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# Tuesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/17645/
- Published: 2011-02-01T06:43:13.000Z
- Updated: 2011-02-01T06:43:13.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![literature](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/literature-258x300.jpg "literature")

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly

Amway-like network marketing redux. This time, with backing by Donald Trump. And this time, with **vitamins**. Scam? Or helping people survive the Great Recession? . . . [more>>](http://nymag.com/news/business/70831/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

That John Travolta character? Or more like the Seinfeld one? Or something in-between? No matter the answer, something went terribly wrong with the **Bubble Boy** experiment. . . . [more>>](http://www.houstonpress.com/content/printVersion/218684/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

Sharia prohibits drugs. But **the Taliban winks at heroin**. And other reasons the trafficking struggles in Afghanistan might be the most fierce drug wars in the world. . . . [more>>](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2011/02/opium-wars/draper-text?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

Why do **prices always go up**? Even children ask that question. The answer: Politics. Here's a primer. . . . [more>>](http://mises.org/daily/4974?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

**Philosophy** is necessary, yes, but does it make its practitioners happy? That's doubtful, which is itself troubling. . . . [more>>](http://www.economist.com/node/18007809?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

They gave us Bruce Lee. We've given them Jonathan Kos-Read, perhaps the most-recognized **white guy in Chinese film** today. . . . [more>>](http://articles.latimes.com/print/2011/jan/16/entertainment/la-ca-cultural-exchnage-20110116?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

**Bobby Fisher**. Chess genius, charismatic, crank, Catholic (maybe, at the very end). . . . [more>>](http://www.salon.com/books/laura%5Fmiller/2011/01/30/endgame/index.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

Pictures of **ruined Detroit** aren't helping the problem. Artistic, yes, but distorting. . . . [more>>](http://www.tnr.com/article/metro-policy/81954/Detroit-economic-disaster-porn?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)