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Brews You Can Use

I subscribed to New York magazine last year on a lark. I've grown to greatly enjoy the provincial liberal rag. Its liberalism is more understood than preached . . . more of a worldview than a religion . . . so it's tolerable if occasionally nauseating. Anyway, I gleaned this drinking anecdote

Brews You Can Use

Beer pong is getting even bigger: Vegas now has $50,000 World Series of Beer Pong (in its fourth year), and it's leaving college campuses and going mainstream: > More bars are setting up tables and weekly tournaments. A new documentary, "Last Cup: Road to the World

Tuesday Miscellany

Allen Barra published a piece about GKC in the Wall Street Journal last week [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123032986340736063.html]. When I edited Gilbert Magazine, Barra would occasionally write to me and even sent me an autographed copy of one of his books. Needless to say, this doesn'

Brews You Can Use

One of the best things about growing older: No winter blues. I'll miss the holidays, but I'm thoroughly ready to settle back to normalcy and to take a long winter nap. A handful of these Otters might be perfect. "The new special release is a

Brews You Can Use

Light holiday blogging continues. Just this post from Tim J: I don't want to catch anybody not drinking [http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/2008/12/i-dont-want-to-catch-anybody-not-drinking.html] . A little Belloc exhortation on the evils of abstaining. > "For who can be properly nourished, if indeed

Something for the Eve of Christmas Eve

Advent is a penitential season. It doesn't get nearly the respect Lent does in this regard, but I try to do something. This year, I resolved to read all the daily entries in Francis Fernandez' meditation series, In Conversation with God. It didn't go well.

From the Notebooks

Good Christians are many, if it weren't for all those people: the whiners, the manipulators, the crooks, the liars, the heretics, the greedy. But Christ put up with all of them and remained sinless. The Bible recounts disciple buffoonery and selfishness, yet Christ communed with them, loved them,

Brews You Can Use

Christmas tree made up of Heineken beer bottles in Vietnam last year [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132]. [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132] __________ [http://www.realbeer.com/holidayblog/?p=132] The best reason to diet yet: So you don't have to drink this stuff. A

Wednesday Miscellany

Smile: You're not an island, and sin is not isolate. What you do makes a difference, whether you know it or not. Science is beginning to get it: happiness is contagious [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/christakis_fowler08/christakis_fowler08_index.html] . > "We found that

From the Notebooks

The Catholic Evolutionist on LSD I was there when It happened, back when history really started, when memories began to do more than log instincts, when art started and language took its first steps to bridge minds, when evolution ended and living began. Don't ask me how I