BYCU
"IT'S OFFICIAL: Canned craft beer is no longer evil." Link
[http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-22/news/37906513_1_cans-boston-beer-small-brewers]
.
I'm glad to hear that. I always enjoyed drinking out of a can. I was also a beer
can
Eric Scheske
Thursday
Weather Woes
The weather has been atrocious. How atrocious? Check out the following, and also
note the prediction: it's going to continue to be atrocious: "Just-completed
March did an end run around historic temperature trends here by becoming one of
only 8 in the past 142
Wednesday
Since the 1980s, I've heard that the NBA is crooked, and I've heard it from
reputable sources. The refs supposedly fix the games. The question is, do they
fix games for their personal profit or at the direction of the League? I incline
to the view
Tuesday
Trifles
The backyard garden is beginning to take shape. I went to the city compost site
and grabbed over 500 pounds of decomposed wood chips yesterday. I mixed a chunk
of it with "primo" compost (mostly, kitchen scraps) to balance out the carbon
and nitrogen, dumped about 200
Easter
"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld him as a reality in the
world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of
its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or
watch a man
Holy Saturday
Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson
By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had
swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of
nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the
words of St. Gregory of Nyssa:
Good Friday
“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that
their sufferings might be like His.” George MacDonald
"The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat." G.K. Chesterton
On those who hate Christianity: "They do not dislike the Cross
Holy Thursday
"[I]n the agony of Gethsemane the ultimate consequences of our sin had their
hour. . . . God permitted his Son to taste the human agony of rejection and
plunge towards the abyss. . . Gethsemane was the hour in which Jesus' human
heart and mind experienced the ultimate odium of the
Wednesday
On Jesuits
"Vincent O'Keefe, an American Jesuit and a former acting Father General, used to
joke that Catholics believe 'the Jesuits know everything – but nothing else.'"
You'll find that anecdote and other basic information about the Jesuits at this
fine piece at
Tuesday
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