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# Brews You Can Use
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5729/
- Published: 2007-09-28T08:47:35.000Z
- Updated: 2007-09-28T08:47:35.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

Gorgeous evening at the drinking club. It was my first trip in over a month, work and kid obligations having kept me distracted from drinking chores. After 90 minutes there, I came home, opened a microbrew, and sat on the front porch with Marie and listened to a new Diana Krall CD I'd just received in the mail. Very close to a nice evening: soft music, soft autumn weather, soft conversation . . . and Meg, Max, and Tess climbing all around us, spilling food, yelling (joyously and otherwise). We then watched *The Office* season premier, which was good, but I fell asleep halfway through.  
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Christmas in September. [It's the memorial of St. Wenceslaus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslaus%5FI,%5FDuke%5Fof%5FBohemia?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).  
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[Today's Catholic Church and capitalism](http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/blog/2007/09/pope-benedicts-critique-of-capitalism.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). A very good starting point. One of the best blog posts I've seen this year.

Aside: In addition to its solid treatment of the subject, this might be the archetypal blog post: individual analysis, excerpts, good links. It has everything that makes blogging a unique form of literature.  
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No matter how boneheaded they might be, I'll end up voting for a Republican. And [this is why](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298307,00.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> A fairy tale about two princes falling in love sparked a backlash – and a lawsuit – against a teacher and a school last year when it was read to a second-grade class in Massachusetts.

> But the three frontrunners in the Democratic presidential race suggested Wednesday night at their debate in New Hampshire that they'd support reading the controversial book to children as part of a school curriculum.

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[Moderate-drinking mice are better adjusted than teetotalling mice](http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2007/september/overlysensitive?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).  
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[The fake wine plague](http://www.slate.com/id/2173361/fr/flyout?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).  
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[Better late than never, Miller](http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10510&ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> Following an uproar over its sponsorship of the annual homosexual event known as the Folsom Street Fair, Miller Brewing Company has pulled its support from the event.

> The scuffle over the brewer's sponsorship is over a poster for the fair that portrays half-naked sado-masochists as Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper.

I love this line from the story:

> The group responsible for creating advertising for the “world's largest leather event” said it was not intended to be either "pro-religion or anti-religion."

Well, I guess, maybe. If you're a leather-totin' homosexual, such a portrayal of Our Savior might be a compliment of sorts, but could someone really think that it's a neutral-type statement? Is it morally neutral for a hooker to call another person's mother a whore?