Fallon
People who wanted to go on the new Harry Potter ride at Universal had to wait in
line for more than seven hours this week. That's right, seven hours of waiting
just for a couple minutes of action. Or as that's also called, “watching
soccer.”
Eric Scheske
Drudge
Cracked me up this morning with this headline:
Friday
BYCU
Alright, TDE readers know I have a big problem with "higher" education. It's
grossly, grossly over-priced; it fraudulently coaxes young men and women to go
into alarming amounts of debt; it's in league with Hudge and Gudge and their
evil designs to
Wednesday
I've pretty much accepted Belloc's premise that the Roman Empire was an act of
Providence: By providing a coherent, unified, stable, and cultured environment,
news of the Lord's birth, death, and resurrection could spread and His Church
could get established.
Of course, if there
Meyers
A Ugandan police officer claims he was forced to shoot an aggressive tortoise
that attacked him while he was drinking tea at home. In his defense, he had to
act quickly, or move over a few feet and weigh his options for another hour.
Wodehouse Wednesday
Some killer passages from the Kindle edition of The Collected Works of P.G.
Wodehouse:
"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not
want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
"He had the
Interesting
H.I.F.
Potential gig for college students:
"A Queens man has discovered enough hidden treasure – bits of diamonds, rubies,
platinum and gold – on the gritty sidewalks of Midtown's Diamond District to
make a living. . . .
“The freelance diamond setter explained that he was sifting through 'very
Fallon
House Speaker John Boehner is threatening to sue President Obama for using
executive actions to create laws, instead of going through Congress first. Then
Obama shrugged and made a new law that you can't sue the president.
Tuesday
> "It's because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not
assemble to worship reverently the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world
has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion." G.K.
Chesterton
Here's a
TIL
Great TIL over at Reddit right now: "TIL that a Roman merchant who sold fake
jewels was sentenced to face a lion in the arena. When the gate finally opened,
a chicken walked out. Emperor Gallienus proclaimed 'He practiced deceit and then
had it practiced on him.'