Friday
Wines that Rock
Seen earlier this week: "Joining The Rolling Stones 'Forty Licks Merlot,'
'Woodstock Chardonnay,' The Police's 'Synchronicity Red Blend' and Pink Floyd's
'The Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon,' the Grateful Dead's
Eric Scheske
Thursday
Bite the (Area North of the) Big Apple, Don't Mind the Maggots
Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Hope College
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_College], a small liberal arts college in
Holland, Michigan, associated with the Dutch Reformists, had an Hispanic
problem. I don'
Wednesday
Received in an Email
You need a reason to drink? From one of the e-newsletters I subscribe to:
> Signs of decay abound...
> * Prosecutors in Shawnee County, Kan. – home to the state capital Topeka – say
they'll no longer pursue misdemeanor cases. As a result, 30 domestic
Tuesday
This seems consistent with massive money printing: The extra money flows to the
favored segments (Wall Street and its connections) but not to main street.
Meanwhile, the extra money results in climbing prices. All the while, the
government says it's a result of the Japanese earthquake, drought, and
Monday
The Land of Arnold
I previously used my weekends for philosophy and theology. Now I use them to
catch up on the previous week's contemporary reading, on those essays that I
should have read when they first appeared but simply couldn't get to because of
the
Something for Sunday Morning
"The Christian saint is happy because he has verily been cut off from the world;
he is separate from things and is staring at them in astonishment."
G.K. Chesterton
Thursday
Skid Row Street
If you didn't hear, Sesame Street has a new muppet: Lily. Her niche? Poverty.
Her "family faces an ongoing struggle with hunger issues." Link
[http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/10/04/sesame-street-hunger-muppet-photo/]. The goal
is to raise awareness of
Wednesday
Received in an Email
From one of my investment newsletters: a good, concise explanation of the
European problems (besides a dearth of soap and shampoo):
> There are three dynamics and a tension:
> Ӣ Dynamic I The inevitable default by Greece on its sovereign debt raises the
likelihood that one
Tuesday
St. Francis
The first part of October is crammed with good feast days. St. Therese on
October 1st, St. Francis today, St. Bruno in a few days.
In honor of St. Francis Feast Day, I grabbed Joseph Pearce's Wisdom and
Innocence, A Life of GK Chesterton off the
Monday
Manners
I learned yesterday in Richard Brookhiser's biography of George Washington that
he relied heavily on a 16th-century Jesuit text of manners. Washington
transcribed the book as a teenager and kept it with him the rest of his life. I
believe I have located the little book,