Issue IVWelcome to an abbreviated version of TWE. We plan to return to our full plate with the new year.Drinking with ToddlersI love playing with my six children and I look forward to drinking beer with them in some not-too-distant future. But we’re not buddies. A recent article in the Star Tribune points this out [...]
Issue IIICleverness is scarce, but compliments are up. So we plow forward, a glass of merlot in one hand, a flagon of ale in the other, a keyboard in the third. Welcome to Issue III of TWE.I’m Glad My Dad Didn’t Play Darth Vader”When Dario D’Ambrosio, the 45-year-old Italian actor who had the part [of [...]
Welcome BackGlad 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 BeastIn light of the renewed interest in Alfred “Batman’s Butler” Kinsey, this short quote seems most timely: “Man without God is [...]
WelcomeWelcome 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’t bad. If you do just one, you probably shouldn’t come back. [...]
“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, all the red states have higher “divorce rates” than blue states.His [...]
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 be new. All will be short.I will publish a new one every Wednesday.If [...]
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