Miscellaneous

The reality show “Bachelor in Paradise” has been cleared of the assault charges and it's going to resume filming. The news was celebrated today by ABC, the contestants, and the chlamydia virus.

Brews You Can Use Neat blog post by a Cleveland-area priest: Coffee, Front Porches, and Church Whispers [http://clevelandpriest.blogspot.com/2017/06/coffee-front-porches-and-church-whispers.html] . It's not about drinking, but it's about the need for parishes to create community and places to meet ("front porches&

John Zmirak draws on my favorite Dostoyevsky book . . . and asks a question that has to be taken seriously by anyone who believes in the spiritual world: > Is Today's Far Left 'Possessed'? | The Stream https://t.co/HlWhbgVW8Y > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) June 21, 2017

The operation edges closer:

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the first day of summer. Okay, not really. Summer apparently starts at 12:24 tomorrow morning. But we're really close. Wow, finally, a sports franchise stands up to the LGBTQIXYZ whatever brown shirt community: St. Louis Cardinals Resist LGBTQ Outcry Over 'Christian Day.

Miscellaneous Rambling I sigh relief. I think the season of busy-ness is over. Although office life promises to stay ramped at difficult levels, the graduation season is over. Michael's graduation party went well, and I survived the hangover, even getting to confession the next afternoon to "clear

> "One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputation." > — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) June 17, 2017 [https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/876123036575039488]

For well over a year, I've looked for The Lost Weekend [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Weekend_(film)] on my Roku, but I've never been able to find it. Then last Saturday night, I stumbled across it on TCM. I was pretty stoked. I