Monday
Twitter
Tebow severely disappointed me ("disgusted me" might be more accurate) with his
crying at the end of Florida's loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game, but
his heart and head are in the right spot: He's going to appear in a pro-
Eric Scheske
Something for Sunday Morning
“Always keep the same measure of self-control; otherwise through irregularity
you will go from one extreme to another.” The Philokalia
Abbie"s First Drawing
On display downtown last night.
-- Mobile post
Brews You Can Use
Pretty soon, it'll be one man controlling everything, overseeing a one-nation
world, drinking its one beer. All of that might not happen any time soon, but
the beer part might. Due to all the recent mergers and acquisitions in the
beverage market, "the four top players
Tomorrow's Reading
With respect to my earlier post: Tomorrow's reading is from 1 Samuel 8: 4 - 7,
10 - 22:
6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to govern us."
And Samuel prayed to the LORD.
7 And the LORD said to Samuel,
Samuel the Libertarian/Anarchist
Watch for tomorrow's First Reading at Mass. It's one of my favorites. It's the
Lord's response when Samuel tells Him that the Israelites want a king. Classic
(well, the Bible's always classic, but this is "classic" in the
From the Notebooks
Merleau-Ponty's theory of art, according to Richard Kearney: "Paintings or poems
are not just creative expressions for their authors. They also require
audiences. The significance of a work of art, consequently, is not something
fixed once and for all by the artist or passively consumed by
Wednesday
Miscellany
I guess the Vatican is (justifiably) disturbed by the message behind James
Cameron's Avatar
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/vatican-slams-avatar-prom_n_419949.html]
. The newspaper said it "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the
worship of nature." I
From the Notebooks
Investment Decision:
Dying White Guys or Growing Non-Whites?
"If the growth rate of per capita income . . . between 2003 and 2050 remains as
it was between 1973 and 2003--averaging 1.68 percent annually in Europe, the
United States, and Canada and 2.47 percent annually in the rest
Monday
Tiger, Brit, and Kerouac
A lot of people are upset about Brit Humes' advice to Tiger Woods last week (
linked here at TDE [https://thedailyeudemon.com/12531/]). "Post media critic Tom Shales put
him in the category of a 'sanctimonious busybody' engaged in 'telling people