The Shortage Where did all the people go? In our community, we have a lawyer shortage, a computer technician shortage, a construction contractor shortage, a doctor shortage, a substitute teacher shortage. And those are just ones I can think of without trying. Everyone is crazy busy; nobody has time to

Fiction for the Digital Age and Sowell There's Always Something New Under the Sun Department: Microfiction. It's a short story in 300 or fewer words. Or, according to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction], 100 or fewer words. If you're wordy, you

The Waiting Calm before the drinking storm. Free, sober weekend now. Liver Armeggedon starts next weekend. Next Thursday, I'm taking a virtual tour of a Bardstown bourbon distillery, complete with a gift box of bourbon delivered ahead of time, courtesy of my firm's library vendor. The

"Monday Night Football Ratings Crash," ratings "way down," "NFL ratings take a huge hit." It sounds like, if it weren't for Tom Brady's inaugural game with Tampa Bay, it would've been a catastrophic opening weekend for the NFL.

Rogan and Drudge So, Rogan left California and moved to Texas. I'm guessing Texas' income tax rate (zero) looks pretty good next to California's (12.3%). If he's bringing in $10,000,000 per year, that's $1,230,000 a year

Everyone is "atwitter" about what has happened to Matt Drudge. The Jewish Drudge has always been friendly to libertarian and Catholic sentiments, with a conservative streak. Starting at the beginning of 2020, however, he turned hard left . . . or at least, "Hard Anti-Trump." His negative COVID

Sports and Ghosts Ha. People said sports will never be the same. They were wrong. The Lions blew another big lead on opening day. I think this is the third year in a row. I hear the woke coverage of NCAA football was pretty bad on Saturday. I wasn'

Me to a young man who read the McLuhan piece at Medium [https://medium.com/the-apeiron-blog/cell-phones-radio-driving-and-the-philosophy-of-marshall-mcluhan-9d0071c3eb53] (which is trending well, btw) and is interested in the effects of social media Given your interest in the effects of

Garden Writing is About More than Plants The biographical, philosophical, meditational, and countercultural world of American gardening literature Riddle: What literary genre has historical roots that predate Socrates; features hundreds of American writers including Thoreau, Washington Irving, and Edith Wharton; and is a genre that you've probably never

A long-time question of mine finally answered: Why Can't You Wear White After Labor Day? [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12424/why-cant-you-wear-white-after-labor-day] The article says that the number of rich Americans increased dramatically around 1900. In order to distinguish the