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April 2015

April 08, 2015

Just Bake The Cake! Just Deliver The Beer! What’s The Crucial Difference?

You tell me, citizen. See, a friend of mine posted a story up on his...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

3 Weird Things I’m Doing On Top Of My (Secret) Lenten Penance This Year

It's the Lenten season, and each of us will make a personal sacrifice of some...

January 2014

January 18, 2014

So My Wife Told Me About A Beer Sale I Might Be Interested In…

Over at Cost Plus World Market. And she was right. In fact, I even got...

December 2013

December 14, 2013

Behold! The First Trappist Abbey Ale Brewed In America

A friend of mine sent me the good news. After years in planning, the USA...

November 2013

November 17, 2013

Another Reason To Thank Catholic Monks: Great Beer!

I'm not saying they invented beer. But the beers we enjoy today are a...

September 2013

September 20, 2013

One Question to Pope Francis Went Unasked, and Unanswered.

Sigh. Maybe next time. Now that you're here, you might be interested in Fr. James...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Remember the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree? True Story.

Our fig tree has a bumper crop in store for us this year. The first...

June 2013

June 11, 2013

Now That We Can Cut A Record On A Beer Bottle…

we need to fully fund our deep exploration space programs again. Here's why. Remember Voyager...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

The New Pope Will Be Selected When the Conclave Runs Out of Beer

Black smoke means "No Pope (we still have beer)." White smoke means, "We're outta beer!...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Making the Connection Between the Pill and Water Pollution

So what does a playwright, TV writer, and author know about water pollution and heightened...

February 11, 2013

A Surefire, Scientific, Indicator on Who Our Next Pope Will Be. UPDATED

Choosing future popes prior to them being voted into office by the Papal Conclave is...

February 01, 2013

St. Brigid of Ireland: A Saint After My Own Heart

It's the feast day of the plucky little lass from Ireland who penned one of...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

Blessed Pope John Paul II in the Batting Cage? Awesome!

For baseball fans, we're still in the bleak of midwinter. But seeing this video is...

December 2012

December 21, 2012

I Just Lost My Geek Card. Amen.

Folks are leaving town for the holidays, and I am now on holiday as well....

December 12, 2012

Another Trappist Beer Coming Soon to a Bar Near You?

Maybe. You see, my wife alerted me to this story on NPR about needy Cistercian...

November 2012

November 19, 2012

Best.Beer.Commercial.Ever.

Stella Artois with a passel of ice-skating priests. They send the novice on a beer...

October 2012

October 20, 2012

Finally! A Third Order I May Be Interested in Joining…

It's probably the only one that would have me. Now, do the beer making friars...

September 2012

September 13, 2012

The War On Men…

You may not have noticed it, but it is horrific... No access to free beer....

September 01, 2012

Possibly the Brightest Chapter in the Obama Presidency: Beer Brewing in the White House

It doesn't get much better than this... I hope there is bipartisan support for continuing...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

What the Most Interesting Man In the World Says…

Amen. That is all (H/T Southern Fried Catholicism).

April 2012

April 18, 2012

The Logical Vegetarian (A Few Words for Wednesday)

The Logical Vegetarian by G. K. Chesterton. This was published in Wine, Water, and Song just...

April 16, 2012

Brides-to-Be and the Blindness of Vanity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the books Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, once...

March 2012

March 08, 2012

For The Monks That Have Gone to the Dogs, and the Ones That Make Beer, et al…UPDATED

It's been that way for a while with the Monks of New Skete. Who are...

January 2012

January 12, 2012

Zombies…RUN! To the Theaters, That Is

I have to admit that I enjoy movies that have vast hordes of extras in...

February 2010

February 12, 2010

Thoughts on Temperance on a Friday

I've been thinking about these thoughts written by C.S. Lewis in the current YIMC Book...