Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to ordinary time. First week. The brown volume. * * * * * * * Marie redecorated our family room (courtesy of insurance moneys from flood damage last fall). She and my eldest daughter concluded that the blue volume of the breviary fit into the decor. Hopefully, the brown volume fits as well. * * * * * * * I

> A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live & begins to live. -Thomas Merton pic.twitter.com/gmH1Lwgq5B [https://t.co/gmH1Lwgq5B] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) January 6, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/684600080007958529]

H.I.F: Interesting Warning: I think hell has frozen over. A politician in Europe has finally stated the obvious truth: > Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico formally stood up to the Brussels supergovernment juggernaut and said his government will not allow Muslims to create "a compact community,"

I implied a bit ago that Dalrymple seemed to have lost some zing on his essays, but he appears to be back on track. He penned this excellent piece [http://takimag.com/article/the_will_to_outrage_theodore_dalrymple/print#axzz3uiv8Uh9S] a few weeks ago, then followed it up with

"[A new study out of Stanford] found that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and it drops off so much after 55 hours that there's no point in working any more. That's right, people who work as much as 70