Wednesday
I'm kind of stunned by this video:
But I'm not stunned for the reason stated by lifesite news: "Fr. Larry Richards
condemns parents of large, daily mass going families."
I don't think he is. I think he is singling out one family
More issues
Tuesday
More Miscellaneous Rambling
A few interesting tidbits from Reddit's "Today I Learned" feature:
"TIL Mount Everest is so inundated with waste, including 26,500 lbs of human
excrement, each season that the Nepalese gov't now requires each climber to pack
out 8 kg
Monday
Miscellaneous Rambling
New episode posted: California
[https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/4/5/california]: LA,
Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Soledad,
Altadena, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach, Anaheim: The entire podcast
episode is dedicated to California. Well, the entire podcast, minus a few
detours. Youtube
Saturday
> "Conservatives who took in free-market ideology with their mother's milk should
strongly reconsider their views....The stale old GOP view that Big Business Is
Always Right And Big Government Is Always Wrong is completely idiotic today."
https://t.co/zsww6t6XeO
> — The American Conservative (@amconmag)
Friday
The main meeting room at the Hearst Castle is set up like you might find it if
you were walking in for a gathering in the 1920s, including this tray of
cocktails.
> A cocktail setting, circa 1920s, at the Hearst Castle pic.twitter.com/KWGTC2mv5q
[https://t.co/KWGTC2mv5q]
The Return Eudemon
We got back last night at midnight from a packed trip to California. We spent
time in LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz,
Soledad, Altadena, Pasadena, Venice Beach, and Anaheim. An endurance test or a
vacation? I'm still trying to decide.
> It'
Wednesday
From the Notebooks
Marx prohibited any discussion of first things, realizing that they ineluctably
lead back to God. Marx was so fearful of questions about transcendence that Eric
Voegelin described him as a spiritually diseased man who suffered from
“logophobia.” Eric Voegelin, From Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke University
Press, 1975)
Tuesday
From the Notebooks
The examples of Russia's tendency to absorb other cultures are numerous. The
earliest years of Russian history show an influence from Finnish races, steppe
peoples, the Greeks, Persia, and the Vikings. After Prince Vladimir's baptism in
988, Russia became heavily influenced by Byzantium.
Hippies in Northern California: Living Off the Grid
Though professing to be radicals, many hippie women proudly recalled their lives as similar to the experiences of the paragon of American conservative virtue: the pioneer woman. Ayala Talpai, who lived off the land with her husband and five children, remembered that when it was “time for supper, I’d
Monday
From the Notebooks
Dr. Carroll published the first volume of this projected-seven volume set in
1985. Called The Founding of Christendom, it took the reader from Genesis to
Emperor Constantine, whose conversion in 313 made Christianity the official
religion of the Roman Empire and brought Christianity to center stage. The