Miscellaneous

Scientists in China say obesity may be caused by bacteria in your stomach. Three of the most common carriers of the bacteria are pizza, cheeseburgers, and doughnuts.

Trifles Flu slams into my house. First time in awhile that we've been hit. I went down first, but I was feeling much better by bedtime yesterday. I'm still not sure that it was the flu that got me. It might have just been a really

Miscellany Christmas draws to a close. The picture above is the weight bench (with pulley system) that we gave the boys for Christmas. My wife found the beat-up box at K-Mart with a $15 price tag on it. She lugged it to the checkout counter and the digital scan confirmed

"The irony is that epiphanies are made for sharing, even as they are impossible to communicate fully." Fr. Thomas Rosica

Miscellany I had dinner with a young priest last night. He's currently stationed in Rome, and he told me that the monastery at Norcia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery_of_St._Benedict_%28Norcia%29] has started a brewery. The intensely-traditional monks are apparently churning great stuff. From

BYCU My big BYCU news? Gluten-free beer isn't bad. My brother-in-law bought me two bottles for Christmas. They were both surprisingly good and not more expensive than lower-priced craft beers ($1.99 a bottle). I'm inclined to stick with red wine and vodka (not mixed, chuckle)

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

Bullets My son saw these two quotes attributed to Will Ferrell and Ron Artest respectively, "If lesbians don't like men, why are they attracted to women who look like men?" And: "Why do people keep head-butting my elbow?" * * * * * * * Speaking of Facebook, you might want

Happy New Year, everyone. It's a holiday, so blogging today is at a minimum. I'm just going to plug my new favorite Twitter account: The Overly Manly Man [https://twitter.com/OverlyManlyMann]. It reminds me a lot of a book my father bought me while I

Bullets I watched Boondock Saints last night for the first time. Excellent movie. Highly recommended. * * * * * * * Farmers, you're irrelevant. Just ask the people in Boston and San Francisco. Midwesterners, you suck. Just ask the molders of public opinion in NYC and LA. Rural folk, you don't matter.