Miscellaneous

Two Randoms It's county fair week. Every year, I'm expected to donate 24 hours of volunteer time to the Kiwanis Food Building. Twenty years ago, the requirement was arduous. I would often work two consecutive 12-hour days so I could get it over with. By

"To assume that his light is always sufficient is pride." Richard Weaver. I wish I could just stop with that quote. It's worth considering (and pointing at oneself) for a few minutes, but the rest of the Weaver quote, excerpted from his essay "Lee the

President Obama is talking tough. He said he will not rest until Syrian President Assad's power has been reduced to the point where he's on "Dancing With the Stars." Samsung has unveiled its new smartwatch. It will go on sale later this month in

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, it's only September 9th and I'm already footballed-out. Friday night, I listened sporadically to my local high school team's game on radio; on Saturday, I spent four hours attending my youngest son's first game in high temperatures; on

BYCU This is one of the neatest beer pieces I've seen this year [http://www.toledocitypaper.com/August-Issue-1-2013/2013-Beer-Guide/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc] . It's an article from the Toledo Blade that features interviews with a dozen bartenders

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

I just watched the first ten minutes of the Nobel Peace Prize winner's warmongering. I had to click it off. Unbelievable.

As of this writing, I haven't finished James' Pragmatism, but I found this statement in Lecture Two that, I believe, summarizes James' opinion regarding how religion fits into the philosophy of pragmatism. The italics are his: > If theological ideas prove to have a value for