Something for Sunday Morning
"Be the living expression of God's kindness--kindness in your face, kindness in
your eyes, kindness in your warm greeting." Mother Teresa
Eric Scheske
BYCU
Loko Legislatures
Bans against alcohol energy drinks have picked up steam, and it looks like the
legislatures are trying "one-up" each other in their prohibitions. Consider
Iowa: "The caffeinated frenzy has also spread to Iowa (House File 25 and Senate
File 1) where caffeine in liquor,
Thursday
Random Thursday
Remember last month's post about breathing and meditation ("Woe the Man with
Halitosis [https://thedailyeudemon.com/17498/]")? I mentioned that breathing has played a big
role in the meditation practices of many religions, but not, from what I could
tell, in Catholicism. It looks
Wednesday
Labor v. Leisure
There's a thing called the "disutility of labor." It's a fancy phrase that
basically means people prefer leisure over labor.
We constantly see people make current sacrifices in order to get advantages
later, and one of the principle advantages is leisure.
TDE News Flash
Even the Grey Lady now acknowledges the looming problem of rising prices:
Companies Raise Prices as Commodity Costs Jump
[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/business/15prices.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw&pagewanted=print]
.
Stock up on everything. Now. I suspect
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
"You wanna touch my Oscar? It'll light up my life." Hollywood egomaniac becomes
convicted rapist. His son faces felony murder charges. . . . more>>
[http://nymag.com/news/features/71271/]
Operating Thetan VII leaves Scientology because it won't embrace
Monday
More on Paul
Kinda significant: The Washington Post ran a version of that Slate article on
Ron Paul [http://www.slate.com/id/2284503/pagenum/all/#p2] over the weekend:
Ron
Paul, opponent of the Fed and fan of the gold standard, a lone wolf no more
[http://www.washingtonpost.
Something for Sunday Morning
On Work
Francis Fernandez:
"Our Lord wants those who follow him in the midst of the world to be people who
work well. They must be known for the quality of their work, which will have the
prestige of excellence, and be thoroughly competent in their job or profession.
(Untitled)
Contemplating Craft
The recession hasn't been kind to beer sales, but it hasn't hit the craft beer
industry. It's booming (sales were up 12% in 2009 alone). Since craft beer is
more expensive than the mass-produced stuff, the logical conclusion is that
people
Thursday
Slow Thursday
There's now an iPhone app for confession
[http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/02/09/forgive-me-iphone-for-i-have-sinned/]
. I might download it, but iPieta [http://www.ipieta.com/] has pretty much
everything I need, plus I've added a lot of Catholic