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
Eric Scheske
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
Cracked Me Up
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
The skies around Alpena were incessantly filled with the buzz of fighter jets,
presumably coming from the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. I've been
vacationing in the same spot for 48 years and I never recall hearing so much
activity, even in the summers leading up
Sunday
I returned from my final vacation of the year. This was our annual excursion
[https://thedailyeudemon.com/5631/] to Alpena, Michigan.
Northern Michigan is one of the prettiest places on the planet during the summer
and, though Alpena doesn't have all the natural beauty of the Lake Michigan
Interesting
H.I.F.
Here's President Obama on taxation:
> President Barack Obama has blasted American multinationals that move to Ireland
to cut their tax bill.
> In his toughest comments yet on the subject, he accused big US corporations of
trying to play “the system” by “magically becoming
Friday
BYCU (Kinda)
Even though I converted in 1991, which, I think, was the height of Mother
Angelica's popularity, I never listened to her. Partly, it's because I rarely
watched any TV back then, but partly out of arrogance. Mother Angelica, I
vaguely felt, was for the