Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Glorious Indian Summer! Temps got down to 28 here Sunday morning. Lows for the next ten days are in the upper thirties and forties; highs in the fifties and low sixties. I hope to walk and walk until my feet fall off. If this coming winter is like

. . . embedded tweet about the Monks of Norcia's beer. First found here [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/what-we-need-are-men-like-st-benedict/] .

A gang member turned rabbi has been arrested in New York for impersonating a police officer. A gang member, a rabbi, and a police officer. He's basically a one-man version of the Village People. Meyers President Obama is trying very hard to put people at ease about Ebola.

Good squash season this year. If I can keep a few unripe ones from getting damaged in tonight's freeze, I could end up with 50 or more. Here are pics of many of the squash, plus a few gourds:

> Maggie Gallagher expresses deep concern over the synod in Rome: http://t.co/jWnd86pPwa > — AmericanConservative (@amconmag) October 17, 2014 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/523217024013443072]

BYCU A fun piece at Fox last week: 5 of the world's most dangerous cocktails [http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/10/07/5-world-most-dangerous-cocktails/]. 1. The Hurl Hurl 2. The Zombie 3. The Vaportini 4. The Tequila Blue Blazer 5. Corpse Reviver #2 There is no reference to

A new poll shows that only a slim majority of Americans think the country is prepared for an Ebola outbreak. But I think we deal with outbreaks pretty well. It only took us a couple of months to completely eradicate Gangnam Style.

H.I.F. How many layers of "wrongness" can you count in these few passages from this story out of Oklahoma [http://eagnews.org/students-photo-of-skimpy-michelle-o-school-lunch-sparks-outrage/] ? I spot six: Lunch meat, a couple of crackers, a slice of cheese and two pieces of cauliflower qualified as lunch in Chickasha

Scar someone for life this Halloween. Just $2,240. Link [http://i.imgur.com/ym9Cdzm.gif].

A Random Passage Bill Kauffman, writing in his charming Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (2002), writes about the uncharming new sport: "[B]aseball has lost its hold on the younger generation, who are being led into the tedious hell that is soccer. Once the leathery symbol of British imperialism,