Light blog today. Tis the season . . . to move two pool tables into friends's basements. A hernia and backache later, the pool tables are in the basements, never to come back up.
When I got home, I showered and decided to read a little St. John of the Cross, since today is his memorial. Thing is, I don't think a person can read just a little SJC. This is the third or fourth time I've tried, and it proved fruitless. So I read five or so pages from von Balthasar's Lay Styles. It was interesting, but it yielded no good fodder for an article or a blog post, and I'm still not very learned in The Dark Night of the Soul, though I've come to understand that it doesn't refer to a hangover.
You have to love the all-thumbs and lack-of-discretion approach consistently used by bureaucrats:
The mother of a high school senior who posed in chain mail with a medieval sword for his yearbook picture has sued after the school rejected the photo because of its "zero tolerance" policy against weapons.
Patrick Agin, 17, belongs to the Society for Creative Anachronism, an international organization that researches and recreates medieval history.
I see their point, of course. If you let this kid pose with a sword, next year some kid will want to pose with a switchblade and Saturday Night Special. Since common sense distinctions carry no weight in the public sphere, people would complain of discrimination. It'd be anarchy. Much better to have a morgue.
It took a man 34 minutes to die during an execution yesterday. I clicked on the story, thinking maybe it was a turbulent 34-minute ride on Old Sparky, but it was just a boring lethal injection arrangement.
Further proof that HIV is a Jewish plot: Circumcision reduces the risk of catching AIDS.
I recently found this quote by Jean Grenier, Albert Camus's philosophy teacher: "Modern man has ceased to believe in a God to be obeyed (Hebrew and Christian), a society to be respected (Hindu and Chinese), a nature to be followed (Greek and Roman)." And people wonder why this blog tends to be irreverent.
