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From the Bottom Line Personal [http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/]: "Caffeine withdrawal is now a mental-health disorder," according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders." But the urge to engage in sodomy isn't. Fine state of affairs at the APA.

Thaddeus on Howard

I still haven't gotten through Zinn's A People's History of the United States, partly because my attention has been diverted to early medieval history and partly because I bought the iBook version that doesn't work on my Kindle, but I've

Wednesday

My favorite essayist (Jewish or otherwise) asks a good question. In a review essay of a T.S. Eliot biography, Joseph Epstein writes: > But might it be allowed that one can write or say anti-Semitic things without being an anti-Semite? Eliot is guilty of the former, but

Humorous

H.I.F. Drudge killed me with this morning's headline: "Let the Gaymes Begin." It's the link to this article [http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/rights-group-releases-video-of-lgbt-attacks-in-russia/?_php=true&_type=blogs&src=

Tuesday

Miscellaneous Rambling Professor Charles Rice used to comment during jurisprudence class that a person didn't need long hair and sandals to be a radical. A person just needed to be a good Catholic. I've long sympathized with that observation. It was brought to mind when I

Essay

Frankenstein's Mom was a Liberal It was a freaky night at Lake Geneva in Switzerland: chilly for a summer evening, relentlessly rainy. Then again, most nights were rainy that year. A volcanic eruption the previous year in Tambora, Indonesia, in 1815 had spewed tons of ash into the

Sunday

A Random Passage “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That's something that should be on a Hallmark card, but it's true nonetheless.

Saturday

Miscellaneous Rambling Four points for a 50-yard field goal? Bad idea and not necessary. The reward for a long field goal is built into the game: you get three points, even though your lame offense didn't advance the ball very far. * * * * * * * I think the NFL will nix

Good Late Night

"The forecast for Sunday's Super Bowl has improved in the last week. It's expected to be in the mid-30s with winds of only 6 miles an hour. That's a good temperature for New Jersey. It's above freezing but not so

BYCU

BYCU Indiana has a blue [Christmas] law that prohibits alcohol sales on December 25th. An Indiana officer received a tip that an Indiana store had sold alcohol on Christmas, so she started an investigation. They're now spanking all sorts of small stores throughout the Hoosier state [http://www.