Day Drinking
Dani Blum at the New York Times
Eric Scheske
A Dominican, a Neuroscientist, and Computer Scientist Walk into a Bar . . . or Maybe a Library
A.G. Sertillanges (the Dominican), Andrew Huberman (the Neuroscientist), and Cal Newport (the Computer Scientist) on the Need for Focus
Hemispheres in the Garden
The left hemisphere plans, incidentally. The right hemisphere flows.
Carol Deppe draws an autobiographical distinction in The Tao of Vegetable Gardening between "Planning Carol" and "Doing Carol." PC lays out elaborate plans that DC later disregards as she gardens. I can relate . . . big-time. Deppe's
The Utopian Gardener: An Autobiographical Incident
Rational ideas create hell on earth. Just ask a kulak. Or just ask the lettuce plants in my garden.
I had a great gardening idea a few years ago. I called it “wild gardening.” The idea was simple and based on U.S. foreign policy over the past 75 years.
Misshapen Creatures that Live in the Earth Can Give Us Sage Advice?
Well, no. But: Don't Fear the Gnome
The first philosophical event in the Greek world, the selection of their seven sages, gives the first distinctive and unforgettable characteristic of Greek civilization. Other people have saints, while the Greeks have philosophers. They are right when some state that a
Six Potential Apparition Conclusions
From the conclusion of the Vatican's new norms for discerning apparitions
It’s Time We Recognize Noise as the Eighth Capital Sin
I’m thinking the list of seven capital sins — Pride, Envy, Avarice, Anger, Sloth, Gluttony, Lust — ought to be expanded to eight.
This may be audacious of me, and I’m not sure what type of campaign I’d need in order to obtain official recognition for an eighth sin,
Cormac's Border Trilogy
Joel J. Miller at Miller's Book Review (Substack)
Recommended? Get Frustrated with Your Cell Phone
Derek Smith at Michigan Engineering
This Might Be the Best Book of the 21st Century
Look Homeward, America. Bill Kauffman. ISI Books, 2006.
Strong, deep, readable, desperate, fun. All those adjectives–even those that trip over one another–fit this book. It's such a good book, it made me want to quit writing. “If someone like Kauffman, with his erudition and talent, isn&