I was absolutely swamped at the office last week, so when Trump fired Comey, I didn't have time to read anything about it at first. Instead, I simply caught blurbs here and there. I was thinking, "Boy, it really looks like Trump did it this time. This

Wow, full-on life blitz: office, family, garden. Every May, I say, "This May won't be so brutal like the past." And every May, I'm wrong. The number of obligations is stunning . . . and wearying. Fortunately, I continue to make time for a few weekday Masses

From the Gardening Journals The garden chronicles continue. On Monday, I got a half acre scraped off, which I was stoked to see. I then went out right after work to start churning the soil. I ran into a phenomenon that locals call "Sturgis top soil." I guess

“Live all you can, as complete and full a life as you can find–do as much as you can for others. Read, work, enjoy–love and help as many souls, do all this. Yes, but remember, be alone, be remote, be away from the world, be desolate. Then you

More Miscellaneous Rambling So, you don't know much about the Armenian genocide? You might want to consider learning about it. Incredibly sad. It was recently the subject of a Tom Woods Show podcast [http://tomwoods.com/ep-899-the-armenian-genocide/], which I recommend. This kind of thing really grates on me:

Miscellaneous Rambling This is, quite frankly, a no-brainer: Kansas City archdiocese breaks ties with Girl Scouts [http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=15513]. I should say, "It's a no-brainer on intellectual grounds." The Girl Scouts has deep, emotional ties with many good people. It&

> The plan is to scrape the new land tomorrow, till later next week, and start planting in six days. We'll see! > — MAXimum Greens (@GreensMaximum) May 7, 2017 [https://twitter.com/GreensMaximum/status/861196935738347522]

> "It is so easy to be wrong–and to persist in being wrong–when the costs of being wrong are paid by others." > — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2017 [https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/860155205123530753]

BYCU It was the Week of Michael: Away track meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we attended scholarship night at the drinking club where Michael received an award named after a deceased friend of mine (a fitting scholarship, since my friend was one of the funniest guys I knew and Michael

From the Bottom Line Personal [http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/]: "Women are the sole or primary earners in four out of every ten American households with children under the age of 18. This number has quadrupled since 1960."