Brews You Can Use
This might be a 2009 first: Drinking while writing BYCU. I used to do it regularly. Truth revealed: in the early days, BYCU was normally written after a few …
Month: February 2009
The Post-Christian Age?
Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn’t exist anymore, except as a …
Ash Wednesday Miscellany
When you fast, do not put on gloomy faces, like the hypocrites do. “Today God asks us also for a rather special mortification which we offer up cheerfully . …
Looting Bush
I listened to a fascinating podcast at Lew Rockwell yesterday: Russ Baker on The Looting Bush Family. Baker has written a polemic against the Bushes. The book’s basic premise: …
The Sign of the Coward
“A brave man is also patient.” Thomas Aquinas. Those two chairs—bravery and patience—don’t go together in most people’s intellectual living room, but if you consider them for a few …
Something for Sunday Morning
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought …
Received in an Email
In honor of the mother of the octuplets, Denny’s is offering a new breakfast meal called the Octo-Slam. You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to …
Brews You Can Use
A real lady’s man, there. Men will say just about anything to get a beer. Let’s see, there’s also “I’ll give you a thousand bucks if you get me …
A Catholic Blog?
How Catholic is this blog? I asked myself that question yesterday morning. My wife called me to say that she thought the Sirius Radio appearance on the Catholic Channel …
Stimulus Question
So, the stimulus package is now law. Create lots of money and lots of debt and create prosperity. But one question: If that’s the way to prosperity, why aren’t …
From the Notebooks
I took my wife to see “Taken” last night (recommended, but not great), and I have the Sirius interview in just a little while, so blogging time is at …
Tuesday Miscellany
How much more understanding do we need? A suburban Buffalo man who founded a cable TV station to promote better understanding of Muslims in the U.S. has been arrested …