Miscellaneous

The holidays and technical problems have combined to cripple TDE. Regular blogging will hopefully resume tomorrow.

Today is the Feast of St. Stephen. The good old Catholic Church loves its paradoxes: The day of intense joy followed by a day of sobering reality (with the bloody feasts of the Holy Innocents and Thomas Beckett coming shortly). Joy and martyrdom, love and hatred of love, Everlasting Life

“He rules the world with truth and grace.” –Isaac Watts ++ “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” –Charles Dickens ++ “The Incarnation”¦illuminates and orders all other phenomena, explains both our laughter and our logic, our fear of the dead and our knowledge

Looking for ways to stand out this Christmas? Here are some classy ideas: Replace all your manger scene characters with Star Wars figures. Hit on women while caroling at the local old folks home. Blare “I'm Mr. Heat Miser” from your house all night on Christmas Eve. Make

More Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the second-shortest day of the year (well, tied for second). * * * * * * * I don't know if I'm embarrassed or proud that I did most of my Christmas gift buying at the liquor store. * * * * * * * The IRS mileage rate is going down to 54 cents

A couple were in a busy shopping center just before Christmas. The wife suddenly noticed that her husband was missing. She called him on the mobile. The wife said "Where are you? You know we have lots to do!" He said, "You remember the jewelers we went

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the shortest day of the year. * * * * * * * It's the day when the sun stops waning and starts exerting its strength, hence I suppose the Roman holiday, The Birth of the Unconquered Sun (of Sol Invictus). There are lots of arguments about whether the Catholic Church

Wow. One of the more disturbing untold stories about our nation's history: > The Nazi Kid From Brooklyn - Taki's Magazine https://t.co/MIVGW0zvGy via @tealdit [https://twitter.com/tealdit] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 18, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/677961784955969538]

I referenced Modern Drunkard Magazine's Clash of the Tightest yesterday. It's an enjoyable feature, but it's often hard to find the results. After much searching, I found a complete tournament bracket from the first tournament at this page [http://drunkard.com/issues/04_03/

A man in Houston, Texas, is in some hot water after shutting down traffic on one of the busiest freeways in the United States so he could propose to his girlfriend. If you think that's inconvenient, their wedding will take place on the day before Thanksgiving in the