Mental Health Monday

Coffee Stockpiling + Beards & Germs + Lutheran Quotes Pope

Journaling can be beneficial to those who suffer from chronic depression. My blogging is one way that I seek to cope.

There Is No Place Like . . . Switzerland

"Swiss government says coffee 'not essential,' stockpiling to end. Switzerland on WED announced plans to abolish the nation's emergency stockpile of coffee, in place for decades, after declaring the beans not vital for human survival, though opposition to the proposal is brewing." [link from Jonah Goldberg's column, via the Drudge Report, 4/13]
Opposition is brewing, get it? LOL *
* loony old Lutheran

. . . China

"Chinese pensioners hang themselves on high bars by the neck & dangerously swing their bodies to treat spinal pain." [ditto]

Taglines from the Drudge Report

• "Employees who deliver 'service with a smile' are more likely to drink heavily because 'faking a grin is draining,'" [4/12]
• "Bearded men carry more germs than dogs" [4/15]
• "No religion now as popular as Catholicism" [4/15]

Lutheran Quotes Pope!

"Only if things have a spiritual reason, are intended & conceived--only if there is a Creator God who is good & wants the good--can the life of man also have meaning." [Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, quoted by Kathryn Jean Lopez in "Holy Week Transcends Selfie Culture,' National Review Online, 4/15]

Dept. of Shameless Joke Stealing *

* courtesy of Reader's Digest, April 2019

"Two old friends, Ned & John, lived for baseball. Then one day, John died, leaving Ned inconsolable. A few weeks later, Ned heard someone calling his name. He looked up. Standing on a cloud was his old pal. 

       "'Ned,' John called down. 'I have good news & bad. The good news is, there's baseball in heaven!' 'Great,' said Ned. 'What's the bad news?'

       "'You're pitching Sunday.'"