Saturday
A Random Passage
"Old people, alone, as a class, have the time to be young." Henry Adams, Mont
Saint Michel and Chartres. (Not an exact quote, but very close)
Eric Scheske
Interesting
H.I.F.
"What he found is a “pyx” – a small, gold, frame-like object used to carry the
Catholic church's Holy Eucharist. The pyx was part of 1715 wreckage that sank
there 299 years ago today." Link
[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/31/
Friday
BYCU
Back in my beer-drinking days, I loved keg beer. Whenever I helped set up for a
party, I was in charge of putting the tap on and getting the foam out . . . a
job I attacked with white-mustached zest. When I went to the bar, I always
asked,
Interesting
H.I.F.
Is this Athens, Georgia or Athens, Greece? Cops Attack Gay Couple In Athens For
Holding Hands
[http://www.newnownext.com/cops-attack-gay-couple-in-athens-for-holding-hands-today-in-gay/07/2014/]
. Home of the Sacred Band of Thebes, Patroclus and Achilles, and a host
An Unusual History
I've been slowly making my way through Peter Marshall
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(author)]'s Demanding the
Impossible: A History of Anarchism . At the rate I'm going, and given the length
of the book (841 pages), I figure I'll finish
Barzun
I bought this book when it came out: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of
Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun. I've never read it,
primarily because it hasn't fit in with any of the projects I've worked on over
GKC Wednesday
Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine
[http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible
for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a
sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson
sent me a
Meyers
A restaurant in New York has created the Rice Burger, which replaces normal
burger buns with rice patties. The restaurant also replaces customers with empty
chairs.
Letterman
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the largest single transmission of
deadly germs is a handshake. You're lucky, because the most popular form of
greeting here in New York is the middle finger.
Montaigne and Our Silliness
William James' stream of consciousness, that fundamental fact of our existence that cannot be stopped (we "think" like we breathe, not like we walk or fish or watch TV . . . thinking cannot be stopped) "explains without moralizing what that wonderful self-observer Montaigne found as the chief