The Evening Eudemon
The man who Tweeted the attack that captured bin Laden (with Tweets)
[http://www.zerohedge.com/article/meet-man-who-live-tweeted-bin-laden-operation-unknowingly]
. Kinda interesting.
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Monday
Ah, the small pleasures. Better yet, the free pleasures. Especially the free
pleasures that help defeat a shortcoming.
Here's the situation: I'm reading an article or a book that makes reference to a
book that sounds really good. For the past ten years, I've
Something for Sunday Morning
“Without humility, there is no way of conquering anger.”
St. John Climacus
Friday
BYCU
Man, if I'm ever cool again, I'm going to buy a beverage refrigerator. Two of my
neighbors have 'em in their garage, but with seven kids, my garage is devoted to
a regular fridge (with top freezer) and an extra freezer. I'm
Wednesday
Making Land
"They ain't makin' more of it." I hear that statement at least twice a year,
usually when a client is buying real estate. I normally nod in sage agreement.
Which has always been an ingenuous thing to do, since I agreed with the
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Gasoline has significantly dropped in price. When priced in silver. Not a bad
way to think about prices, according to the Founding Fathers . . . more>>
[http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-silver-bullet/87316/]
Mainlining? Is that when heroin selling goes mainstream? No, but
Easter
"When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the
world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of
its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or
watch a man
Holy Saturday
Nyssa, Tolkien, and Gibson
By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had
swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of
nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the
words of St. Gregory of Nyssa:
Good Friday
“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that
their sufferings might be like His.” George MacDonald
"The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat." G.K. Chesterton
On those who hate Christianity: "They do not dislike the Cross
Holy Thursday
"[I]n the agony of Gethsemane the ultimate consequences of our sin had their
hour. . . . God permitted his Son to taste the human agony of rejection and
plunge towards the abyss. . . Gethsemane was the hour in which Jesus' human
heart and mind experienced the ultimate odium of the