Miscellaneous

> Anger snowballs into anger, calm snowballs into calm. https://t.co/CZkqeqsXx0 > — Daily Zen (@dailyzen) August 28, 2016 [https://twitter.com/dailyzen/status/769984650068590592]

Brews You Can Use The summer wraps up. As always, it's been a long, hectic one, but I'm sad to see it come to an end. Fortunately, I'm an autumn fan. I love everything about the fall: good sleeping weather, the color, cooler days,

In honor of the last good drinking weekend of the summer, I'm running back-to-back drinking items. This one isn't really "BYCU." Rather, it's brews you could've used . . . back before the 18th Amendment was repealed: 10 Fascinating Facts About Prohibition Speakeasies

Sowell's latest, writing about the University of Chicago's resistance to the PC Fascists and its history of bucking conventional idiocy [https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/08/thomas-sowell/pushback-campus-cultural-marxism/] . Excerpt: > At Harvard, not only have invited speakers been shouted down and sometimes assaulted, even a Harvard

Miscellaneous Rambling Heard on "Open Line Wednesday" with Mitch Pacwa: St. Jerome struggled with lust. Every time he was tempted, he studied Hebrew. He became perhaps the greatest Hebrew scholar over the course of 1,500 years. If a few bright men applied the same principles to their

Miscellaneous Rambling My two youngest start school today. Michigan public schools don't start until September 6th, but my diocese has apparently yielded to the largely fictional notion that more schooling equals better schooling, which is like concluding that, the more you eat, the stronger you get. Don'

> Because who better to represent "happily ever after"? pic.twitter.com/qF9rewga7z [https://t.co/qF9rewga7z] > — Joanna Wyld (@notesuponnotes) August 23, 2016 [https://twitter.com/notesuponnotes/status/768143944127488000]

> Without submission to concrete authorities, the self becomes its own magisterium–But this is a lonely and sad thing.https://t.co/8I8eI15eeQ > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) August 27, 2016 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/769565238379241472] > The Nones' reluctance to commit to organized religion may also stem

Hopelessly behind in life and office, so no time for blogging today. Just this quip to keep in mind as you try to live Escriva's injunction to make life more pleasant for others while drinking with them this weekend: “Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in

One of those passages worth pondering: "One of the troubles with love is that it gets buried in the debris of life." Dorothy Day