Something for Sunday Morning
"Do not imagine that love to be true must be extraordinary."
Mother Teresa
Eric Scheske
Friday
Brews You Can Use
Maybe I'll become a renaissance man. An expert in everything: philosophy,
theology, history, art, beer, finance, copulatory technique, dewey decimal
system, chemistry, TV, electronics, fashion, web-page design. Even cooking.
Heck, especially cooking, now that I've found the magic ingredient: beer. Beers
can
Thursday
Need the Book Roadmap?
You know what's kinda hard? Starting a non-fiction book when you don't know what
it's about. I recently tried it for the first time, inadvertently. I read an
off-hand positive remark on a site I enjoy about The God of
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In Grand Rapids earlier this month
-- Mobile post
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“In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007,
financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair
stylists, Walmart floor workers and people who had worked on assembly lines and
installed them in “foreclosure expert” jobs with no formal training, a Florida
lawyer says.”
– Robo-signers: Mortgage
The Evening Eudemon
“When friends called Charles Carroll ”“ the only Catholic signer of the
Declaration of Independence ”“ an “American Cicero,” it was the highest form of
praise. Bradley Birzer notes this, by the way, in his very good new Carroll
biography.”
– ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT: Life in the late republic: The Catholic role in America
Tuesday
Happy Prose
Okay, so I'm supposed to have a smile on my prose. That was a tall self-imposed
order. Fortunately, the pessimistic Lew Rockwell bailed me out. He penned a
large piece that he posted yesterday: The Killing and Reviving of the American
Dream [http://www.lewrockwell.com/
The Evening Eudemon
“As St. Augustine noted in City of God, Roman success was built not just on
greed, pride and violence. It also flowed from the early Roman virtues of piety,
austerity, courage, justice and self-mastery. For Augustine, these virtues had
an unfortunate and self-defeating basis in paganism. But in their natural
Monday
Twitter
Another Lions game yesterday. I would never attend two NFL games in one year (my
preference: one every 3-4 years), but my boys got free tickets to the first game
I attended a month ago, and these tickets were ordered before the free tickets.
Although I didn't
Old Tiger Stadium
Jack, Michael, and Max on the pitching mound at old Tiger Stadium.
Other pics from old Tiger Stadium earlier today.