> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Monday - URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/41608/ - Published: 2016-12-05T06:05:20.000Z - Updated: 2016-12-05T06:05:20.000Z - Author: Eric Scheske - Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk ![misc-rambling-pic](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Misc-Rambling-Pic-300x225.jpg) Miscellaneous Rambling ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Far out: [Italy joins the United States and Britain in rejecting the centralizing efforts of the elites](https://www.yahoo.com/news/italys-renzi-loses-referendum-constitutional-reform-exit-polls-221129482.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). The Popularism tide continues to roll. In a past life, such a thing would've made me nervous, but in light of the monstrosities that are DC and the EU, any stab at central authority is a good stab. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Winter arrives this week. *The Old Farmer's Almanac* says this could be the start of a brutal three (or four) months. It's supposedly predicting that winter will start late and end late . . . and winter itself will be harsher and more snowy than normal. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) So I hauled in all my exposed greens yesterday: large batches of kale and spinach that aren't protected by a cold frame. I also hauled in a bit of lettuce that didn't die during recent cold days, plus the lettuce in the cold frames (so I could make room for my pots of spinach that I hope will make it over winter). The batch of greens should last us at least a week, taking us to December 12th. At that point, I'll start pulling spinach from the cold frames. I think I have enough to get us to Christmas, which is my annual goal. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) Thanks, *USA Today*. I was pretty much over the officiating scandal in the UM-OSU game, but now [it turns out the referees were, indeed, incompetent and biased in favor of OSU](http://thebiglead.com/2016/11/29/this-conspiracy-theory-about-the-referees-in-ohio-state-michigan-has-some-merit/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It's incomprehensible how the Big Ten could've allowed this to happen in the biggest game of the year. Given OSU football's checkered ethical history (read: "Jim Tressel"), you wonder if they're pulling stunts with Big Ten officers. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) In case you missed it on your religious site browsing, *The Daily Mirror* ran this neat story: [Jesus Christ's tomb opened for first time in 500 years to reveal miraculous discovery inside](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/jesus-christs-tomb-opened-first-9381660?service=responsive&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). *The Daily Mirror* is a British tabloid, and a left-leaning one at that, so I wouldn't expect much religious insight, but I think they should've noted the logical flaw in this observation: “Without bones or artefacts we'll never be able to say for sure this was the tomb of Christ." ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) I think I've concluded that TDE's "Miscellaneous Ramblings" columns are pretty rigorous, intellectually, from a digital prose perspective. I'd estimate that each paragraph contains, on average, about four sentences. As far as online reading goes, such a paragraph structure is like a post-graduate reading level. That *Mirror* article, for instance, doesn't contain a single paragraph that has more than one sentence. ![Ceiling. Trastevere](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ceiling.-Trastevere-225x300.jpg) "And what," you might be asking, "is with the new Miscellaneous Rambling photo?" (Or, you might now be thinking, "I hadn't noticed a thing.") Well, it's [a picture from the British National Gallery](https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/flemish-cognoscenti-in-a-room-hung-with-pictures?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) I took last month. ![cognoscenti](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Cognoscenti-225x300.jpg) [Amazon Deals of the Day](http://amzn.to/23gPJNE?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)