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Brews You Can Use

All Beer Items Today Another great old ad, perfect for drinking Friday. I drank a lot of Blatz as a young man, but never got it this way . . . though goodness knows I tried to talk my girlfriends into it! (Just kidding. No lectures about impurity needed.) * * * * * * * Boston Beer Company, the

Thursday

A Few Quick Things Worked until after 8:00 last night, then sat in the basement until 10:00 under threat of a tornado warning (man, our town's tornado alarm is eerie-sounding . . . which is a good thing, of course). It's the third time this year

Wednesday

Teens to Oil That's the teen mission group from my church this week. My son is in the upper-lefthand corner. My daughter is in the lower-righthand corner. The mission is in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I guess they're in a pretty rough section of town. Abbie

Tuesday

My two oldest kids are at Catholic Heart Work Camp this week. My middle daughter was at a friend's for the day/night. The house hasn't been clean in months. So we bribed the four remaining kids: work hard to pick up the house, and we&

Monday

Miscellany Monday Happy Summer. Enjoy the longest day of the year. * * * * * * * I love historical ancedotes, and this is one of the better ones I've heard recently: "Apocryphal story about Enrique Fermi, probably about other professors as well: student comes into Fermi's office, surprised to see

Something for Sunday Morning

"Let us not think that in another place, in another situation we would be ready to follow Our Lord more closely . . . The fruits of sanctity Our Lord expects are those produced in and from the environment in which we find ourselves, here and now: tiredness, sickness, family, the job

Brews You Can Use

Beer profile: Trappist ales [http://blog.beeriety.com/2010/06/16/style-profile-trappist-ale/]. Good stuff (the article, but the beer too). * * * * * * * I used to drink copious amounts of beer and watch the VHS of the Blue Brothers. I didn't realize I was engaged in a quasi-

Thursday

Horror in Different Forms Old ads like this one crack me up. * * * * * * * "FDA: 'Female Viagra' falls short [http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9GCIV4O0&show_article=1]." Well, yeah. They don't have penises. * * * * * * * What would we do without scientific studies? "In

Slow Blogging Wednesday

Ya gotta like Robert Higgs. He loathes big government, and we are undergoing some of the biggest government growth in modern history. I also gotta believe he's not terribly optimistic about the economy. Yet he has some advice for everyone who is bracing for economic Armageddon: Chill out.

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