Enjoy today and the resulting four-day week.

"The hostages were given a test: recite verses from the Quran, or be punished, according to a witness. Those who passed were allowed to eat. Those who failed were slain." Yahoo News AP Story [https://www.yahoo.com/news/commandos-storm-dhaka-restaurant-6-attackers-dead-13-050930701.

Rush explains why Hillary won't be [http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/07/01/we_re_being_played_by_the_clintons] indicted. He's spot on: > These are Democrats first. I know people want to believe that we still have people who will still put institutions

Summer Tom Blues There ain't no cure for the Summer Tom [hangover] Blues . . . Black raspberries grow wild in my neighborhood. I met with the vodka master yesterday morning, and he told me black raspberries would probably work great in lieu of blueberries. He was right. I mixed up

"It is human to need the Sabbath. The U.S. military found this out the hard way back in the 1940s. In order to make ambitious quotas, the government asked its munitions plants to extend the workweek to seven days, round the clock. Most plants complied, but some didn&

"My love of peace and quiet inclines me always to want to do nothing. This drag to take my ease is like the pull of gravity. Will it always be so? My first impulse is always to say no. God forgive me for this unwillingness which pollutes all my

Miscellaneous Rambling World Youth Day 2016 starts next month. My daughter Abbie still gets elated, thinking about her experience in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. I never knew what exactly to think about WYD, but after seeing its effects first-hand, I endorse it. This WYD is in Krakow. This

Miscellaneous Rambling Return from Vacation Day. It's not nearly as sad as it sounds, but then again, I worked most of Friday and a little bit on Saturday, so it's not like I'm walking back into a hell hole of uncertainty. Like most things,

"Dwight Eisenhower, who had admired Hitler's autobahn and got one of his own: the tellingly titled National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Cohesive working-class neighborhoods in countless American cities were sacrificed to the Road Warriors." Bill Kauffman. The destruction of Detroit's Corktown

The Telegraph had perhaps the best passage I read yesterday about Brexit [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/britains-decision-to-leave-the-eu-is-hillary-clintons-worst-nigh/] , in speculating what the vote could mean for Trump: > As Brexit proves, working people around the world are in