The Haunted Pub
Friday, October 31st, 2008A second installment of Brews You Can Use.
Archive for October, 2008
Brews You Can Use
Friday, October 31st, 2008Best site I found this week: Bum Wine. Thunderbird, Mad Dog. Enlightening and entertaining stuff. Sample: Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere – woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip tickets available, and a strong liklihood of a [...]
Best Election Blog Post of 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Four ways Obama will raise taxes on those making less than $250,000. Excerpt: The first loophole was easy to find: Senator Obama doesn’t “count” allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse as a tax increase. Unless the cuts are re-enacted, rates will automatically return to the 2000 level. Senator Obama claims that letting a tax [...]
October 28th Bites
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Save on pumpkins. __________ What are people wearing this year for Halloween? Forbes breaks it down: Palin, Obama, McCain, Joe the Plumber, Speedo Phelps. __________ Also from Forbes: How to treat the children more healthily. Give me a break, Forbes. Bunch of killjoys. Should we make the children step on a weight scale when they [...]
From the Notebooks
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008Why I Don’t Know What I Am Conservative? Liberal? Republican? Democrat? Libertarian? Is it me, or is it a topsy-turvey political scene out there? I can’t look at any group and say, “I think like they do.” I can look at a few and say, “They have some good ideas,” or “I agree with their [...]
Schizoid Catholics
Monday, October 27th, 2008Adulterer behind me, adulterer in front of me. Both freshly unrepentant. All three of us at Mass to celebrate First Communion with our sons. My distaste for American Catholicism spiked at that Mass, but it started long before, back before my conversion in 1991, when I was a Lutheran enamored with all things anti-Catholic, sneering [...]
Something for Sunday Morning
Sunday, October 26th, 2008“If we indulge ourselves in vain, frivolous, or sinful speculations, our minds become incapable of choosing what is most proper for mortifying our disorderly affections.” Lawrence Scupoli
No Blogging Saturday
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Relief is at hand. My son’s last marching band performance was eight days ago, my daughter’s last home volleyball game five days ago, my two sons’ last football games today. After this, I have a few weeks of reprieve before other activities kick in . . . and I have only two children playing winter [...]
Brews You Can Use
Friday, October 24th, 2008Making the best out of bad situations: A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to create a beer that [...]
From the Notebooks
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008“It is vain and useless to conceive either grief or joy for future things, which perhaps shall never come to pass. But it is in human nature to be deluded with such imaginations.” The Imitation of Christ, Book 3, Chp. 30. Why is it in our nature to be deluded with such imaginations? If we’re [...]
From the Notebooks
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008I may have been hungover while writing this entry in 2004. Good luck: If you hear a purported absolute truth and it doesn’t involve a paradox, you can assume you hear heresy. The tradition of Western philosophy to find an absolute source of knowledge—Descartes’ I think therefore I am, Kanti’s a priori knowledge,Bentham’s Utilitarianism, Comte’s [...]
From the Notebooks
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008From 2002 The coming of the sixth child has been the harshest for us to accept. We finished the addition to our house a year ago, and we consider the house absolutely perfect for our seven-person family. On a scale of one-to-ten, with all things considered (including the virtues of simplicity and humility), it’s a [...]