Misc
"You can still find an old English prayerbook with the passage, 'Guard us from
the Northmen.'"
Adams, For Good and Evil, p 159, writing about Viking incursions.
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Eric Scheske
Brew You Can Use
Drinking a Blue Moon on the beach earlier this summer
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Brews You Can Use
Another drinking public service: Thrillist
[http://www.thrillist.com/mktg/41950/Nation].
> Let us help you find free booze.
> Thrillist, a free daily email, sifts through the crap to find your city's best
events, including sweet open bars all over town.
> Each day, you'
Lake Huron.
View to the South from my parents' cottage
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"Facebook has more followers than Buddha." Evan Hessel, Forbes, 9/7/09, p 80.
Great line. It's accurate (fb has 250m members, Buddhism something fewer). It's
clever, it's tightly-written, and it either required the writer to research the
number of Buddhists or
iPhone Blogging Activated
Or not?
Please bear with me these next few days as I experiment with mobile blogging. I
will have my normal daily post (though light, as mentioned earlier), but, if
this works, additional twitter-type posts. Don't worry, I won't be posting about
sartorial, hygenic, or other
Max
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The Wednesday Eudemon
Flannery
Conservative Catholics can't get enough of Flannery O'Connor. At First Things
this week: Review/essay of Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life of
Flannery O'Connor.
[http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/08/flannery-without-the-faith]
Nicely done. Excerpt:
> Gooch traces O'Connor&
Tuesday Patchwork
Questioning Abe?
I've been following this guy
[http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/SouthernAvenger/archives/2009/08/22/the-nyts-on-lincoln-giving-license-to-rape]
off-and-on for a few months now. A southern boy who writes for, among others,
the Greek Taki. I pretty much agree with everything he writes. Because I'm not a
Monday Miscellany
Sticking It to the Middle Class
"Budget cuts have hit public colleges hard, even as the demand for a
well-educated workforce soars
[http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/budget-cuts-take-toll-on-education_print.htm]
." That's the headline from U.S. News & Report cover story