Miscellaneous

Brews You Can Use I'm battling my first cold of the season (count one's blessings) and am awfully jammed at the office, but I plan on drinking tonight. I never give up alcohol for Lent. Alcohol, if approached correctly, is practically a sacramental. I don'

Chocolate maker Hershey is reportedly expecting to cut its global workforce by about 15 percent. That's right, for the first time ever, chocolate is giving up people for Lent.

Disney announced that it's featuring its first openly gay character in the upcoming live-action film “Beauty and the Beast.” Which explains why they're changing the title of the movie to “Beauty and Her Longtime Roommate Janine.” Antarctica reported its highest temperature in history at 64 degrees,

Wow, a Solovyov sighting: "Vladimir Soloviev, the Mystic Admired by Popes [http://m.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/soloviev-the-mystic-admired-by-popes#.WLdcp28rLIV] ." Those are about as common as, say, Max Beerbohm or Orestes Brownson sightings. The piece is a bit choppy, but not too bad. Excerpt: > “Repeatedly, Soloviev pointed out

At last night's Oscars, a film producer who appeared in the “In Memoriam” montage, turns out she's alive. Even worse, she's scratching loudly at the roof of her coffin. New research finds that people who have ADHD literally have different brains. When told this,

More Miscellaneous Rambling My daughter went to high school with a Mexican girl who gave up food for Lent. True story. I gotta believe she drank a lot of smoothies and such, but heck if I know. Does anybody know of any good, balanced books on the GMO food debate?

Miscellaneous Rambling Lent nears. I've never been a big fan of Mardi Gras, though. Excess on the eve of fast makes the fast much harder. Oh sure, I do a bit of it, but I'm not a big fan. Every year, the Mardi Gras coverage makes

Expect the New Left to show up with pepper spray and monodrone chants to drown him out: > “As Christians, we're offering a salvific message in a therapeutic culture. It's a tough sale.” https://t.co/7BqEZPDei0 > — Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) February 26, 2017 [https:

> Ikea releases free design for a garden sphere that sustainably feeds a neighborhood https://t.co/0IpjOud7Xi # > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/834180533731078145]