Wednesday was "National Drink Beer Day." Wednesday isn't a bad drinking day. When I was in college, it was Number 3 on list of party days (Friday, Saturday, Wednesday, Thursday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday . . . at least in my cloudy estimation/recollection). But still, you'd think

"The reality of scheming, planning, wondering, planning, uncertainty as to what to do. The lot of most people. It occupies so much of one's thoughts, one can well see how people can think these days so little of God." Day "It is so hard to

Gavin McInnes makes an interesting assertion: Inner-city life isn't dangerous [http://takimag.com/article/rioting_the_unbeatable_high_gavin_mcinnes/print#axzz4LMpFjYt7] . It's non-stop fun and adolescent behavior, and the riots are merely the ultimate high. I think he overstates the case, but he has a

Funny stuff. PG-13.

Miscellaneous Rambling If you missed it, Bishop Chaput's lecture earlier this month at Notre Dame is a must read [http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/politics-and-the-church/sex-family-and-the-liberty-of-the-church.html] . Excerpt: "But here's my larger point: We've reached a moment when our political thinking and

Bring in the rioters > Kicking net 1, Odell Beckham 0 https://t.co/b2sZ76tFoP > — Barely In Bounds (@BarelyIn) September 25, 2016 [https://twitter.com/BarelyIn/status/780132013638610944]

It's only a matter of time until we kill in the name of goodness. Oh wait, we've been doing that on a massive scale for the past 150 years. > Want to Slow Climate Change? Stop Having Babies, Bioethicist Travis Rieder Says - Bloomberg https://t.

Brews You Can Use: Bites I drank a lot of mojito last Saturday evening. It gave me a pretty bad hangover, considering that I stopped drinking early and pounded about fifty ounces of water afterwards. I don't know if it was the rum or other factors at play.

> What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us

Skittles or immigrants? I'm not sure what the fuss is about. Was the analogy flawed? Of course: all analogies are, by their nature, flawed, or else they wouldn't be analogies. Was the analogy "disgusting" or inhuman, as Democrats and liberal Catholics [https://twitter.com/