Something for Sunday Morning
“The virtues perfect us so that we follow our natural inclinations in a fitting
manner.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Eric Scheske
The Evening Eudemon
America's True History of Religious Tolerance
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Americas-True-History-of-Religious-Tolerance.html
When George Washington dispatched Benedict Arnold on a mission to court French
Canadians' support for the American Revolution in 1775, he cautioned Arnold not
to let their religion
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12 Cool Products for Beer Drinkers
http://www.toxel.com/tech/2010/09/23/12-cool-products-for-beer-drinkers/
Friday
Deep-Fried Beer and Other Forms of Beer Violence
Oh, what the hey. I'll try it: Deep-fried beer
[http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/246775/finally-deep-fried-beer]. "The
beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in
oil
Thursday
Thursday Miscellany
You'll find me reading GQ about as often as Out, but I couldn't resist this
piece: A series of quotes and memories from the cast and crew of GoodFellas, in
celebration of its 20th anniversary
[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201010/
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The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality: The
Independent Review: The Independent Institute
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803
Dozens of movies have portrayed the nineteenth-century mining camps in the West
as hot beds of anarchy and violence, but John Umbeck
Wednesday
Autobiographical Corner
Is there any metropolitan area more pathetic that Detroit? I attended a
conference yesterday in Dearborn, at its crown jewel hotel, the Hyatt
[http://dearborn.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp]. One of the sessions dealt
with legal issues surrounding Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking.
The speaker
The Evening Eudemon
The Ignorance of the New Yorker - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily
http://mises.org/daily/4717
As Oscar Wilde put it more than a hundred years ago, “there is much to be said
in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it
keeps us in touch
Tuesday
Fahrenheit 451 to Gold. Connection Somewhere
"Wells would have had man usurp the throne of God. Bradbury's hope is that man
will let God work through him; it is not the dead universe which is divine, but
'God fleshing himself in sentience'--the living God
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Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily
http://mises.org/daily/4689
Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one
sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and
beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.