Sign Me Up
A watch that lets you know when your wife is fertile [http://www.ovwatch.com/].
Anything to make NFP easier is appreciated. Lots of guys say it's easy. I say
(i) they're delusional, or (ii) they've been married fewer than six years. It'
Eric Scheske
Evicted
Anyone got a lead on good housing in SW Michigan? I asked my wife what she was
going to get me for Boss' Day, and . . .
Brews You Can Use: Monday Edition
Oh man. This sounds nasty [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=517586]:
> Miller Brewing Co. is launching a new chocolate-flavored brand for the holiday
season as the company seeks to capitalize on the growing thirst for craft and
specialty beers.
(This story couldn't wait
The Non-Story?
Here's the lead grabber:
> Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion
of U.S. households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an
analysis of new census figures by The New York Times.
> The American Community Survey, released this month
Something for Sunday Morning
> The senses, the memory, and the imagination must be guarded, not only against
things which are a direct temptation to sin, but against everything which may
engage the mind in passing interests when it should be bent upon the unseen
realities. Ths intellect too must be called off from
A Reader Writes
One of my most astute readers questions my post about President Grant:
> Where did that piece about Grant come from??? Grant was born in 1822, was 41 in
1863 and, at that time, was commanding the Union forces besieging Vicksburg.
Incidentally, his wife's name was Julia Dent.
Raising Daughters
Doug Giles has a good series going: Raising Girls that Pimps and Thugs Will
Hate. [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles]. Good stuff. It's revolves
around a list of ten suggestions.
Excerpt from first column
[http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2006/09/30/raising_girls_that_pimps_
Dreher
Strange days indeed. Two days ago, Rod Dreher wrote a lengthy piece about his
conversion to Orthodoxy. When I checked the post yesterday, he had received over
250 comments in his com box. I didn't read them (I read the first five, then
stopped). He said some of
The Weekend Eudemon
I'm moving mighty slow this morning. I was up late (1:30). I doubt there'll be
any blogging today. As a token of appreciation for your understanding, I offer
this anecdote:
The following classified ran in the nineteenth century:
> Farmer, aged 41, desires to correspond
Brews You Can Use IV: Poetry Edition
A reader sends this piece from the 1500s [http://www.bartleby.com/40/35.html]
along:
Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both hand and foot go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough
Whether it be new or old.
But if 1 that I may have