Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling I think I've watched that Weather Channel video ten times now. Cracks me up every time. Whatta fraud. TWC said it wasn't fraudulent: the anchor (ironic name) was standing on wet grass and was tired. Ha. Derisible stuff. The video triggers an epistemology discussion

> So dramatic! Dude from the weather channel bracing for his life, as 2 dudes just stroll past. #HurricaneFlorence [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneFlorence?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/8FRyM4NLbL [https://t.co/8FRyM4NLbL] > — Tony scar. (@gourdnibler) September 14, 2018 [https://twitter.com/gourdnibler/

> Interesting perspective https://t.co/WlL6Jokwo9 > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) September 14, 2018 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/1040717525288402944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use I have a confession: I've never outgrown drunken hijinks. Sure, I don't have that many myself anymore, but my mind still guiltily goes back in time and recollects some of my more, ahem, immoderate antics and laughs. I honestly don't

Miscellaneous Rambling Feast Day of the Golden Mouth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom]. Dostoyevsky, we hardly know thee: "A Domino's franchise owner in Russia offered customers 100 years of free pizza (max of 100 pies per year) if they got the Domino's logo

Rambling Great podcast at Econtalk: Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First Circle [http://www.econtalk.org/kevin-mckenna-on-solzhenitsyn-the-soviet-union-and-in-the-first-circle/] . Econtalk is starting a reader's club and In the First Circle is the first book. The podcast is so good, I'm tempted to join the club, but

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy 9/11 Days. I avoid my parish as much as possible around this holiday, for reasons set forth here [https://catholicexchange.com/nine-eleven-days]. I don't know if we played the saccharine "I was there" God recording. I didn't feel like crying,

Miscellaneous Rambling Wow, Sweden turns right [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sweden-election/anti-immigration-party-set-for-election-gains-as-sweden-swings-right-idUSKCN1LO0V6] . This would be like Keith Richards going Baptist. I didn't think any of the Scandinavian countries had a scintilla of virility or nationalist pride left. I would've expected a show of guts from

Boston, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, NFL Re: Boston. Miscellaneous things related to my trip to Boston. Mistake correction: All of my sons except Alex went to Southie. Alex was home sick. Dostoyevsky: I draw a parallel between A Writer's Diary and TWE . . . or rather, a non-parallel. Orwell: A tip to