Miscellaneous

The choice (if it can even be called a choice, since it's not intentional) that most people make to delve into all the banality is ridiculous, but it has become the crux of contemporary living: The harshness of reality articulated by Camus, smoothed over by the banalities that

Episode 61: Psychological Disruptions and the Reformation and Alexander the Great Show notes here [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/2/2/episode-61-psychological-disruptions-and-the-reformation-and-alexander-the-great] . First Segment: The Rise of Gnosticism Did you know all reformers were born after the year 1480? I'm talking about the Reformation of 1517, when

Brews You Can Use My apologies for the lack of posts this week. Marie and I are moving into my parents' house. We have a lot to do in order to get it ready. She's been carrying the bulk of the load, but this week, I had

SHOW NOTES First Segment I'm working my way through Lawrence Cahoone's 700-page anthology of postmodernism. He starts the book out by excerpting key passages from writers who helped frame the modern mind, whose main gist, as I read Cahoone is: Modernity was obsessed with reasoning. Rationality.

That scene was shot at Neir's Tavern in Queens. It might be the oldest bar in New York City. It almost shut down, but thanks to some help from the City, whose red tape was apparently indirectly forcing its closure, it's going to stay open. You

Gay Thursday I discovered this evening that my backyard might be responsible for the stunning victories of the LGBT movement over the past 10 years. The Stryker Corporation out of little Kalamazoo, Michigan, is largely to blame [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/01/the-billionaires-behind-the-lgbt-movement] . It's a stunning

A few semi-noteworthy tweets from my surfing last night. The sad thing is, I found only three such semis in 20 minutes of scrolling through Twitter. Learn something new every day: There's a wild horse problem out west. I saw at Twitter [https://twitter.com/PERCtweets/status/1207746954467430400]

Show Notes Today is the feast day of St. Macarius of Egypt. At least with the Eastern Orthodox. I don't believe the RCC recognizes him as a saint. He is one of the men who followed St. Anthony into the desert that we talked about in the last

BYCU Mid-January. Winter storm warnings afoot. What else is there to do but drink? Apparently, Anheuser-Busch agrees. For every inch of snow that falls, it's offering $1 off select Busch products in these cities [https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/01/16/busch-beer-snow-day-promotion-beer-prices-drop-per-inch-snow/4496855002/] : Des Moines,