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Fine Drunken Literature Returns

Fine Drunken Literature Returns

Dopamine flooded my brain and I immediately wanted gin to fill my veins: An email announced a new issue of Modern Drunkard Magazine had dropped. My immediate reaction, "It's not dead!" "Will I get a hard copy in the mail?" "How many of

Scrolling Blog: December 2023

Scrolling Blog: December 2023

December 30, 2023 Detroit Pistons Relegated To WNBADETROIT, MI — After suffering a record-tying 28th straight loss, basketball fans across the country and the other 29 NBA teams voted unanimously to demote the Detroit Pistons to the WNBA.The Babylon Bee December 29, 2023 BYCU Beer is on the Decline2023 has

Paragraph 7 of This Newman Sermon is Stunning (Plus a Thomas Sowell Kicker)

Paragraph 7 of This Newman Sermon is Stunning (Plus a Thomas Sowell Kicker)

"Sermon 13: Implicit and Explicit Reason"

Introducing the Non-Story

Introducing the Non-Story

I've been noticing a new type of Internet article: Sites making podcast episodes into news stories. The gimmick's approach: A flashy "news-like" headline, followed by a story about the podcast's content, sprinkled with quotes, which give it the feel of a journalist

How to Use the Cold Weather

How to Use the Cold Weather

I woke up yesterday morning to the gales of November, the same that brought down the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, according to meteorologists who said the atmospheric mix that dumped a few inches on my town is the same that brought down the mighty freighter. I could hear a collective

Hemisphere Video

Hemisphere Video

You don't want to read the 500-page Master and his Emissary? You don't want to read the 1,500 pages that flush it all out? Try The Divided Brain. You can rent it for $1.99. In just 80 minutes, you'll understand the Hemisphere

Days of Wine and Gin

Days of Wine and Gin

Memoirs of an Oenophile It reminds me of a book I once bought solely because of the great title: Memoirs of an Amnesiac by Oscar Levant (available at Amazon for only $147 . . . used versions as low as $27) "Whenever I see the word 'oenophile,' I picture people

Everlasting GKC for Advent

Everlasting GKC for Advent

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a rejoinder to Neil Young's smug "Southern Man. Likewise, GKC wrote The Everlasting Man as a rejoinder to H.G. Wells' Outline of History. In both cases, the rejoinders won. The Everlasting Man explains history as part

Pixel v. Print and Five Hard Novels

Pixel v. Print and Five Hard Novels

I ran across perhaps the most-enjoyable Medium.com pieces of the past few months: Five Insanely Difficult Novels (and Why They're Worth the Effort). It, for me, is perhaps the quintessential online essay. I agree with Joseph Epstein that there is something fundamentally different between reading print and

Annual Thanksgiving Day Quotes

Annual Thanksgiving Day Quotes

“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark Twain “Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “Beggar that I