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No Blogging Saturday

Male English teachers everywhere, don't teach Brokeback Mountain: A man assigned "The Crucible" in an adult education English class doused his teacher with a nonflammable liquid and threatened to burn her as a witch, police said [http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/bizarre/BO90911/]. __________ New Investment

No Blogging Saturday

It's the Feast Day of St. Francis. From GKC's St. Francis: > [I]t is true to say that what St. Benedict had stored St. Francis scattered; but in the world of spiritual things what had been stored into the barns like grain was scattered over

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I deleted the idea/post/link about giving the AIG bailout to citizens. I hadn't done the math. Things right now are more hectic in my office than a girl's pajama party during an Elvis visit. Good catch, Meistergoat.

From the Notebooks

Letter to a friend who wanted to know what essay/book he should read to understand G.K. Chesterton's economics: Utopia of Usurers: A collection of over two dozen of Chesterton's most trenchant essays on what Capitalism is, and how bad it is . . .". It'

Tuesday

Lecher Bill comments on Palin: "I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008195867_apbillclintonpalin.html] ." If I were Palin, I wouldn't get drunk around him. I wanted to have an ordinary TDE today, but

Saturday

From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations: The first generation makes the family rich, the second generation squanders it, the third generation starts over. Pat Buchanan on today's reality [http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_partys_over/]: > What the Greatest Generation handed down to

The Wednesday Eudemon

I hope everybody liked From the Notebooks, but of course, I know all of you didn't. Nothing pleases everyone, but no matter: FTN will be featured once or twice a week for a year or so, until I run out of script. Since I am--when time permits--constantly replenishing

Saturday

His harem rejoices: Officials believe North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has recovered enough from a stroke to brush his own teeth [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_kim_jong_il]. __________ Upon further reflection, new feature coming to TDE: From the Notebooks. Go here

Pray for the Aggie Catholics!

> The new forecast models have Hurricane Ike going almost directly over College Station. So, please pray for our safety. Also, with the move northward (toward Houston) we will be seeing a large number of evacuees come into town. Evacuations are being ordered, some mandatory, and we could have more

Friday

Well, it's been a perfectly brutal week, the kind of week that calls out for a weekend bender. I planned on cracking open a few last night, but I still had a few work items to handle from home and I was simply too shot (I went to