> This is one reason that many Eastern Orthodox Christians find it hard to take the idea of reunification with Rome seriously: liturgical instability and what it means. https://t.co/infnz8oPrg > — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1048248310304260098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use One of the more humorous drinking things I saw this week: Modern Drunkard Magazine's "Today's Reason to Drink" is now an Alexa Skill. Link [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Drunkard-Todays-Reason-Drink/dp/B07817K38V/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-skills&ie=UTF8&

Midgets to Seeds Alright, I may have scraped a new low: I bought tickets to see Extreme Midget Wrestling [https://extrememidgetwrestling.com/] in Detroit later this fall. All four sons wanted to go and were available to go, so I decided to make a men's night out of

Miscellaneous Rambling The FBI finishes its investigation today. I like David Stockman's angle, which pretty much says, "Everyone sucks." Excerpt, "]W]hy is the Senate of the United States (and now the FBI, too) wasting its time investigating the antics of a handful of party

From the Notebooks Black magic, the soul killing of Faustus, and political magic come together in abortion. Abortion contains it all. It reflects the ugliness of black magic. It preserves the career path of the Faustian. It's a tool in progressives' attempts to establish a better society

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to Saint Week, which is the introduction to Saint Month. Today, everyone's favorite saint: St. Therese Lisieux. Thursday, everyone's other favorite saint: St. Francis of Assisi. Other notables this week: Bruno, Thomas the Apostle, and your Guardian Angel. On Wednesday, our Eastern brethren

Bullets Whew, I'm back off the wagon. The temperatures have plunged, and so has my dehydration level. I threw back a healthy number of drinks last night, and I feel pretty bad this morning, but it's a fitting hangover: I'm not on death'

Brews You Can Use I tuned in for about three minutes of the Kavanaugh testimony. It was hard to watch, but at least I got to see one Senator inquire in his youthful drinking exploits. That was enough for me to conclude it was all pomp and circusness. There were

Circus Day C-SPan starts coverage at 9:45. I'm ashamed to admit, I wish I could watch . . . and I might end up streaming it from my computer at work for a little while. This is nothing but soap opera dressed up as politics. Or to draw from Russell

And More Rambling Wow, Der Spiegel is even turning on Pope Francis. Vatican Cardinal: Pope Francis Is 'Ice-Cold, Cunning Machiavellian' [https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/24/vatican-cardinal-pope-francis-ice-cold-cunning-machiavellian/] > According to Der Spiegel, Francis, who started as a “brilliant reformer,” now threatens to squander his legacy because