Weekly Features Post
Issue XXII
A little Luna Di Luna, Merlot/Cabernet. Eric Scheske has to drink wine by himself, and he typically doesn't want an entire bottle, so he buys four-packs of wine. We're guessing there's eight or ten ounces in a bottle. It's not great stuff, but it gets the job done–helping us write this blog.
Things are booming at TDE. On Monday, we exceeded 20,000 legitimate hits for the month. By "legitimate," we mean hits not generated by worming robots that slither around the Internet, randomly visiting sites for a variety of purposes. We should also exceed 4,000 visitors this month. Both measures significantly exceed March's totals, and March had significantly exceeded February's.
We're always looking to increase our reach, though. If you like this site, send the URL to a friend. They say Eric Scheske is the hardest working guy in blog business ("they" being his Mom and Dad). He posts about seven to ten times every day. Even our staunchest critics (read: "Mrs. Scheske") now admit they look forward to getting on the site every day. We don't ask for Paypal donations, but if you want to tip us, pass along the URL to friends and family. That's thanks enough.
Do They Count Bushes?
The new thing: giving women more bathroom stalls because it takes them longer to relieve themselves. Is this a Title IX thing? Will they eliminate urinals in order to meet the new ratios? Link. Excerpt:
The Los Angeles Community College District has adopted a new policy that will help its female students in a most practical way: The ratios used to set the number of male and female bathroom stalls – a ratio that has allowed men to zip in and zip out, while women stand in line – is changing.
Most classroom buildings will end up with one bathroom unit for every 30 women and for every 40 men. (A unit can be either a stall or a urinal so the proportion of stalls available to women is even greater.)
[It's predicted] that other colleges would soon adopt policies like the one in Los Angeles.
We're a little confused. Awhile back, feminists were demanding that men sit down when they urinate. Is that still on the agenda? Because if it is, it'll take men longer to urinate and throw off the new ratios. But because only the sensitive members (read: homosexuals and wannabe homosexuals) among the male population would comply with that demand, do you calculate the bathroom facility ratio based on the ratio of sensitive fellas in the male population? And if it's based on the ratio of sensitive fellas, does that mean men's rooms in geographic areas with more sensitive men (e.g., California and Massachusetts) will get a better ratio of bathroom facilities than areas with a lower ratio of sensitive men? But if that's the case, how do you take into account that areas with a lower ratio of sensitive men often feature a high percentage of beer drinkers, which means more bathroom breaks? It's quite dizzying.
Good Bar Fare
We ran across this anecdote in a column by Taki this week. Link. Robert "Benchley was known to have spilled more booze than F. Scott Fitzgerald ever downed. Unlike the latter, he could hold it. Emerging once from the Waldorf Astoria, he commanded a doorman to get him a taxi. 'How dare you, Sir,' came the answer. 'I am a United States admiral.' 'Well, in that case,' said the well-oiled Benchley, 'get me a battleship.'"
Stoic's Porch
"From everything that is or happens in the world, it is easy to praise Providence, if a man possesses two qualities: the faculty of seeing what belongs and happens to all persons and things, and a grateful disposition." Epictetus
Strays
"Sir, I am always serious, and never more so than when I am joking." G.K. Chesterton
"Amusement does have an aspect of good inasmuch as it is useful for human living. As man sometimes needs to give his body rest from labors, so also he sometimes needs to rest his soul from mental strain that ensues from his application to serious affairs. This is done by amusement." St. Thomas Aquinas
"It's easy to be a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you." Will Rogers
The mad Fr. Smith in The Thanatos Syndrome says, "You know where tenderness leads, don't you. It leads to the gas chamber."
Theodore Dalrymple, writing in City Journal about Muslim oppression of women and the Western response: "Here are instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two pieties–feminism and multiculturalism–come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence."
Last Word
Typocrat: One who rules by controlling the press. "Mainstream media hates blogs because it means they're no longer typocrats."
