Miscellaneous

A new poll came out and it found that, of all the Republican candidates, people think Donald Trump would make the best Santa Claus. In response, Chris Christie said, "Oh COME ON, what do I gotta do?"

BYCU So, I won a $25 gift certificate to our local bookstore at the office Christmas party last Friday. I went there on Saturday, looking to spend it and saw they had a single issue of Modern Drunkard Magazine [http://www.drunkard.com/] on the shelf. I bought it. Long-time

In three passages, all courtesy of Joseph Epstein: “The man I came to know,” Jones writes in his preface, “bore no resemblance to the canonical Kinsey.” Instead of a cool scientist, Jones discovered a man of missionary zeal, “a crypto-reformer who spent his every waking hour attempting to change the

A young Arab boy asks his father, "What is that weird hat you are wearing?" The father said, "Why, it's a 'chechia' because in the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun." "And what is this

"Santayana, who was very smart on the subject of the end of life, remarked that one of the reasons older people often grow grumpy about the world is that they, with the presentiment of their own death, can't see what good it can be without them in

I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said "You're obviously not listening."

So why haven't I weighed on on Trump? I don't know. Maybe I just haven't had enough time, but, like pretty much American, I've been thinking about him a lot. Here, in no particular order, are some of my thoughts: 1. I

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30 a m. Can you believe that ... 2:30 a m? Luckily for him I was still up playing my bagpipes.

Miscellaneous Rambling So I searched the TDE archives for any reference to "gaudete," and I came across this excerpt from the Monday after Gaudete Sunday: "I kinda feel like Gaudete Sunday ushered in the Advent season for me. Everything . . . was [busy]/ While at Mass Saturday night, it

“Christian joy is granted to those who understand natural joy.” Paul VI. Happy Gaudete Sunday.