Thursday
Bullets If you’re interested in economics and agriculture, you might enjoy this EconTalk podcast: Lisa Turner on Organic Farming. For a variety of reasons, I expected the podcast to …
Month: January 2013
Late Night Kimmel
“60 Minutes” anchor Steve Kroft is defending Sunday’s interview with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying that he didn’t have enough time to ask hard-hitting questions. That would be …
Late Night Craig Ferguson
Oprah was in the news recently for her Lance Armstrong interview. It was TV at its most powerful. Armstrong tearfully admitted to using steroids, and Oprah reciprocated by tearfully …
Wednesday
Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the “Tremendous Trifles” column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC …
Tuesday
Random Opening I’m not a big fan of Facebook, but I was dealing with a migraine Sunday afternoon and looking for some low-impact ways to spend time, so I …
Monday
Sundays “You might try never working on Sundays. Just rule it out. See how you like it.” That’s one of the best pieces of advice I ever received from …
Something for Sunday Morning
“Being humble, we will ask God for pardon many times a day for our sins of omission and commission, or at least for what is not going well in …
Saturday
Caption to this picture: “How to Tell When Hunting Season is Over.” Have you seen Zero Dark Thirty? I haven’t gone, but it has come to my hometown so …
Friday
BYCU I received an interesting email of “incredible historical pictures.” The pictures look legitimate, but I question some of the captions (I suspect the person who assembled the original …
Wednesday
Peterson Observations I’m enjoying John Peterson’s Pop Goes the Culture. It’s great non-fiction light reading . . . a perfect “bathroom book,” though I haven’t much defiled it that …
Tuesday
Calling All Nerds: 20 Books to Make You a Smart Catholic Joseph Epstein is the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably …
Monday
Those are four of my kids, handling a snake during their visit to Detroit these past few days. I think the picture is gross. Snakes give me the willies. …