Brews You Can Use
Viral infection has its boot on my neck. Just this great advertisement for
today. The first line is a killer:
You can find many more here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR0YtEe2Th0].
Eric Scheske
Thursday
Goyette on Inflation
Spring kid activities leave little time for anything except work and . . .
spring activities. I get most of my exercise by walking to work, I get most of
my ongoing education from podcasts while I walk.
This week, I've been listening to this lecture
[http://mises.
Wednesday
Miscellany
We talk about the "cradle to grave" welfare state, but I've applied that toward
life's underclass, those who get free lunches K-12, food coupons and welfare,
Medicaid, etc. Mark Steyn points out that we are getting there for all classes
by pushing
Tuesday
Happy Up
Americans are rich, make no doubt about it. But we're not happy. "Joyless
lottery winners" is how a writer for The New Yorker says about us in this nifty
piece about recent eudemonistic research
[http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/03/22/
Monday
Comical Queeridity
Archie Comics is going gay! The gay's name is "Kevin." But they're not trying to
normalize homosexuality or anything like that, not at all: "The strapping blond
will defeat Jughead in a burger eating contest, win the affection of Veronica
and
Something for Sunday Morning
"[W]e must be active in all that the present moment demands of us, but in
everything else remain passive and abandoned and do nothing but peacefully await
the promptings of God." de Caussade, Abandonment
Brews You Can Use
Dinner Beers
My father waged a thirty-year battle in favor of beer. When he moved to our
micropolitan area, it was understood that classy people didn't drink beer.
Everyone drank hard liquor. That was 1969. But he stuck to his guns, drinking
water if they didn'
No Blogging Thursday
I'm sorry, but I'm whipped. No blogging today. This little league baseball
coaching is going to kill me . . . soon, if I'm lucky. Otherwise, I have two
more months left. Did I find The Bad News Bears funny? I think I did, but it
seems
Wednesday
Compost Land
Last weekend, I ripped open the chicken-wired pile in my backyard and looked for
compost. I'd been shoving my family scraps in the pile since December 2008,
adding twigs, leaves, grass clippings and other matter at random.
The results were amazing. I got six times
Tuesday
Alien Life
I've never ruled out alien life, but I lean toward the scoffing mode. This book
review raises some interesting points on behalf of the E.T. searchers
[http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15864923]. "Modern
man evolved as a species 100,000