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Welcome Back Glad you came back for Week II. We received compliments on the first issue. Here's a tall glass of Christmas spirits to hopes of another successful run at this humble enterprise. Kinsey and the Beast In light of the renewed interest in Alfred "Batman'

Welcome Welcome to the inaugural issue of The Wednesday Eudemon. If you read it and (i) smirk once, (ii) nod once, and (iii) learn something new, I'm gratified. If you do just two of the three, I'm content like Meatloaf: two out of three ain'

"Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country at 2.4 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants. Texas has a divorce rate of 4.1." That observation was made by Andrew Sullivan, the rabidly gay-is-great ex-Catholic, but otherwise splendid writer. He goes on to observe that, like Texas,

This blog is changing. Starting December 8th, it'll become a "weekly reader's source" (the term "on-line magazine" would be too bold). Each issue will present something fun and something fine, something stolen and something mine. Some items will be old. Some will

Man by nature asks questions he cannot possibly answer. If a man also rejects authority, the result is a detached nihilism or despair. If a young man decides to scale to the top of a giant walnut tree by himself but simply cannot do it, he will need help. If

"I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome, without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome." Flannery O'Connor.

Those who fail to see that love means sacrifice, live miserably or shallowly. Love, after all, is the ultimate source of happiness.

Presenting a GKC quote is almost cheap. They're so plentiful and many of them so well-known, it's just too easy and commonplace. But once in awhile I see a new one and it's too good to keep private. Definition of secularism: "the idea

The only way most people can be better off exchanging gifts than keeping the money and spending it on themselves is if their kith and kin know them so well, have cared enough to know them so well, as to give them things they wanted without realizing it. John Robson

When do we hit middle age? I think most people would place it at 35-40, but I see people who look middle aged at 33 and some who look youthful at 43. It's probably not a matter of one's chronological age, as much as it is