Tuesday
My two oldest kids are at Catholic Heart Work Camp this week. My middle daughter
was at a friend's for the day/night. The house hasn't been clean in months. So
we bribed the four remaining kids: work hard to pick up the house, and we&
Eric Scheske
Monday
Miscellany Monday
Happy Summer. Enjoy the longest day of the year. * * * * * * * I love historical
ancedotes, and this is one of the better ones I've heard recently: "Apocryphal
story about Enrique Fermi, probably about other professors as well: student
comes into Fermi's office, surprised to see
Something for Sunday Morning
"Let us not think that in another place, in another situation we would be ready
to follow Our Lord more closely . . . The fruits of sanctity Our Lord expects
are those produced in and from the environment in which we find ourselves, here
and now: tiredness, sickness, family, the job
Brews You Can Use
Beer profile: Trappist ales
[http://blog.beeriety.com/2010/06/16/style-profile-trappist-ale/]. Good stuff
(the article, but the beer too). * * * * * * * I used to drink copious amounts
of beer and watch the VHS of the Blue Brothers. I didn't realize I was engaged
in a quasi-
Thursday
Horror in Different Forms
Old ads like this one crack me up. * * * * * * * "FDA: 'Female Viagra' falls
short [http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GCIV4O0&show_article=1]." Well,
yeah. They don't have penises. * * * * * * * What would we do without scientific
studies? "In
Slow Blogging Wednesday
Ya gotta like Robert Higgs. He loathes big government, and we are undergoing
some of the biggest government growth in modern history. I also gotta believe
he's not terribly optimistic about the economy. Yet he has some advice for
everyone who is bracing for economic Armageddon: Chill out.
What Are They?
Tuesday
Miscellany
Highly recommended: Volume 15 in the Major Conservative and Libertarian
Thinkers
series focuses on the American Economist, Murray Rothbard
[http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=%2Fmain.aspx&BookId=133876&SubjectId=1023&Subject2Id=1023]
. Unfortunately, it's $130 $192 (that's not a
Monday
Jellybysitis
New York Magazine asks (6/14 issue): "Why is it so depressing that Al and
Tipper
Gore are getting divorced? [http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/66453/]"
Easy: The man wants to save the world, but he can't even save his own marriage.
You folks
Something for Sunday Morning
"This is what prayer really is--being in silent inward communion with God."
Benedict XVI