Miscellaneous

> Another hoax bites the dust! https://t.co/efzJdb1fdv > — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 24, 2017 [https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/922971312431206400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Two of my sons go to EMU. I remember when this story broke. Few people, including me, thought it was legitimate graffiti . . . it

Miscellaneous Rambling Thank you, Onion, for reflecting something that, I hope, most of America feels: "Saying the decision would become effective immediately, The NCAA announced Saturday that it was suspending the Penn State football team another three years after remembering everything they did. 'Holy ****, you know what, you

Miscellaneous Rambling There are few things better than a warm fall evening. I didn't want yesterday to end and looked for things to do outside: play tennis with kids, harvest some Jester lettuce seeds, say the rosary while I strolled around my yard. But I finally bid the

> Today in unfortunate placement. @iowahawkblog [https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/RGGGinVJVv [https://t.co/RGGGinVJVv] > — David Deeble (@DavidDeeble) October 20, 2017 [https://twitter.com/DavidDeeble/status/921373167725285377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use Those Theology on Tap sessions take it out of me. I was wiped out all day and didn't get a chance to take a nap. I finally reached the end of the day at 8:00 last night, free-poured myself a gin and tonic,

Theology on Tap went alright. The biggest problem was the venue: The restaurant was filled, resulting in a lot of background noise. The lecture itself was a bit more dense than the last one (I had 40 minutes to pack in 75 years of history, instead of 30 minutes to

Tonight's Handout: Nominalism William of Occam (Early 1300s): All is the way it is because God says so. Common sense be damned b/c it detracts from God's glory. Does God ordain something because it's good for humans? Or is something good because God

Miscellaneous Rambling The second lecture in my 7-part Theology on Tap session is tomorrow night: "The Reformation: Causes and Early Years." It basically goes from 1350 to 1525. The November lecture will from 1525 to 1650. Our parish administrator puts the over-under attendance at 30. We'll

Miscellaneous Rambling I guess Saturday Night Live tooks swipes at Harvey Weinstein: "The real burn came from Colin Jost and Michael Che at the Weekend Update desk. After reporting that Weinstein was headed to a rehab center, Jost fired back: 'He doesn't need sex rehab. He