Miscellaneous

> "It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive." - Charles Peguy > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 16, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/statuses/500446438481231872]

A Random Passage Oh, to be a king in medieval Ireland! > Críth Gablach, the major eighth-century tract on [Irish] social status, states: 'There is, too, a weekly order in the duty of a king: Sunday for drinking ale . . . ; Monday for judgement, for the adjustment of túatha; Tuesday

> Meet the Beer Bottle Dictator - The Daily Beast http://t.co/fwKYOWmaVv > — Simon Frost (@spli) August 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/spli/statuses/500036242667737089]

Tastes pure and clean. And priced right. Sorry for the gay head-tilt on my part:

Another reason to embrace booze, at least moderately: “Gloominess does great harm to us and to those around us. It is a harmful plant that we must uproot as soon as it appears.” Francis Fernandez Alcohol is a crutch for those times when you must be with others but feel

> He may not have an M.B.A., but Pope Francis can teach a thing or two about running a business. http://t.co/1xhDkAiG73 pic.twitter.com/stkZAXrilF [http://t.co/stkZAXrilF] > — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/WSJ/statuses/500014207308693506] > OPINION:

Especially for us middle-aged NFPers:

From the Notebooks "The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use." Albert Jay Nock I've been devouring libertarian books for about five years now (and for thirty years before that,

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

> What beats Amazon, Oyster and Scribd for all-you-can-read ebooks? Your local public library: http://t.co/edS8vszvI6 pic.twitter.com/pgU0flMG6f [http://t.co/pgU0flMG6f] > — Geoffrey Fowler (@geoffreyfowler) August 12, 2014 [https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/statuses/499251435343974400] > The average family with kids in grades K-12 will spend