Interesting, BYCU Version
H.I.F.
For all you beer nerds out there: "Beer Studies: BJCP Classic Example
Scoresheets with Audio [http://www.bjcp.org/course/ClassicStyles.php]." Pretty
extensive effort.
Eric Scheske
Friday
Kingsley Amis: "Charles Jackson's marvellous and horrifying The Lost Weekend,
still the best fictional account of alcoholism I have read."
I'm going to have to get that book. First, it deals with booze. Second, it's
endorsed by a man of literary quality
Interesting
H.I.F.
A few more from Reddit's Today I Learned
[http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/]:
A black woman in 1828 won a lawsuit against a white man who sold her son into
slavery. She was the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white
Conan
Marvel Comics is introducing its first major superhero who is a female Muslim.
The female Muslim superhero can fly, which comes in handy because she's not
allowed to drive.
History of Rome
While preparing for a trip to Rome, I downloaded Rick Steves' Rome 2014 guide.
In his (intentionally) comically short history of the Eternal City, he wrote the
following:
> Ancient Rome lasted a thousand years (500 B.C.-A.D. 500), half as an expanding
republic, half as a
GKC
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 file full
Interesting
H.I.F.
A few "Today I Learned [http://en.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/]" entries from
Reddit:
The McRib is only "back" whenever pork prices are lowest. Link
[http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage].
A trivia book author included a fake entry that said '
Conan
British scientists are saying King Tut died in a chariot accident. I think he
was texting.
Why a Writer Should Write
Great passage from a 1999 interview with Joseph Epstein
[http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba990630.htm]. I've
emphasized the last sentence because (i) it parallels the Samuel Johnson quote
that has graced the top of the TDE page for nearly ten years, and (ii) it&
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
Best link of my weekend reading: The Ten Commandments of Government
[http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-02/10-commandments-government]. They're
all relevant and accurate, but I think I liked the Tenth Commandment the best:
"As government grows ever more powerful, it must also become increasingly
oppressive