Something for Sunday Morning
"Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love,
it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor."
St. Aelred of Rievaulx
Eric Scheske
A Leno
"The Atlanta International Airport is now considering shorter flushes in its
bathrooms to help cope with the drought. Shorter flushes on their toilets. Or as
Sen. Larry Craig calls that, speed dating."
Something for Saturday
"In the presence of the Gospel, Nietzsche's immediate and profound reaction
was--it must be admitted--jealousy. It does not seem to me that Nietzsche's work
can be really understood without allowing for that feeling. Nietzsche was
jealous of Christ, jealous to the point of
Brews You Can Use
This ongoing craze escaped my notice: pumpkin beer craze
[http://www.kansascity.com/food/story/338950.html].
> Although the colonists, including President George Washington, made pumpkin
beer, the seasonal brew essentially disappeared from brewers' repertoire. It
wasn't until 1986 that Bill Owens, owner of Buffalo Bill&
Recovering
I feel a lot better today, but I'm still moving slowly and using all free time
for sleep. I managed to take my children out for two of their four rounds of
trick-or-treating last night. I had hoped to break the thousand mark, but fell
shy.
The Flu
No Eudemon today. I have the flu or somethign terribly like it.
Last year, my doctor said it's not uncommon for low grade viruses to dog a
person off and on for weeks (he may have said months), with the severity of
symptoms going up and down. I&
Drinking Book to Kooky Philosopher
Gotta get it: The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey, And Song: A Spirited
Look at Catholic Life and Lore from the Apocalypse to Zinfandel.
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/082452411X/thedailyeudem-20] Only $10.17
at Amazon.
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Taking the kids to The Golden Compass? Check
Monday Miscellany
I stumbled across all sorts of interesting things this weekend:
A cool Wikipedia entry on fictional portrayals of psychopaths in literature
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_portrayals_of_psychopaths_in_literature#Dostoyevsky.27s_Crime_and_Punishment_and_The_Possessed]
;
The Crux Project's Denyse O'Leary'
Something for Sunday Morning
"Each person has a specific divine vocation. Every life that is lived without
reference to the divine plan is wasted."
Francis Fernandez
Administrative Saturday Morning
I finally got a chance to clean up my link list on the right. Dead links, blogs
that haven't added fresh content in over six weeks, links not accessible without
passwords, blogs that were recently updated to say "This blog is now closed."
They're