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BYCU This article had great humor potential: 19 Tips for Staying Catholic when you go to a Bar [http://en.catholic-link.com/2015/05/11/19-tips-for-being-catholic-when-you-go-to-a-bar/] . Unfortunately, the author is serious about giving tips to young Catholic professionals who

BYCU The best drinking story of the month so far: Ale mail [http://www.cleveland.com/drinks/index.ssf/2014/12/beer_trade_underground_and_ill.html#incart_river] . "Some beer aficionados have turned to mailing beers with each other. So a person in, say, Arizona who has access

On Bullying "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." That easily ranks in my top ten of GKC quotes. It's from Part Two of The Everlasting Man (yet another GKC book that I want to read

Brews You Can Use Okay, this is frustrating: Only A Fraction Of The Population Has The Genotype That Makes Moderate Alcohol Consumption Heart Healthy [http://www.inquisitr.com/1612099/only-a-fraction-of-the-population-has-the-genotype-that-makes-moderate-alcohol-consumption-heart-healthy/] . According to the story, a

Truth Will Out A vapid but important piece showed up on the front page of Reddit on Sunday: Why the Internet is slowly strangling religion [http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/why_the_internet_is_slowly_strangling_religion_partner/] . It originally appeared on AlterNet, then Salon picked it up.

BYCU An old friend sends me this piece: The Cold Logic of Drunk People [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Vox%20Newsletter%20All&utm_campaign=vox%20sentences%2010%2F27%2F2014]

Ruminations on the Fall of Rome [I really like Belloc, but his style, though no doubt superb, is out-dated. Here I re-phrase a few pages from Chapter II of Europe and the Faith.] In order to understand how the Catholic Church viewed itself, we first need to eliminate