Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Can I ask an un-Catholic question? Are people in America really starving? My priest assures me they are, so I obediently donate regularly to the parish food pantry. The liberals assure us they are, since it's very hard to live on the amount of money

> "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis pic.twitter.com/v9Ic73JjtV [http://t.co/v9Ic73JjtV] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) September 8, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/508768301921869824]

> Relaxing with a good book and an excellent glass of wine from the Machiavelli fattoria... pic.twitter.com/BXV1z26DiM [http://t.co/BXV1z26DiM] > — Nigel Warburton (@philosophybites) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/philosophybites/status/510204408362438656]

People who purchased Olive Garden's seven-week unlimited pasta pass are being told that they must show their ID in the restaurant to prevent fraudulent use of the cards. Unfortunately, by Week 5 none of them will look anything like their IDs. It's been discovered that

> This professor turned a 36 square-foot dumpster into a livable home http://t.co/dI8uUF7fSA pic.twitter.com/Mn6NnuNvWd [http://t.co/Mn6NnuNvWd] > — The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/510207640979668994]

> For Scotch makers, single malt's best in a single country: http://t.co/9AiOKpfHFT pic.twitter.com/FcO4OaZmAF [http://t.co/FcO4OaZmAF] > — Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) September 11, 2014 [https://twitter.com/BloombergNews/status/510096803761774592]

H.I.F. October is already a great feast month (Francis, Lisieux, others). It just got better: "The Feast Days of Saints John XXIII and John Paul II will be on October 11th and October 22nd respectively, the Vatican has announced." Link [http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/

> What better way to finish off a long day spent writing about the Julio-Claudians? pic.twitter.com/6kl9UlEzVk [http://t.co/6kl9UlEzVk] > — Tom Holland (@holland_tom) August 24, 2014 [https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/503593507710582784]

BYCU This article came out at Listverse on Wednesday: 10 Ways Alcohol Created Modern Society [http://listverse.com/2014/09/10/10-ways-alcohol-created-modern-society/]. Don't worry: it doesn't insinuate that alcohol is to blame for this monstrosity known as "modernity." It&