Miscellaneous

Call me "Humpty" > Okay this is a quality meme pic.twitter.com/AaXXa67GRl [https://t.co/AaXXa67GRl] > — I put the Don in Don't (@omgShutUpDon) October 3, 2018 [https://twitter.com/omgShutUpDon/status/1047466232700526594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Show Notes Primary Obligations: The emptiness of the 24/7 argument. Does modern libertarianism conflict with the Catechism? Early Rise of the Centralized State. A'Kempis and a Mild Critique of Libertarianism. St. Symeon the New Theologian. Drunks on Screen. Music: Used pursuant to the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike

> This is one reason that many Eastern Orthodox Christians find it hard to take the idea of reunification with Rome seriously: liturgical instability and what it means. https://t.co/infnz8oPrg > — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1048248310304260098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use One of the more humorous drinking things I saw this week: Modern Drunkard Magazine's "Today's Reason to Drink" is now an Alexa Skill. Link [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Drunkard-Todays-Reason-Drink/dp/B07817K38V/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-skills&ie=UTF8&

Midgets to Seeds Alright, I may have scraped a new low: I bought tickets to see Extreme Midget Wrestling [https://extrememidgetwrestling.com/] in Detroit later this fall. All four sons wanted to go and were available to go, so I decided to make a men's night out of

Miscellaneous Rambling The FBI finishes its investigation today. I like David Stockman's angle, which pretty much says, "Everyone sucks." Excerpt, "]W]hy is the Senate of the United States (and now the FBI, too) wasting its time investigating the antics of a handful of party

From the Notebooks Black magic, the soul killing of Faustus, and political magic come together in abortion. Abortion contains it all. It reflects the ugliness of black magic. It preserves the career path of the Faustian. It's a tool in progressives' attempts to establish a better society

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to Saint Week, which is the introduction to Saint Month. Today, everyone's favorite saint: St. Therese Lisieux. Thursday, everyone's other favorite saint: St. Francis of Assisi. Other notables this week: Bruno, Thomas the Apostle, and your Guardian Angel. On Wednesday, our Eastern brethren