Regular blogging resumes tomorrow. > Why young Catholics are drawn to tradition https://t.co/m5T2HPpM6d > — Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) August 31, 2017 [https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/903253148265062401]

> pic.twitter.com/4rf1ciIXd2 [https://t.co/4rf1ciIXd2] > — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) September 1, 2017 [https://twitter.com/JohnStossel/status/903678143147454464]

> Attacking faithful Christians for God's 6,000-year teaching on #LGBT [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBT?src=hash] is like blaming the surgeon general for "making" smoking harmful. > — John Zmirak (@JZmirak) September 1, 2017 [https://twitter.com/JZmirak/status/903656834288025600]

Brews You Can Use A sad BYCU. We take Michael to college today. Life marches on inexorably. It beats not marching, of course, but it's still melancholic. The occasion will no doubt call for a few drinks this evening, once we get back and plunk ourselves down after

Miscellaneous Rambling Here's a story about a Russian con artist who ripped off investors for well over a billion dollars [https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-how-a-russian-con-artist-is-running-a-m/f-f4152ca8e8%2Fbuzzfeed.com] . The thing I found fascinating: Many of his victims were from Nigeria. Nigeria is the land of fraudsters. I remember

Miscellaneous Rambling I took Jack and Michael (3rd and 4th kids) out for dinner last night. Of course, they had plans for the evening, so we had to eat early, at 5:00. Which I don't mind, but the double gin and tonics took an early toll on

> UC: That will be $15,000 For what? UC: For security Security against what? UC: Violence Violence by whom? UC: Ushttps://t.co/8FPouIlCHW > — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 29, 2017 [https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/902566692462538753]

Bullets *I guess we'll find out if slander is afforded immunity status: Christian Group Sues SPLC and Amazon Over 'Hate Group' Designation [https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/08/23/d-james-kennedy-ministries-sues-splc-guidestar-and-amazon-for-defamation/] . **If there's an ounce of justice left in the system, the leftist Southern Poverty

Miscellaneous Rambling Wow, Hurrican Harvey turned out to be historic: It's the first time since the advent of The Weather Channel that a tropical storm has been under-hyped. Worth three minute of your life: Keynesian Economics and the Great Depression [http://blog.hillsdale.edu/online-courses/keynesian-economics-and-the-great-depression?appeal_code=