Miscellaneous

Rambling Whew. The new-year blitz is over. Three closings in 12 days. For the non-lawyers out there: Closings are when a business or piece of real estate changes hands. First, you sign a purchase agreement. Then the buyer does his due diligence and various other negotiations and issues

Show Notes St. Anthony the Great Feast Day Coming Up. This Friday. Keep in mind where you are in history. The Roman Empire converted to Christianity/Catholicism. Constantine ended persecution and himself converted. NOTE: He did not make Christianity the official religion. That happened about 75 years later under Theodosius,

BYCU Oh my, the drinking world is collapsing. First, I haven't yet had a drink this decade. And now the next most-manly guy in the world is drinking non-alcoholic beer: Daniel Craig's James Bond prefers non-alcoholic beer over a martini (shaken, not stirred)

Dalrymple Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to "resist" the democratic results isn't a mere semantic problem. It points to the problem with socialists in general: They aren't interested in democracy. They are interested in power. Central power. Theodore Dalrymple lays it out in this

What happened Sunday night? Gervais' monologue blew me away. What blew me away even more: quite a few cheers from the audience. More groans than cheers? Possibly, but quite a few cheers nonetheless. Joe Rogan observed recently that Hollywood has no soul, and Hollywood is slowly coming to the

I was reading David Mikics biography of Jacque Derrida [https://amzn.to/2MZTxV0] . He points out that the first large urban civilizations–like Babylon and Egypt–“used writing as an elite mechanism for social control. The secrets of the realm remained in the hands of the few who had knowledge

I asked my daughter to bring me the newspaper. she said I'm too old fashioned and brought me her iPhone. Not getting too much into details, the fly is now dead, the iPhone is broken and my daughter is crying.

Brews You Can Use Whew. The holidays come to a close. There are lots of downsides to leaving childhood, but this time of year isn't one of them. When I was a kid, I'd have the post-holiday blues. As an adult with a frantic need

“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

A guy bought his wife a beautiful diamond ring for Christmas. After hearing about this extravagant gift, a friend of his said, "I thought she wanted one of those sporty four-wheel-drive vehicles." "She did," he replied. "But where was I going to find