TEE
For January:
"Corn spot up 7.76%, wheat up 5.63%, Rice up 10.08%, Hogs up 10.16%, Sugar up
5.64%, Orange Juice up 3.33%, and cotton.... up 17.08%. That's in one month!"
Source: Zero Hedge
-- Mobile post
Eric Scheske
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Amway-like network marketing redux. This time, with backing by Donald Trump. And
this time, with vitamins. Scam? Or helping people survive the Great Recession? .
. . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/business/70831/]
That John Travolta character? Or more like the Seinfeld one? Or something
Monday
Sloping Toward Rush
"Ching chong, ching chong cha." That's Rush Limbaugh, imitating the Chinese
Communist leader, before launching into a 20-second imitation of the Chinese
language . . . an imitation that hasn't sat well with the Left. Link
[http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110128/D9L1B1SO0.html]
Something for Sunday Morning
"To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really
want to become a saint." Escriva
The Winterfest King
My son, crowned at the high school earlier this afternoon.
Friday
One and Done
Watch for these beers: "Tactical Nuclear Penguin." "Sink The Bismarck." "The End
Of History." "Start the Future." They're the worlds strongest beers, hitting as
high as 60% alcohol (120 proof). People are calling them "superbeers,"
Thursday
The Vat
My firm subscribes to the New Yorker. A recent issue featured this piece about
the Vatican library, "God's Librarians
[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/03/110103fa_fact_mendelsohn]." It's
good, especially for a magazine that isn't terribly friendly
Wednesday
Woe the Man with Halitosis
I found a book on sports psychology at the library last week. It could aptly be
called, "The Tao and Sports." Because the Tao has long intrigued me (note
[http://dailyeudemonannex.blogspot.com/2011/01/monday.html]), I checked it out.
I suspect
Tuesday
Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly
Athletes like to text and twitter. Why? Because they're dumb jocks. Maybe. . . .
more [http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/why-sportmen-text]>>
Communists. Cultural Marxists. Progressives. All the same: totalitarians, intent
on subjugating the masses. . . . more>>
[http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/
Monday
Barbarians at the Gate
Alan Greenspan returns to his libertarian roots more and more each day. The
stunner quote: "We have at this particular stage a fiat money which is
essentially money printed by a government and it's usually a central bank which
is authorized to do