Miscellaneous

Health officials in countries affected by Ebola are encouraging people to stop shaking hands, and instead give an “Ebola handshake,” which is when you bump elbows with someone. That would be a great idea if they hadn't spent the past five years telling us to sneeze into our

Nock "recognized no substantive difference between the various governments clashing during World War II. 'Rooseveltism, Hitlerism, Stalinism, are all only local variants of the common doctrine that man has no natural rights but only such as are created for him by the state . . . [this is] State absolutism, formulated

H.I.F. "I want to issue a special summons to men, especially fathers, husbands, and priests. The summons is simple: be a man. We need men in these dark days, men who will heroically speak and act, men who will announce the truth and insist upon it wherever

All Souls Day [http://www.catholic.org/saints/allsouls/]. One of my favorite non-obligatory feast days. I tell my wife that November 1st will be the day people remember me. My logic: Chesterton said "The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule [http://www.

> 7 Things Every Protestant Should Know About Catholicism - Thirsting for Truth http://t.co/QecoAvIaWx > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) November 1, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/528637577914372096]

Another great passage from Epstein's Snobbery. He first quotes from Kurt Andersen's novel, Turn of the Century: > George has been amazed to discover that there were two Griffins in Max's class this year. . . . But Griffin is precisely the kind of name that'

> I Knew a Priest Who Could See the Dead http://t.co/FGO4dMYfds #dead [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dead?src=hash] #halloween [https://twitter.com/hashtag/halloween?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/8c3K74D7ho [http://t.co/8c3K74D7ho] > — ChurchPOP (@Church_POP) October 31, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Church_POP/

Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? He had no body to go with! Why was the scarecrow given an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! How much did it cost the pirate to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer! Why did the Invisible Man

Halloween is tomorrow. Are you thinking about not handing out candy? If so, please consider this piece that I wrote in 2011. If you want to see the difference between adults and children, look no further than Halloween. For little kids, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year after

> Dominating the family jack-o-lantern competition w Long Island Cheese pumpkin pic.twitter.com/K2cclPBKQa [http://t.co/K2cclPBKQa] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 28, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/527237532279668737]