Something for Sunday Morning
"The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the
appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else." Chesterton
Eric Scheske
Seen on the Internet
"Back in 1927, Lenin offered some shockingly prescient predictions for the
century ahead:
Germany will militarize herself out of existence,
England will expand herself out of existence,
and America will spend herself out of existence."
Interesting
"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal tells the tale...
"'Argentina's government has filed criminal charges against the managers of an
economic consulting firm,' the paper reads, 'escalating its persecution of
independent economists.'
"Apparently a local firm, MyS Consultores, published
Friday
The Gift
So I'm standing at my office window yesterday, talking with an acquaintance
about some pro bono project (not my favorite thing--I'm still a few halos short
of sainthood). The mailman walks in and hands me a package. My interlocutor
must've thought
McLuhan is 100
http://www.observer.com/2011/07/marshall-mccluhan-at-100-you-know-nothing-of-my-work/
Thursday
Reader Comments
Reader comments are beginning to come in. The most common theme: The book isn't
what you'd expect. It's not a book about getting drunk and "barfin' all over
your girlfriend's shoes" (The Eagles, "The Greeks Don&
Wednesday
The Shuttering
I learned recently that one of my favorite bars closed in northern Michigan. My
uncle owned it back in the 1980s, and it was a solid business.
We were talking about it during my family's golf outing last week, and my
brother, who was recently in
(Untitled)
Clearer visions from afar:
Obama does not want to go down in history as the president who bankrupted
America “so the only alternative is another unsavory deal – the 'kick the can
down the road' solution, as American politicians like to call it.
“The debt limit will be raised
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Bogotá, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Katmandu,
Lima, Manila, Mexico City, New Delhi, Quito, and Tehran: Where 1 million people
could die in thirty seconds. . . . more>>
[http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_earthquakes.html]
BYCU for CALW: Archeology shedding
Monday
Bad Movie
Well, just when I think Hollywood can't produce anything worse (than Scott
Pilgrim), it comes out with Zookeeper. Holy moley, it was bad. I didn't want to
go (one magazine said the movie will "appeal only to hard-core Kevin James
fans"