Miscellaneous

BYCU The Brutal Hammer of Truth [http://brutalhammer.com/] continues to crank out a study supply of BYCU stories: Interesting piece: the demise of the hotel mini-bar [http://www.traveller.com.au/at-19-for-a-thimble-of-whisky-noone-in-their-right-mind-uses-a-hotel-minibar-h19veg] . Basically, it appears to come down to this: Hotels charge such outrageous prices for the drinks, no

Miscellaneous Rambling I guess LeBron made a reference to Jewish people and their supposed wealth and there was an outcry. This apparently happened during the holiday season, during which I was either indisposed or inebriated, so I missed it. I first read about it in last week's "

Midweek Rambling Whew. No energy these days. I think I had touch of stomach flu or something last week. I started feeling better on Sunday, then came down with a migraine on Monday. Yesterday, I was just kinda dragging all day, though I was able to log in a full

More Miscellaneous Rambling Kinder and gentler ink: "With cleveland.com's right-to-be-forgotten experiment, we are removing names from dated stories about minor crimes and other embarrassing news." Link [https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/01/fill-this-form-out-for-your-right-to-be-forgotten.html] . It's great to hear that I'll

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, now the holiday season is really over. Epiphany has come and gone. Marie is de-Christmasing the house today. A full work-week yawns in front of us. Oh well. Every season, whether of the calendar or our life, brings its blessings and curses. For me, I'm

> Three of my kids at the FOCUS conference in Indianapolis: SEEK. Seen here with Fr. Nathan Goebel from Catholic Stuff You Should Know. > The two boys with Fr. Nathan are my sons, Michael and Jack. Daughter Abbie is two away from Jack (three away from Fr. Nathan). pic.

Brews You Can Use It was a bad Christmas for my liver. From December 22nd through December 31st, I'm guessing I went through over a fifth of gin and a little bit of beer. And now I'm threatening my liver with more punishment: I got all

Mongol Christians Interesting Tweet last week: "When Mongols sacked #Baghdad in 1258 & killed almost all its residents, only lives of the city's Nestorian Christians was spared (they were asked to stay in their church)." Embedded Tweet below. There was a large Nestorian Christian contingent in

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Eleven days of drinking and hanging out and traveling and just in general screwing around comes to an end. I gotta say, I'm not disappointed. When I was a kid, the post-Christmas blues hit me pretty hard. These days? Not hardly at all. I welcome