The Daily Eudemon

 G.K. Chesterton: His cause of canonization has been rejected. I understand why, but the charge of anti-semitism is ridiculous. And unnecessary to raise. Maybe the bishop was virtue signalling. 

Lighting Segments: The notecard, beer markets, Europe’s death wish, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Total Work: Work 24/7 and you’ll never work another day in your life. Well, maybe. I flush it out here.

Music for Lighting Segments: Sky Hawk Beach by Blue Wave Theory. Used pursuant to the Attribution Share-Alike License 4.0.

Theme song: Skinnin’ Lynyrd by Greg Scheske, a bespoke expert. Email him here: [email protected]

 Segments:

Trump and Baltimore.

CBGBs.

Lightning Segments.

The Hour. One hour of “prayer” (term used loosely) in the morning. It really works, and you’ll have plenty of time. 

Music for Lighting Segments: Sky Hawk Beach by Blue Wave Theory. Used pursuant to the  Attribution Share-Alike License 4.0. 

I took a spiritual retreat to Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery, home of Thomas Merton. 

Detachment: The first rule of the spiritual life. 

Poverty, chastity, obedience: three facets of detachment. Its connection to Zen. How play let's us live an active life in the detached mode. 

 Memorial Day Weekend: A tradition has come to a close: I’m not bacheloring it this holiday weekend. Please indulge this autobiographical note, with commentary on foreign intervention.

Lightning Segments. My oldest sons have been getting drunk in Mexico. I can (and in this segment do) relate. 

The Crock Pot Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is like a crock pot: it can hold putrid gruel or cuisine, but it always holds its form. 

Music attribution

Theme song: Skinnin’ Lynyrd by Greg Scheske, a bespoke expert. Email him here: [email protected]  

Background music for Lightning Segments is courtesy of Audionautix.

 Mental Exercising: Everyone seems to agree: It’s crucial we exercise mentally, normally in the form of meditation. Meditation, even the most secular, focuses on taking yourself out of time and space. Why? Time and space are the realm of the bodily. By practicing meditation, by trying to escape time and space, is there an admission that there is, indeed, a spiritual? 

Predictive Genetics: The genetics revolution is here. It’s scary, scary stuff, and the Chinese don’t find it scary at all. The curse of Communism (which compelled Mao to wipe out thousands of years of Chinese tradition and norms) might be preparing to bring its worse harvest of all. 

Lightning Segments: Dieting and efficient drinking, Three Dog Night’s Chuck Negron at the Rose Bowl, gay Mexicans, more.

Education News: Senior hook-up software program at the Ivies, Detroit Diocese bans Sunday athletics, the farce of a bachelor’s degree. 

Music attribution

Theme song: Skinnin’ Lynyrd by Greg Scheske, a bespoke expert. Email him here: [email protected] 

Background music for Lightning Segments is courtesy of Audionautix.   

 Brian Sims: Yup, he’s a hateful nut. Yup, the Right has hateful nuts too. The thing is, the Right doesn’t have them in positions of influence or power. Moreover, the postmodernist Left is, from its core beliefs, extremist and hateful. 

Fleeing California: Dot com millionaires are fleeing California right before they realize their taxable income from their start-ups. Pretty funny . . . and a snapshot why beautiful California will wreck itself. 

Lightning Segments: Toilet wine, transgender sports leagues, two Spotify recommendations, how to drink like an adult, Michigan in May, and Copts. 

E.F. Schumacher: A Guide for the Perplexed is a great book, but it’s wrapped in the self-focused northern school of Zen instead of the southern school that rejects subject-object. The western spiritual tradition is wrapped in the northern school, but its two greatest spiritual writers, St. John of the Cross and St. Therese Lisieux, weren’t. 

Music attribution

Theme song: Skinnin’ Lynyrd by Greg Scheske, a bespoke expert. Email him here: [email protected] 

Background music for Lightning Segments is courtesy of Audionautix.   

 Noise. Our culture is too tolerant when it comes to noise. I explore it. 

Noise Part II: Silence and Russell Kirk, Max Picard, and Cardinal Sarah. The Eighth Capital Sin. 

LIghtning Segments: I address some listener feedback, treating hangovers, movie critic John Senior. 

The New Pantagruel: My article, The Eighth Capital Sin, appeared in the defunct magazine New Pantagruel with Caleb Stegall. I discuss it here. 

 LGBT at Work: The Supreme Court has taken three LGBT discrimination cases. It’s evidence that Derrida has won: text with no context can be twisted however you want. 

Easter: The Resurrection is an historical fact. Shocking claim? Hear me out. Also: Discussion about the Shroud of Turin. 

Lightning Segments: Low calorie gin and tonics, Game of Porns, Staring at a Naked Woman, Staring down NOW at the Masters (Note: I don’t say “hundreds of thousands” when referring to the men’s counter-protest at the Masters . . . I say “hundreds or thousands”). 

Loan Forgiveness: Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to eliminate student debt is a moral outrage. Her plan to throw even more money at the schools further compounds the problem. 

 Tiger Woods: Congratulations to Tiger and congratulations to golf. 

Tiger and the Press: Tiger the Philanderer . . . covered up by the press. A small example of a much bigger problem: the press can’t be trusted. 

Insurance Rates: Your credit history has nothing to do with your driving habits? Highly unlikely, the assertion of the leftist Arab congresswoman from Detroit’s assertion to the contrary. 

Twitter’s Post-Modernist Narrative: Twitter has a narrative. If your narrative disagrees with theirs, you get banned. But they assure us: they’re objective and only look at context. 

A Thought Experiment: What if Google et al have been taken over by the government? There’s evidence that they’re influenced heavily by government, but what if they’re actually controlled by the government? And they’re stomping on free speech, controlling the search engine results, etc. There’s evidence that they’re beholden to government (tax breaks, etc.) and, therefore, influenced by government, but not quite controlled. But if they were . . .? 

The Grand Narrative: Post-modernism loves to overthrow grand narratives. It’s a related branch of revisionist history. Some of it is is a good thing, but when they want to shift the narrative from “America is great” to “America sucks and needs to be remade,” they’re ridiculous and evil.