College visit with Jack

Yesterday Hillary Clinton admitted she is thinking about running for president. Though it would be more shocking if she admitted to ever thinking about anything else.

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

Random Quotes "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to give to the other." Voltaire. Actually, that's not a humorous quote, but it's rare you'll see me

I had to pick up Alex and Abbie from Ann Arbor yesterday for my father-in-law's birthday party. Traffic was horrible. The reason? 2014 Hash Bash, an annual celebration of marijuana that has been going on for 30+ years. I decided to check it out. I stood

From an Epstein essay, something I never knew: > [O]ne is reminded how much more intellectuals, making use of their minds, contributed to the British [World War II] effort than did their American counterparts. Graham Greene, Malcolm Muggeridge, Isaiah Berlin, Ryle, Hampshire, Ayer, Trevor-Roper, and many other English

A lecture on early medieval history talked about Charlemagne's efforts to convert the Saxons through use of a revised Bible that would appeal more to Saxon sensibilities. This passage cracked me up (I assume most TDE readers will recognize that it retells the story from the Garden of

Willie Nelson's stuffed armadillo has been returned after being stolen from a Las Vegas show. And I'm sure Willie was happy to get it back, considering what it's probably stuffed with.