Miscellaneous

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One of the best Catholic news pieces appeared last weekend at National Catholic Register: Monks, Beer and Christendom [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/monks-beer-and-christendom]. It combines a handful of things that have interested me for awhile. First, it revolves around the Monks of Nursia, which I

From the Gardening Journals I had a great day last Sunday: getting the garden ready for winter. It's possibly my most pleasant task of the year: pulling up the tomato and pepper plants that were destroyed by Saturday night's freeze, adding to the compost pile, doing

Fascinating episode on EWTN Live earlier this month: "After suffering a spinal injury and praying for Cardinal Newman's intercession, Guest Deacon Jack Sullivan's healing on August 15, 2011 sparked calls for the Cardinal's beautification." Link to MP3 [http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/

Speaking of Ayn Rand (see yesterday's Rambling), I think I found another Catholic libertarian: Jay Wesley Richards. He doesn't call himself a libertarian in "Why Libertarians Need God [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/03/libertarians-and-religion.html] ," but he has clearly spent a

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, one of nature's great gifts is unfolding: the Indian Summer. We had a freeze Saturday night, followed with gorgeous weather on Sunday and a gorgeous forecast for the next ten days. It's definitely my favorite time of the year, weather-wise. * * * * * * * Interesting essay

Rough sports day yesterday. First, Meg loses her cross-country meet at the last second (18:40:9 to 18:40:7), then Michigan loses to Michigan State even though MSU, literally, held the lead 00:00 minutes of the game. I thought MSU played a decent game and I

A Random Passage “[T]he reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith's capitalist manifesto, The Wealth of Nations) was that a rising class of important people needed to enlist on their side enough Americans to defeat England, without

BYCU I love it when two hobbies come together, especially when one of the hobbies is drinking. This email I received from a TDE reader combines vodka and gardening: "So, two years ago, we bought a small hops vine, just for fun. Year 1, it grew a little but