth posting, especially since there'll be no BYCU this Friday. * * * * * * * As long as I'm on my Roman kick, readers can expect occasional references to classical times, like this quote from Nassim Taleb: "I surmise that everything that works in social science has to have an antecedent in the Latin (& late Helenistic) moral literature (moral sciences meant something else than they do today): Cicero, Seneca, M. Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucian, or the poets: Juvenal, Horace or the later French moralists (La Rochefoucault, Vaugenargues, La Bruyere, Chamfort, Bossuet, Montaigne even ”¦.) – we are witnessing a slow but certain degradation of wisdom." * * * * * * * Three days until Christmas. Things are hitting a fever pitch around here. I love having seven children. Stressful, yes, on many levels, but it's generally pretty cool, and the times around the holidays are flat-out great. * * * * * * * Perhaps the best quote of the day yesterday: "Ms. Behar's dismissal of children's books as less than important makes her a modern-day Eustace, the type of bully who mocks readers of fairy tales as simpletons." Link. The only thing I don't like about it is, it gives Ms. Behar too much credit. Any reference to Ms. Behar is an act of giving her too much credit. I've caught snippets of her show on occasion, and each time I'm vividly reminded of banter in a hair salon. * * * * * * * Y'all have really showed up this season at Amazon. I really appreciate it. Thanks. * * * * * * * Oddball Christmas trivia: "Most of the 20th century Christmas hits we hear this time of year were written between 1934 and 1958." Found here. * * * * * * * I do a chunk of my daily posts in the evening. Last night, we decorated Christmas cookies, so that's all I have for today.
