Something for Sunday Morning
Sunday, January 31st, 2010“The saints are the true interpreters of Holy Scripture.” Benedict XVI
Archive for January, 2010
Saturday
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Abbreviated post today because it’s high school musical weekend: Beauty and the Beast. Daughter Abbie has a decent-sized role (“Chip”). I went last night, and my house is full of out-of-town guests. The musical was outstanding. I suspected to see something that only a parent could love, but I ended up enthusiastically standing for an [...]
Econ Saturday
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Econ Saturday I watched the State of the Union address on Wednesday (most of it, anyway). The good news for me: Obama is calling for a new $10,000 college tuition credit. With children in high school, and more heading up that way, that’s great. The bad news: Obama wants even more Pell grants, which are [...]
Brews You Can Use
Friday, January 29th, 2010Salvador, My Friend! I’ve always found Salvador Dali a little too freaky for my tastes. Oberon, however, is perfect for my tastes (though too many Oberons make me feel a little Dali). In any event, I’m looking forward to seeing Dali grace my backyard this summer: “Bell’s Brewery will add some historical significance to its [...]
Thursday
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Received in an Email How did paper currencies perform versus Gold and Silver last decade? Fiat Currency/Gold Decade Gain/Silver Decade Gain US dollar 281 % 214 % Argentine peso 1349 % 1093 % Australian dollar 155 % 129 % Brazilian real 257 % 194 % British pound 280 % 213 % Canadian dollar 176 % [...]
Wednesday
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Noteworthy Freebie Highly recommended: A free online book against abortion: 101 Girls Guide.Com. The author, Serena Gaefke, has gathered together a wide assortment of quotes and passages from pro-choice literature, thereby revealing their insidious agenda and mendacious methods. I’ve read a handful of the chapters. It’s an enjoyable read. FLOP! I guess TDE will remain [...]
Tuesday
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Take a Picture: Ink Spots on Ebony A glimpse into the heart of blackness: “A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion [...]
Monday
Monday, January 25th, 2010Twitter Even though Senator Brown seems content with Roe v. Wade, he does have a soft spot for Catholic nuns: Senator Scott Brown, a protestant, raised money for an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns in Wrentham. Brown has a special relationship with the order. As a bonus, the nuns told him they pray for him [...]
Something for Sunday Morning
Sunday, January 24th, 2010“[T]he will of God is now manifesting itself in those circumstances which are the duty of the present moment. . . . It is the fulfilling of this duty, no matter in what guise it presents itself, which does most to make one holy. . . . For example, if it is God’s will that [...]
Econ Saturday
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Volcker Cometh? I woke up this morning with one thought: Figure out what the heck happened last week in the market. I was so wrapped up with my office project, I didn’t have time to read any financial stories. I just saw the prices of commodities and metals get hammered, stocks get hit less hard, [...]
BYCU
Friday, January 22nd, 2010A college TDE reader forwarded this public service post: 57 Hangover Hacks Every College Kid Needs to Know. Easily the best hangover site I’ve ever seen, though they omit the only remedy that has never failed me: the energy drink.
From the Notebooks
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard are modern parallels of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. I’m not saying that those three economists are philosophers. But those three 20th-century economists worked within a natural law framework to reach their economic conclusions, just as those three classical philosophers worked within the natural law to reach their metaphysical conclusions. All six [...]