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How Much Liquor Can You Drink with COVID?
That's the question that faced me last night.
I have COVID. I am in quarantine, along with Marie and our two youngest kids.
I'm enjoying it. Max, the kid who tested positive, and I have made major headway
on TDE (we hope you are enjoying the
Post-Election Wednesday
If polling is an art, not a science, the folks at Quinnipiac University use
crayons.
Criminy, they weren't even close, missing Ohio by 13 points.
As of this typing, it looks like Biden is going to win the election, but polling
as science, art, or even an educated
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I Don't Love the Nightlife and I Don't Got to Boogie (Published in 2020)
But I miss the bars: An Ode During COVID
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Samuel Johnson
Like Samuel Johnson and Alicia Bridges (see title), I like a good bar.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us
Yeah, I know: Festivus is a fake holiday created by Seinfeld in 1997, when Mr.
Costanza told Kramer about the family holiday he created: Festivus.
It was, Mr. Costanza explained, a “festivus for the rest of us.”
It has since become a real “thing,”
[https://time.com/4617553/festivus-holiday-origins-seinfeld/] with
Ten Catholic Drinking Costumes Guaranteed to Impress
Halloween lands on the weekend! Far out. If you have costume parties to attend,
and you want to embrace your Catholicism, and you want to embrace the (drinking)
weekend, I have ten great ideas.
The Liberated Nun, circa 1518
This one might be hard to set up with your crowd,
The Downfall of Cecil Rhodes (11/26/2020)
Stefan Kanfer, in his book on the De Beers diamond cartel, gives Chesterton the
last word on Cecil Rhodes, who instead of promoting Western values "illustrated
almost every quality essential to the Sultan, from the love of diamonds to the
scorn of women."
The irony was, as Kanfer
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The Architecture of Speed
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
Sometimes I’m Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I’m Bauhaus.
The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. I generally want to live