Something for Sunday Morning
Peace "is granted only to men of good will--to those who strive with the whole
of their strength to live their lives in accordance with God's will." Francis
Fernandez
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
Taking my micropolitan area by storm: Incentive Vodka
[http://www.incentivevodka.com/Main.html]. Friends say it's better than Grey
Goose, but priced just a bit cheaper.
Thursday
This 2006 op-ed from the New York Times
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/opinion/05chace.html] ought to be required
reading for every prospective college student and every politician that makes
student loans available: “A Little Learning is an Expensive Thing.” It's
William Chace, a
Wednesday
Tuesday
I like to read off-the-beaten path books, as long as I have indicia that they're
reliable and good. I saw this book by Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddhin
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn]: The Menace of the Herd
. I'd been
Monday
Rich Karlgaard at Forbes
[http://blogs.forbes.com/digitalrules/2010/06/the-millionaire-cop-next-door/]
points out that public sector employees make A LOT more than folks in the
private sector:
> Who are America's fastest-growing class of millionaires? They are police
officers, firefighters, teachers and
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
Brews You Can Use
All Beer Items Today
Another great old ad, perfect for drinking Friday. I drank a lot of Blatz as a
young man, but never got it this way . . . though goodness knows I tried to talk
my girlfriends into it! (Just kidding. No lectures about impurity needed.) * * *
* * * * Boston Beer Company, the
Thursday
A Few Quick Things
Worked until after 8:00 last night, then sat in the basement until 10:00 under
threat of a tornado warning (man, our town's tornado alarm is eerie-sounding . .
. which is a good thing, of course). It's the third time this year
Wednesday
Teens to Oil
That's the teen mission group from my church this week. My son is in the
upper-lefthand corner. My daughter is in the lower-righthand corner. The mission
is in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I guess they're in a pretty rough section of
town. Abbie