Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Late winter blitz at the office. The phrase of the work week: catch as catch can. The fever pitch flurry of projects is numbing. Fortunately, none of it is particularly stressful, and all of it pays, so I shrug and shoulder through long hours that take me

Surely, the anti-Social Justicers at 4Chan could meme this into something hilarious: > TIL that koalas have one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal. They are so dumb, that when presented with leaves on a flat surface instead of on branches, they are

> The free market and free society don't pretend to solve all problems. They just prevent famine and tyranny. All the other effects of the Fall are still with us, and are for the Church (including every baptized Christian) to solve. > — John Zmirak (@JZmirak) March 9, 2019

Brews You Can Use This is interesting: A massive malted barley facility is moving to an area 40 minutes east of me [https://www.marketscreener.com/ANDERSONS-INC-8374/news/Andersons-Investment-group-Andersons-team-up-for-malted-barley-facility-28117117/] . Maybe I should get into the barley-growing business.

Stoicism The Stoics did not have the benefit of Christian revelation. Stoicism has been called the “porch” of Christianity. Its resignation and detachment take a person to the threshold of Christianity, but don't take him all the way into the house. Although the Stoics taught belief in a

From the Notebooks Black magic increased during the late middle ages, and not just in the imaginative zeal of inquisitors. "There is ample evidence that witch beliefs and practices did exist and that [the social pressures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries] worked to increase the actual level of

Miscellaneous Rambling Things have been a whirlwind since returning from Miami. I was able to produce the podcast, which you can listen to here [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/3/1/episode-24-miami-the-historical-buildup-to-akempis-and-miami-beach] or below, but the Show

The filming scene of the famous hotel chainsaw scene in Scarface is now a CVS: > pic.twitter.com/usWwvc8Zpd [https://t.co/usWwvc8Zpd] > — The Weekly Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 25, 2019 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/1100078685401612290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > pic.twitter.com/4olKIMezsL [https://t.co/