Something for Sunday Morning
"If we indulge ourselves in vain, frivolous, or sinful speculations, our minds
become incapable of choosing what is most proper for mortifying our disorderly
affections."
Lawrence Scupoli
Eric Scheske
No Blogging Saturday
Relief is at hand. My son's last marching band performance was eight days ago,
my daughter's last home volleyball game five days ago, my two sons' last
football games today. After this, I have a few weeks of reprieve before other
activities kick in . . . and
Brews You Can Use
Making the best out of bad situations: A team of researchers at Rice University
in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart
disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a
junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic
From the Notebooks
"It is vain and useless to conceive either grief or joy for future things, which
perhaps shall never come to pass. But it is in human nature to be deluded with
such imaginations." The Imitation of Christ, Book 3, Chp. 30.
Why is it in our nature to
From the Notebooks
I may have been hungover while writing this entry in 2004. Good luck:
If you hear a purported absolute truth and it doesn't involve a paradox, you can
assume you hear heresy.
The tradition of Western philosophy to find an absolute source of
knowledge–Descartes' I think
From the Notebooks
From 2002
The coming of the sixth child has been the harshest for us to accept. We
finished the addition to our house a year ago, and we consider the house
absolutely perfect for our seven-person family. On a scale of one-to-ten, with
all things considered (including
Something for Sunday Morning
"Anger is a weed; hate is the tree." St. Augustine
No Blogging Saturday
Why one African-American Christian won't vote for Obama
[http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp].
__________
George Weigel has written the best article I've seen on the whole Obama
Catholic
mess [http://www.newsweek.com/id/163896/page/1]. From the conclusion:
> Biden is
Brews You Can Use
Pass me that Mad Dog 20/20 and the ultrasound machine: An entrepreneur claims
to
have invented a machine that uses ultrasound technology to turn a cheap bottle
of rot gut into a vintage-tasting wine in a matter of minutes
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3115492/
From the Notebooks
I earlier said The Great Society and today's college aid programs for single
mothers are manifestly unjust in their "actual workings on the individual
level." Such programs are couched in terms of "social justice." Their proponents
would argue that the programs correct previous manifest