Something for Sunday Morning
"All nature is good."
St. Augustine
Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
Roll Me Away
The weather has turned nice. That means one thing: cheap bowling. Bowling alleys
slash prices dramatically to attract bowlers during the warm months. This
Lebowski [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski]-like observation was
triggered by a recent issue of New York magazine: Not Your
Fluid Thursday
Stream of Consciousness Thursday
I'd forgotten about this short-lived feature. It garnered some boos and some
laughs, and I like laughs, like that scene from Mary Poppins ("I love to laugh.
Hahaha"), but that weightlessness stuff reminds me of astronauts, and I hear
they have
The End of Volunteerism
In a Service Club, a Long Time Ago
I belong to a service club that has a somewhat unique officer arrangement. If
you "go through the chairs," you're committing to a five-year stint. Three of
the years require you to be at every weekly meeting,
Tuesday Miscellany
Bubba Cometh
While at my parents' on Mother's Day, my father told me to check out this
article at The Economist
[http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13528224]
. It's about a new line of business: prison consulting. Or, "How to
Hip, Kangaroos, and More
Hip Me with Your Best Shot
Professor Charles Rice at Notre Dame liked to tell us, "You don't have to wear a
pony tail and sandals to be counter-cultural. You just have to be a good
Catholic." So I was a little disappointed (not surprised
Something for Sunday Morning
"When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent
as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings."
St. Paul of the Cross
Brews You Can Use
A celebratory BYCU today: My tweaked TDE format appears to be paying off.
Average daily visitors this week have exceeded 600. Traditionally, about 400
people come through (run through, accidentally click on site then swear
"Catholic Fascist!" then log off, etc.). This week has seen a 50% uptick,
From the Notebooks
Waste
We waste money. We waste time. Teenagers get wasted. Broken old drunkards wasted
their lives. T.S. Eliot wrote of The Wasteland. Freddie Fender sang of Wasted
Days and Wasted Nights, and The Who sang of Teenage Wasteland. Anorexics waste
away. Landfills contain waste and sewage is known as
Wednesday Miscellany
Porn Hurts, Episode 1,982,001
> A 45-year-old internet porn addict is facing jail after he attacked his wife
and
forced her to have her genitals pierced. Police said the man from Istria had
demanded she get the piercing done so she would be more like a