Miscellaneous Rambling I realized after posting that link to my Russell Kirk piece that it was published 14 years ago. Man, I'm getting old. And given that I worked on it for a few years (off and on), my thoughts in the piece reflect a man nearly twenty

Miscellaneous Rambling I dislike "Monday the 13th" more than "Friday the 13th." Article for my kids: Why You Should Stay in Your Hometown [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/11/why-you-should-stay-in-your-hometown.html] . The answer is, "permanence." It's worth reading. Excerpt: "The benefits

So did my appeal to President Trump to roll out a program for our peaceful Mexican immigrants [http://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=42096] have the opposite effect? Reports of Raids Have Immigrants Bracing for Enforcement Surge [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/immigration-raids-enforcement.html?_r=0]. I must say,

Great piece by Jeffrey Tucker: What Happens When Trump Takes Over the Vatican? [https://fee.org/articles/what-happens-when-trump-takes-over-the-vatican/] But the title is misleading. It's really an article about HBO's new series, The Young Pope, a series that I assumed would be highly disrespectful but apparently isn&

Brews You Can Use I like the quasi-religious moments. I had one last Friday. I'd had another brutal week at the office, which I concluded with a trip to a Kalamazoo doctor. I then drove back south to meet Jack (my college son) at a pub in the

Jason Scott Jones has written one of the better pieces of the young year: On Immigration, Winning Cheap Grace [https://stream.org/on-immigration-winning-cheap-grace/]. > The great theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote scathingly of “cheap grace,” which is the warm fuzzy feeling we give ourselves, and the praise we win from others,

Supposedly, on top of the Empire State building. I suffer from vertigo, but I think I'd rather be the upside-down guy 100 stories in the sky than the dude in the middle on the ground.

The world's most expensive Lego brick, made out of 14 karat gold, just sold online for $15,000. The new owner says he's pleased to add it to his collection and it just got vacuumed up by his mom.

Miscellaneous Rambling The one thing I can say in support of allowing Muslim immigrants: They have a much better chance of converting to Christianity here than they do in their countries (where they would face things like, you know, decapitation if they converted). Al Kresta had a segment last week

Miscellaneous Rambling I haven't followed the immigration order as much as I ought, but I had to listen to a man I respect express concern with it because, among other things, it hurts the farmers. I didn't know what to say in response, so I just