Month: August 2011
Flannery on Ayn: I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. …
Received in an Email I received a slew of emails this week regarding Chesterton. If you’re a GKC fan, you’ll find it interesting. For everyone else, you may want …
Received in an Email I guess it’s from 2003, but the link is making its email rounds and the Catholic Online published it earlier this year: Treatment of Catholic …
New Book Many years ago, I was drawn to Martin Buber and Max Picard. Buber, I met in an Alpena, Michigan, bookstore, picking up his I and Thou for …
“That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.” George Gissing
Useful Beer I’ve said it many times: Don’t drink for the health of it. Drink for the hell of it. But that doesn’t mean beer can’t be useful. It …
Badger Beer Man The Badger Catholic articulates some deeply Beer-Manish thoughts: The problem with the modern man is that he thinks there is a disconnect from drinking and family. …
Rise of the Zombies In Monsters from the Id, E. Michael Jones advanced an interesting theory: a culture’s horror films reflect its sub-conscious. Frankenstein was fear of the unknown …
Drinking Corner with Jeeves Triumvirate: Schall writing about a Wodehouse book for which Belloc provided by the introduction. The Week End Wodehouse. I gotta get this volume. Notable excerpt …
Smashwords Whew. This ebook publishing thing is a real hassle. A friend recommended I try Smashwords. I downloaded their free “how-to” books and re-formatted Beer Man. It took over …
“Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.” St. John Chrysostom (But the way the stock market is going, this ain’t a problem either way. heh heh …
Brews You Can Use I have my reservations about “The Art of Manliness” website, but overall, it posts some great stuff. Earlier this week, I stumbled across an excellent …