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Redneck Stuff
I thought I'd heard every redneck joke under the sun, then last week while I was
in Alaska, a friend sent a batch of new ones. Since some of them revolve around
drinking, and I'm busier than a Kennedy in a cat house, I&
More issues
Kindness and Twitter
Kind Me
One of the neatest online articles I've read all year: Good Times: What's the
use in being kind? A host of benefits, it turns out.
[http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07080901.aspx] I read two
highly-interesting asides ("There's an entire
The Little Arts
Talk is Not Cheap
Ludwig van Beethoven once explained to Johann Goethe that the artist is a great
man deserves reverence. To illustrate his point, and to Goethe's flabbergasted
astonishment, Beethoven crossed his arms and rudely walked through a group of
gathered nobility.
Beethoven's impolite walk
The Return Eudemon
North to Alaska
I'm not a well-traveled man. I've never been to any continent besides North
America, and when I turned 42, I hadn't even traveled to the western United
States (a trip to Minneapolis for a Chesterton Conference and across the bridge
Something for Sunday Morning
"Worry, fear, and cowardice arise when prayer weakens."
Francis Fernandez
BYCU: Essay Edition
The Joy of Drinking
St. George he was for England,
And before he killed the dragon
He drank a pint of English ale
Out of an English flagon.
For though he fast readily
In hair-shirt or in mail,
It isn't safe to give him cakes
Unless you
Essay
Not sure what happened. Post didn't load and I have very limited net access.
Buffetting Life's Storms
The Hymns of Jimmy Buffett
I started listening to Jimmy Buffett songs when I was in law school. Though I
was ambitiously studying hard so I could find work with a powerful law firm, I
was drawn to Buffett's music because it celebrates a radically carefree
lifestyle. As
Mini-Book Reviews
Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some
originals.
Freaks in History
The poor and freaks. They'll both always be with us. Barabbas was apparently a
freak, as was Caligula. What Origen did to himself was kinda freaky, too, but
out of respect, I
From the Notebooks
The Great Idiocy
“'Please understand that we are keen to move toward a market economy,' a senior
Soviet official whose responsibility had been to provide bread to the population
of Saint Petersburg in its communist days told economist Paul Seabright, ' but
we need to understand the fundamental