Brews You Can Use

Making the best out of bad situations: A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic

From the Notebooks

"It is vain and useless to conceive either grief or joy for future things, which perhaps shall never come to pass. But it is in human nature to be deluded with such imaginations." The Imitation of Christ, Book 3, Chp. 30. Why is it in our nature to

From the Notebooks

I may have been hungover while writing this entry in 2004. Good luck: If you hear a purported absolute truth and it doesn't involve a paradox, you can assume you hear heresy. The tradition of Western philosophy to find an absolute source of knowledge–Descartes' I think

From the Notebooks

From 2002 The coming of the sixth child has been the harshest for us to accept. We finished the addition to our house a year ago, and we consider the house absolutely perfect for our seven-person family. On a scale of one-to-ten, with all things considered (including

Something for Sunday Morning

"Anger is a weed; hate is the tree." St. Augustine

No Blogging Saturday

Why one African-American Christian won't vote for Obama [http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp]. __________ George Weigel has written the best article I've seen on the whole Obama Catholic mess [http://www.newsweek.com/id/163896/page/1]. From the conclusion: > Biden is

Brews You Can Use

Pass me that Mad Dog 20/20 and the ultrasound machine: An entrepreneur claims to have invented a machine that uses ultrasound technology to turn a cheap bottle of rot gut into a vintage-tasting wine in a matter of minutes [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3115492/

From the Notebooks

I earlier said The Great Society and today's college aid programs for single mothers are manifestly unjust in their "actual workings on the individual level." Such programs are couched in terms of "social justice." Their proponents would argue that the programs correct previous manifest

The Wednesday Eudemon

From the Notebooks It is often repeated that a prophet has no honor in his own village–or family, or neighborhood, or country. If he has no honor there, it's because the people closest to him are acquainted with his ordinariness, and it blocks out the greatness, like

Tuesday Miscellany

Nice day yesterday for the portfolio. How long will it continue? I'm just hoping long enough to get my money back. I'm not optimistic in the long run. From Ron Paul yesterday in Slate [http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2008/10/13/sickness-unto-debt]