Monday

I'm hopefully done with busy weekends. I had to go to Chicago on business this past one. It was a good time, but in the middle of a sub-zero cold snap and basketball season . . . not exactly a welcomed excursion. We went to Million Dollar Quartet Saturday night

Sunday

A Random Passage Malcolm Muggeridge was fond of quoting from an ancient inscription that was found in the Libyan desert: “I, the Captain of a Legion of Rome, serving in the desert of Libya, have learnt and pondered this truth: 'There are in life but two things to be

Saturday

A Random Passage "Nock thought universal literacy a useless goal, as most people can't do anything valuable with it anyway." Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism Actually, those passages by Nock about the ridiculousness of universal literacy are some of his most enjoyable. There's something

Conan

Bill Gates released a video of himself drinking water that was filtered from human excrement. No word yet on whether Gates got into the fraternity.

Friday

BYCU As I get steeped more deeply in vodka and gin, I'm enjoying the lost art of mixology. Well, it was a lost art. With the advent of Mad Men, things like infusing vodka with herbs/spices and using bitters [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters] have made

On Bombings

> "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." G.K. Chesterton. > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 9, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/553344955381743616]

Conan

According to a new report that just came out, the average college freshman reads at a seventh grade level. Or if you're an optimist every seventh grader now reads at a college freshman level.

Meyers

According to sources, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter is selling off $290 million of Picasso's work. That's enough money to put a smile on anyone's forehead. Lindsay Lohan was recently diagnosed with a rare mosquito-transmitted disease called chikungunya. And the mosquito was diagnosed

GKC Wednesday

Chesterton Short(s) Michael Coren recounts a great anecdote from Chesterton's years on Fleet Street: "Fleet Street was his domain, and he was as much a part of it as the El Vino and Cheshire Cheese watering holes which he frequented. Kenneth Baker, now a cabinet minister,

Book Review

Leisure, The Basis of Culture by John Pieper (1948). Choice quote: "[T]here can be unused space in the total world of work." Obsessed with efficiency? I am. At least I used to be. I'm a recovering efficiencoholic. It was bad, so bad that my time