Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling The official (albeit rough) figures from the graduation party: 98 adults (21 or over), 15 or so little kids (pre-teen), and about 60 teens. Alcohol consumed (roughly): four fifths of hard liquor, two bottles of wine, and six cases of beer. So, approximately 250 drinks total (170 beers,

A TDE reader sent this along, with the observation that they probably just changed the label on their Bud Light cans: > Anheuser-Busch brewery cans water instead of beer to aid Texas and Oklahoma flood victims | http://t.co/mTsyhAKksg > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) May 30, 2015 [https://twitter.

Whew, the metaphysical hangover. We had Jack's grad party last night. Whatta whirl . . . last night and this morning. The thing I hate most about parties is that I always, without fail, wake up groggy and thinking about all the guests I didn't even say "hi&

BYCU So I'm talking with my oldest son, Alex, on my laptop. It's evening and he's drinking from a big, funky-looking can. I ask him what it is, and he says it's something his local beer seller recommended: Stiegl breakfast beer. I

It looks like The University Bookman [http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/about/] is now offered on Kindle . . . or at least two of them. $2.99 apiece. I just bought the Edmund Burke issue.

Nock Notions Albert Jay Nock on the Great Fiction upon which The Washington Party relies for its increasingly-aggressive power grabs against society: "Republicanism permits the individual to persuade himself that the State is his creation, that State action is his action, that when it expresses itself it expresses him,

Chesterton Short(s) A GKC sighting of sorts, through Terry Teachout, editor of the Second Mencken Chrestomathy, writing about Chesterton's contemporary (and occasional critic) H.L. Mencken: "He is the apostle of common sense." Was this an intentional parallel to GKC? I haven't the

Top Ten List: You might have a book obsession if: 10. You'll never be able to finish all the books you've started. 9. You're kinda surprised there's not a medical term to describe a disordered erotic attraction to books. 8. You don&

Tuesday Trifles Good weekend here. I got all my garden stuff in, except those items that I am purposefully holding back to produce a staggered harvest. * * * * * * * I had a rough time with tomatoes and sweet peppers this year. Only 30 of my sweet peppers germinated and my tomato seedlings don&