Bullets
I golf once a year. Today is it. It's the 32nd annual Scheske Open, so just a handful of things. * * * * * * * Theodore Dalrymple draws a stark analogy between the fall of the Roman Empire and the late Empire's love for games and the ongoing fall of the British Empire and its Olympic games. Dalrymple doesn't pull many punches: Sample, "Blair's regime benefited only those who worked for it, and the Olympics, for which he lobbied hard, were his parting gift to the nation he had betrayed, a fitting memorial to a man with a soul of tinsel." * * * * * * * Reno, drink, hookers, and Chesterton. Kevin O'Brien provides one of the best Annual Chesterton Conference reviews I've ever read . . . and I think I've read them all. * * * * * * * Thomas Sowell and I have something in common, besides our good looks. We're both fascinated by Harlem. His interest exceeds mine (he lived there and reads entire books on the subject, whereas I've been in it a few times and read Internet pages about it). His most recent entry in this side interest. Significant passage that's worth pondering (he's writing about the era before the blacks became the predominant ethnic group): "There was an Italian community in East Harlem, but it was not just an undifferentiated Italian community. People from Genoa lived clustered together, as did people from Naples, Sicily and other parts of Italy. Jews from Germany lived separately from Jews who originated in Eastern Europe, who in turn lived in separate enclaves of people from different parts of Eastern Europe." * * * * * * * Kind of interesting, at least for me, since I'm surrounded by 'em: "A New Amish Community Is Founded Every Three-And-A-Half Weeks in US, Experts Estimate." * * * * * * * Have you heard about the Amish prostitute? She does ten Mennonite (that's definitely a phonetic joke, but just say it out loud).
