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# Happy Labor Day: A Few Random Things
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/29083/
- Published: 2013-09-02T06:56:47.000Z
- Updated: 2013-09-02T06:56:47.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, #wpChunk

Well, another summer gone. I held high hopes for this summer: it might be the last one with all my kids home. It didn't go poorly, but I was absolutely swamped at the office, which made it inordinately difficult to enjoy the season.

I like to work, and I enjoy most of my clients, so I count my blessings, but I definitively would've preferred more leisure these last couple of months.

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There are certain little things I can't seem to remember. It's been that way my entire adult life. One of them: Does one capitalize the seasons? The answer is "no." Seasons are lower-case. Rule 7.74\. Unless they are personified: "Then Spring--with her warm showers--arrived." Rule 7.32.

Those are Rules from *The Chicago Manual of Style*, 14th Edition. It's the guide I used when editing *Gilbert Magazine* and, though it is a magnificent tome, the only one I'll ever buy. If they change the Rules, I'll have to keep up with them via the Web.

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The meddlesome threesome--Richard Durbin of Illinois, Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut--are at it again, but instead of tobacco, they're aiming at energy drinks. [Link](http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-energy-drinks-20130901,0,1590016.story?track=rss&utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29).

Self-righteousness is a terrible thing. The self-righteous violate the first rule of human conduct: "Know thyself." The self-righteous always think they're acting for noble reasons when they are normally acting out of the basest self-interest. Trust me, I know this first hand. If you're afflicted with self-righteousness, the only remedy is to become very small, St. Therese of Lisieux-like, and even then, it's a hard road to recovery.

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The best people in Washington are self-righteous. The others are self-admitted liars and thieves. And Washington has all the power. This country is in a bad way.