Ferguson

We're getting more news about the Orlando Bloom-Justin Bieber fight. Apparently the fight was witnessed by Paris Hilton, P. Diddy, and Lindsay Lohan. I'm confused. Did this fight take place in Spain or in 2003? A woman in Oklahoma called police to complain about the

Saturday

A Random Passage "Old people, alone, as a class, have the time to be young." Henry Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. (Not an exact quote, but very close)

Interesting

H.I.F. "What he found is a “pyx” – a small, gold, frame-like object used to carry the Catholic church's Holy Eucharist. The pyx was part of 1715 wreckage that sank there 299 years ago today." Link [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/31/

Friday

BYCU Back in my beer-drinking days, I loved keg beer. Whenever I helped set up for a party, I was in charge of putting the tap on and getting the foam out . . . a job I attacked with white-mustached zest. When I went to the bar, I always asked,

Interesting

H.I.F. Is this Athens, Georgia or Athens, Greece? Cops Attack Gay Couple In Athens For Holding Hands [http://www.newnownext.com/cops-attack-gay-couple-in-athens-for-holding-hands-today-in-gay/07/2014/] . Home of the Sacred Band of Thebes, Patroclus and Achilles, and a host

An Unusual History

I've been slowly making my way through Peter Marshall [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Marshall_(author)]'s Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism . At the rate I'm going, and given the length of the book (841 pages), I figure I'll finish

Barzun

I bought this book when it came out: From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun. I've never read it, primarily because it hasn't fit in with any of the projects I've worked on over

GKC Wednesday

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Meyers

A restaurant in New York has created the Rice Burger, which replaces normal burger buns with rice patties. The restaurant also replaces customers with empty chairs.

Letterman

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the largest single transmission of deadly germs is a handshake. You're lucky, because the most popular form of greeting here in New York is the middle finger.