Something for Sunday Morning
“As much as you watch over your mind carelessly, by so much you will become
distant from Jesus.”
Hesychius of Jerusalem
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
Mild Climate and Good Beer
I've never had a hankering to move to a warm weather area. I'm a Spring and Fall
guy: 65 degrees and sunny, that's me. The only warm climate city that has ever
appealed to me is San Diego. For
Spooky Post
Sexy Halloween
If you haven't heard, Halloween is number two. At almost $7 billion a year in
sales, Americans are spending more on Halloween than on any other holiday except
Christmas.
Want a 2-foot-tall zombie that pulls off its head? You can get it for $100. A
gory
Tuesday
Making Fun of The One?
The comedians are supposedly beginning to make jokes about Obama
[http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/latenight-comedians-turning-obama-20091011]
. That's gotta be hard for them, like joking about one's own mother, but maybe
they're finally seeing what many
Monday
Five Twitters
1. Niche blog of the month goes to: Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog
[http://www.brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/]. If you enjoy alliteration, you
might call it a "Nietzsche niche for fans of the nephalistic nullifidian." Via
[http://philosophybites.com/].
My digital friend Nick Milne once
Something for Sunday Morning
"There is never a moment when there is not some virtue to be practiced." de
Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence.
Nobel
A reader sends this link:
http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html
It says Nobel nominations must be received by February 1st. Obama got nominated
after being president for less than two weeks?
-- Mobile post
BYCU
A Guy's Dream
Good-lookin', drinks beer, and knows her place: A Muslim model has been
sentenced to six cane strokes for drinking a beer
[http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,653578,00.html]. Her actions
were pretty insidious:
> The young women in the hotel
Thursday
The Misanthrope
Wow, it's not often you absorb as much hatred as you'll find here: Gore Vidal
in
his final years
[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gore-vidals-united-states-of-fury-1798601.html]
. The novelist-Al Gore cousin-homosexual is one shockingly bitter man (heck, I
didn't even
Fidrych
My Tigers try to avoid the humiliation of one of history's bigger meltdowns
tonight. I thought it'd be a good time to run this piece.
The Bird's Swan Dive
On days like that, you didn't dare drink too much beer in old