BYCU A TDE reader sends along perhaps the best Lenten BYCU piece of all time: Man does 46-day beer fast [http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/25/my-take-what-i-learned-from-my-46-day-beer-only-fast/?fbclid=IwAR1N3h8KzgNTUKRvmhTIqCO00FTU35jKDKpfvT9zIF6OMk0pW-F_dLRUZ3I] . When I saw the title,

Miscellaneous Rambling Good to hear: MSNBC's ratings have taken it in the shorts since its sham fear-mongering has been exposed: Maddow, who has consistently vied for the first or second top-rated cable news program, was sixth on Monday evening, down almost 500,000 total viewers from

> Breaking News @AOC [https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] claims she found a way to end world hunger pic.twitter.com/57alYs6pjc [https://t.co/57alYs6pjc] > — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) March 25, 2019 [https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1110324797806919680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Midweek Rambling The New York Times opens up a promising op-ed feature: religious philosophy wars. It runs a wholly one-sided op-ed that ridicules the idea of a God that philosophy can reason to [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/-philosophy-god-omniscience.html]. I assume

Miscellaneous Rambling Man, for some reason, that Trump dance video really cracked me up yesterday. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but I think I watched it ten times. Matt Taibbi, far from a conservative the last I checked, breaks down the farce that was RussiaGate. It&

> Okay who did this 🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/bYe5jI8S2h [https://t.co/bYe5jI8S2h] > — Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) March 24, 2019 [https://twitter.com/Cliff_Sims/status/1109962032995069952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Miscellaneous Rambling New TWE episode posted this weekend: Episode 27: Postmodernism and a Soviet Philosopher, Postmodernism and Brahman, Stylites [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/3/21/c7eipocxiqh83fts4by4mgw0pmq5ik] . Click the link to listen, or go to Stitcher, iTunes, etc. It's also posted below in a Youtube

> "While World War II may have been necessary, it was not good. It was an epic tragedy from which Americans can learn much with relevance to the present day. But learning assumes a willingness to see beyond myths. Charles Beard shows us where to begin." https://t.

Brews You Can Use March isn't good for losing weight. The weather isn't warm enough to get a lot of movement outside, birthdays, and now March Madness. Tonight (actually, this afternoon) calls for my third day of drinking this week. I'll be at a

From the Notebooks Brownson said, on a speaking tour on “The Church and the Republic” that every society is exposed to two opposite dangers: absolutism of the state and absolutism of the individual. In order to mediate between the two dangers, and give each, the state and the individual, their