Something for Sunday Morning
"If we are not to be scorched and made unfruitful, we need the dew of God. Since
we have our accuser, we need an Advocate as well."
St. Irenaeus
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
The Modern Drunkard
I was having a heck of a time finding bloggable drinking material last night.
And then I stumbled across an old friend: Modern Drunkard Magazine
[http://moderndrunkardmagazine.com/]. Its editor, Frank Kelly Rich, would
appear
to be a genuine drunk
[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002138215_
Pirate Day
Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me
One of the best podcasts comes from George Mason University's economics
department: EconTalk. It's perfectly pitched at my level of economics learning,
not too basic, not too advanced. I get excited every time a new podcast comes
Mini-Book Reviews
Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some
originals.
It's a Random World
I bought this book after hearing Taleb interviewed on EconTalk
[http://www.econtalk.org/]. The host (Russ Roberts) asked Taleb about the
economic meltdown (rough quote), "So, you were right
Religion and More Religion
Neo-Emerson Revival?
Very interesting review essay at The New Statesman about religion and modernity
[http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/religion-american-modern-world]. The
premise: Religion and modernity co-exist just fine. Voltaire and the
Enlightenment and its progeny have always been wrong about modernity and
religion:
> Whether Marxian or Millian,
Memorial Day Eudemon
Stay Out of the Museum
Night in the Museum 2 finished first in the box office: "Ben Stiller beat
Christian Bale in the North American weekend box office duel between their
respective "Night at the Museum" and "Terminator" sequels, according to studio
estimates issued on
Something for Sunday Morning
"The Christian should be an alleluia from head to toe."
St. Augustine
I'll try to keep that in mind. Unfortunately, I fail, repeatedly. Perhaps even
more unfortunately, the alleluia people bug me. Not the people with quiet joy,
but the in-your-face joyful, the people in whom
BYCU: Beer and Related Areas
Give Him the Nobel
Is your bartender pulling back a second early on the tap, leaving you a
centimeter or two shy of the top? It's costing you buzz. The new Beer Gauge
tells you how much [http://thebeergauge.com/]. "[T]he majority of the volume in
Russians, Muslims, and the Bagpiper
Seven Abandoned Wonders of the USSR
You ever think to yourself: "This is gonna land me in Hell"? I do, way too
frequently. I have an acerbic turn of mind. I think I'm subduing it, but then it
rears its head mightily. I'd like
From the Notebooks
The Funny Guy
What's the definition of a funny guy? Most obviously: A guy who makes others
laugh.
But that definition doesn't answer many questions. What about the clumsy guy who
stumbles a lot and unintentionally makes others laugh? What about the guy who
unintentionally says