Miscellany
Hungary How’s Budapest this time of year? I tell ya, the Magyars got it goin’ on. A COVID per-capita rate well below the European average, an ongoing resistance to …
Month: June 2020
Malcolm
Random Today I Learned Malcolm X spent his youth in Lansing, Michigan, and he attended Mason High School for a short while. Both Lansing and Mason are less than …
Better Drinking Through Science
Historical Liquor This is perhaps the neatest drinking story of 2020: Distiller using molecular science to hack the chemical codes of aged spirits and recreate them. They’re bringing back …
Principle of Subsidiarity
What COVID Ought to Teach Us I’m back from vacation and catching up on COVID matters. I was greeted with news that COVID cases are spiking rapidly in my …
Blog Returns Tomorrow
I just returned from a short vacation. Blogging resumes tomorrow, with a solid BYCU in the wings for Friday.
Monday Moanin’
Miscellany I’m not sure it’s terribly compelling, but these days, I eagerly gulp down every ounce of sanity I find: “Muhammad Ali’s only biological son says that his father …
June 20, 1980: 40 years ago, The Blues Brothers was released in theaters. #80s pic.twitter.com/HlAgX0jlbv — Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) June 20, 2020
Drinking Matters
Holiday Drinking! Juneteenth! The date in 1865 when word of the Emancipation Proclamation was formally announced in Texas. A day to drink! If you don’t drink a beer of …
Miscellany
Rambling Here’s your big chance to be first: I’ve launched a site at Patreon. Yeah, I’m not sure how it works either. I literally launched it fifteen minutes ago …
The Supreme Power
Supreme Corruption Something happens to conservative men when they reach the Supreme Court: Kennedy, Roberts, and now Gorsuch. I don’t know if it’s mere proximity to power that corrupts …
The Post-Party
The Local Bachelor Party These broken chairs are just a snapshot of the fallout from an incredible bachelor party Saturday afternoon in my backyard. Everyone from son Max (16), …
Best Tweet of the Week
If we defund the police, who’s going to take away the guns and plastic straws?