Saturday
Time-is-tight weekend. Just this great quote today: “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” Mark …
Month: February 2015
A Sad Day
I just learned that my professor, mentor in the faith, and friend Charles Rice died Wednesday. We lost touch over the years, last corresponding by email a few months …
Friday
Brews You Can Use I read once that the average lifespan of a blog is six months. I actually would’ve guessed three months, but maybe they count the blogs …
Humorous
H.I.F. There’s a race war going on, but it’s black on black. This from talk show host Byron Allen, criticizing Al Sharpton for selling out to big media interests: …
Meyers
Jamaica has officially decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. Which would be great news if anyone in Jamaica had small amounts of marijuana.
Meyers
Boston’s city council is considering increasing its alcohol tax. The plan would raise an estimated $900 million billion trillion.
Thursday
I recently re-ran across this passage from John C. h. Wu’s (the Chinese Chesterton’s) The Golden Age of Zen: “The first and second chapters of the Tao Teh Ching …
Fallon
A group of teenagers in Colorado surprised their neighbors by shoveling 50 driveways and walkways for free. They didn’t mean to. They were just too stoned to remember which …
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 …
Meyers
A woman in Mexico was arrested at a movie theater this weekend during “Fifty Shades of Grey.” She was sad about being arrested, but really psyched about being handcuffed.
Tuesday
After linking to that Rod Dreher article yesterday, I Googled him. I used to correspond with him occasionally when we both wrote for Touchstone (he regularly, me whenever I …
As Long as I’m on Dreher
I saw this for the first time this afternoon: New Book Notice: ‘How Dante Can Save Your Life’ | Rod Dreher http://t.co/UNAkZtxo6v — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 24, …