Something for Sunday Morning
"We shall ask him to help us uproot our egoism, to cure us of thinking too much
about ourselves and to eliminate from our hearts any kind of lukewarmness."
Francis Fernandez
-- Mobile post
Eric Scheske
The Evening Eudemon
“It is an error to see in our dreams nothing but the divagations of our
unconscious self. They are woven of the same threads-though unpicked and
re-ordered-that compose the stuff of our life and our being. In them we find
tossed together memories of yesterday and memories
Friday
Brews You Can Use
Another instance of modern academics catching up with ancient understanding:
Beer may have lubricated the rise of civilization
[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40071314/ns/technology_and_science-science/]. I
have long speculated (and may have internalized it from a third party, like
Chesterton) that,
Thursday
It's the Exiting-the-Pool Economy!
Finally, an econ watcher gives vent to something I've been witnessing: value
shrinkage. It's the flip-side of price increases. Instead of rising prices, we
get less for the same price. "Due to rising input costs and
(Untitled)
“A Nietzschean friend of mine who had stayed at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte
Cassino, humbly confessed the thing that had surprised him most: in this society
of monks living by a common faith, subject to a common rule, he had come to be
aware of an extraordinary variety of
Bonus Monday Morning Coverage
What the heck? Bernanke announced QE2 just five days ago. This morning, the WSJ
runs a piece by Kevin Warsh
[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704353504575596762375409760.html?KEYWORDS=Kevin+warsh#articleTabs%3Darticle]
, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. The piece is
balanced and sane. The
Monday
Pope, Pixar, and Peanut Butter
Ah man. That's just gross: "About 200 people have staged a gay "kiss-in" as
Pope
Benedict XVI drove by
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101107/ap_on_re_eu/eu_pope_10]." I think I'd
Something for Sunday Morning
"The virtue of fortitude leads us to be patient when unpleasant things happen
and we are given bad news. It leads us to be patient in dealing with the
obstacles that each day brings with it." Francis Fernandez
Friday
Brews You Can Use
Halloween is over, but it's still the harvest season. Harvest-themed beers are
appropriate through November 25th. I bought a six-pack of pumpkin beer last year
and really enjoyed it. If you want a run-down of a handful of pumpkin beers that
Wednesday
Post-Election Ramblings
As I get older and read more, I realize that our Founding Fathers had a lot of
flaws and the system they implemented was not an impartial mechanism of
governing. Still, their ideas impress me, like their insight that the Senate
would be a stabilizing force that