Chesterton Short(s) A GKC sighting of sorts, through Terry Teachout, editor of the Second Mencken Chrestomathy, writing about Chesterton's contemporary (and occasional critic) H.L. Mencken: "He is the apostle of common sense." Was this an intentional parallel to GKC? I haven't the

Top Ten List: You might have a book obsession if: 10. You'll never be able to finish all the books you've started. 9. You're kinda surprised there's not a medical term to describe a disordered erotic attraction to books. 8. You don&

Tuesday Trifles Good weekend here. I got all my garden stuff in, except those items that I am purposefully holding back to produce a staggered harvest. * * * * * * * I had a rough time with tomatoes and sweet peppers this year. Only 30 of my sweet peppers germinated and my tomato seedlings don&

From Reddit's Today I Learned: "TIL that in 2008 Detroit police used SWAT tactics to raid a party at an art museum. Guns drawn, they forced everyone to the floor before searching every attendee and confiscating over 40 vehicles... all because the museum didn't have

http://i.imgur.com/08tLQUH.jpg The market is kinda like nature. You can keep beating it down, but unless you ruthlessly stomp it out like Lenin and Stalin did, it'll keep pushing forward, just like prairie land is overtaking once-concretized Detroit.

The BYCU article I linked to yesterday referenced this nifty piece: Catholic Church opens a bar [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2015/03/cheers-catholic-church-opens-a-bar/] . "[A] bar recently opened in northern France with the backing of the Catholic Church. Bar Cana in Lille launched

* Scientists working on The Syracuse University Lava Project have discovered how to grill a steak using lava. The hard part is getting the cow up on the volcano.

* A new report says that 80 percent of sunscreens either don't work or have questionable ingredients. In a related story, I don't have long to live.

* Vladimir Putin reportedly scored eight goals during a hockey game in Sochi this weekend. And the goalie only had one save: his own life.