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# The Seasonal Eudemon
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5235/
- Published: 2006-12-14T11:44:43.000Z
- Updated: 2006-12-14T11:44:43.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

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](http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/061213/K121308AU.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> 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](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061214/ap%5Fon%5Fre%5Fus/diaz%5Fexecution?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). 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](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/13/health/13cnd-hiv.html?ei=5065&en=8833323645b51227&ex=1166677200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

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.