Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling I'm a Netflix fan, but excuse me, if I don't hold out much hope for this offering: "Jonathan Pryce To Play Pope Francis In Netflix's 'The Pope;' Anthony Hopkins Is Pope Benedict [http://deadline.com/2017/09/pope-francis-jonathan-pryce-pope-benedict-anthony-hopkins-netflix-film-the-pope-fernando-meirelles-anthony-mccarten-1202150924/] ."

Miscellaneous Rambling If this doesn't get pot legalized, nothing will: "Smoking marijuana causes fertility problems because it makes men's sperm 'lazily swim in circles' say experts. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4846328/Marijuana-makes-men-s-sperm-lazily-swim-circles.html] " It therefore hurts fertility. If it hurts

Miscellaneous Rambling I've been hearing lots of Eagles on the radio lately. You'd think Henley had died or something. I've always liked the Eagles, but I knew nothing about them. When Netflix aired a multi-episode documentary about the group, I started watching it. I

Regular blogging resumes tomorrow. > Why young Catholics are drawn to tradition https://t.co/m5T2HPpM6d > — Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) August 31, 2017 [https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/903253148265062401]

> pic.twitter.com/4rf1ciIXd2 [https://t.co/4rf1ciIXd2] > — John Stossel (@JohnStossel) September 1, 2017 [https://twitter.com/JohnStossel/status/903678143147454464]

> Attacking faithful Christians for God's 6,000-year teaching on #LGBT [https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBT?src=hash] is like blaming the surgeon general for "making" smoking harmful. > — John Zmirak (@JZmirak) September 1, 2017 [https://twitter.com/JZmirak/status/903656834288025600]

Brews You Can Use A sad BYCU. We take Michael to college today. Life marches on inexorably. It beats not marching, of course, but it's still melancholic. The occasion will no doubt call for a few drinks this evening, once we get back and plunk ourselves down after

Miscellaneous Rambling Here's a story about a Russian con artist who ripped off investors for well over a billion dollars [https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-how-a-russian-con-artist-is-running-a-m/f-f4152ca8e8%2Fbuzzfeed.com] . The thing I found fascinating: Many of his victims were from Nigeria. Nigeria is the land of fraudsters. I remember

Miscellaneous Rambling I took Jack and Michael (3rd and 4th kids) out for dinner last night. Of course, they had plans for the evening, so we had to eat early, at 5:00. Which I don't mind, but the double gin and tonics took an early toll on