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Brews You Can Use

Is this Brews You Can Use or Family Hour? It's BYCU, but these are the reasons I drink. Actually, they're the reasons this isn't a 24/7 drinking blog. I drank far (far, far) more before I became a father. I think the twenty-something

Tuesday Miscellany

A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]. > We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of a

BYCU

That's me, 43. Today. I left work early yesterday to celebrate my birthday eve . . . and insisted everyone else celebrate as well. My daughter Meg (Octavia, who received a four-day birthday celebration and three parties) objected that there is no such thing as "birthday eve," but the

Tuesday Miscellany

Tumultuous times, the end times, the odd times, the grab a bottle and chill out by yourself times. Random headlines from today's Drudge [http://www.drudgereport.com/]: Obama pushes community 'health centers'...SUIT SEEKS TO FORCE GOVERNMENT TO EXTEND BENEFITS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES...Fertility clinic offers

Brews You Can Use

This might be a 2009 first: Drinking while writing BYCU. I used to do it regularly. Truth revealed: in the early days, BYCU was normally written after a few hours at the drinking club or, at a minimum, a few hours of front porch drinking. After I felt sufficiently steeled,

The Post-Christian Age?

Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist anymore, except as a weird-looking symbol on some people's foreheads? I have five children that are old enough to participate in organized activities. Four

Brews You Can Use

A real lady's man, there. Men will say just about anything to get a beer. Let's see, there's also "I'll give you a thousand bucks if you get me a beer," and "I'll stop making fun of

Brews You Can Use

Finally, some change I can believe in: "The Beer Institute and the Brewers Association today applauded members of the United States House of Representatives for the introduction of H.R. 836 the Brewers Excise and Economic Relief (BEER) Act, which effectively returns the federal beer excise tax back to

Brews You Can Use

Not much today for drinking news. I went home sick yesterday from the office, with the result that I need to put in a full day today (I normally work from my home on Fridays). I do my BYCU blogging Friday mornings, but this week, that morning needs to be

Brews You Can Use

Tonight, I drink. It's my Dad's anniversary of his discharge from the Marines. I gave him a "dinner and drinks" certificate for Christmas. He's cashing it in for this most auspicious occasion. I talked to him yesterday, and he wants to go