Miscellaneous

Brews You Can Use I tuned in for about three minutes of the Kavanaugh testimony. It was hard to watch, but at least I got to see one Senator inquire in his youthful drinking exploits. That was enough for me to conclude it was all pomp and circusness. There were

Circus Day C-SPan starts coverage at 9:45. I'm ashamed to admit, I wish I could watch . . . and I might end up streaming it from my computer at work for a little while. This is nothing but soap opera dressed up as politics. Or to draw from Russell

And More Rambling Wow, Der Spiegel is even turning on Pope Francis. Vatican Cardinal: Pope Francis Is 'Ice-Cold, Cunning Machiavellian' [https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/09/24/vatican-cardinal-pope-francis-ice-cold-cunning-machiavellian/] > According to Der Spiegel, Francis, who started as a “brilliant reformer,” now threatens to squander his legacy because

More Miscellaneous Rambling I've long dabbled in 1960s history, but I'd never even heard of the Celebration of Life rock festival in McCrea, Louisiana, which turned into a festival of death. The gist of it appears to be, promoters were trying to make money at the

Miscellaneous Rambling The newest episode of The Weekly Eudemon is posted. Autumn, The Virgin Eye, Magic, and More [https://anchor.fm/eric817/episodes/Autumn--The-Virgin-Eye--Magic--and-More-e29csf] . I spent a fair amount of time working on this episode, relearning Audacity to produce it. The content is no better, but the listening aesthetics should

> "If this weren't true, this would be one of the most compelling horror stories you could ever see. Because it's true, it makes it really important we all see it and spread the word," - @glennbeck [https://twitter.com/glennbeck?ref_src=twsrc%

BYCU Welcome to the first day of fallthe eve of the first day of fall, my favorite time of year. I'm celebrating its arrival tonight. I want to have gin and tonic, but that's not a fall drink, so I might have Sam Adams' Octoberfest.

Random Rambling Whew, brutal blitz these past nine days: four lunch meetings, funeral, overnight-obligation wedding, three tennis matches, an out-of-town cross-country meet, and a six-hour obligation in my service club's County Fair fundraiser. I think I'm done for awhile, though. It wasn't too bad,

From the Notebooks The historian of intellectual history, Frances Yates, wrote extensively about the realm of magical pursuits in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Yates pointed out that Renaissance magic–though characters like Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Campanella, and Cornelius Agrippa–reached its apex in the sixteenth century. But in 1614,