Happy Birthday Happy birthday to my lovely wife, Marie. I won't mention her age, but I will mention that, last Fall, while working at a long-running county fair food booth fundraiser, an elderly man remarked to her, "It's good to see you high school

Detroit I posted the following recently to an online group: > After watching Sugar Man, I went online to try to check out his old haunts. I started "dropping pins" on Google Maps, which enable you to get street views. It was pretty interesting to see ordinary Detroit

Catholics and Friends in Logic "Catholicism is logical." That was the warning uttered by Daniel Webster to Orestes Brownson when the lawyer saw young Orestes browsing a Catholic work in a bookstore. The Protetant Webster was telling him, "Don't wander too deep into those waters,

Bullets Best headline yesterday: "Coffee Shop Is Plagued By Violent Homeless Crowds [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/02/28/manager-says-chelsea-coffee-shop-is-plagued-by-violent-homeless-crowds/] ." The descriptive headline pretty much says it all. * * * * * * * Time to become an Indians fan: Cleveland Indians lower prices

BYCU (Kinda) Based on her credentials [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Brown], I think it's safe to say Tina Brown leans pretty heavily to the left. Because she leans left, it seems safe to say that her publication, The Daily Beast [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_

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

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

Raising the Minimum Wage Pretty much every economist outside of Obama's circle knows minimum wage laws create unemployment, artificially raise prices, and, in general, are a horrible idea. I mean, if it makes sense to raise the minimum wage to $9, why not $25? Once you start to

Sugar On Saturday evening, I watched one of the best documentaries I've ever seen: Searching for Sugar Man [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/]. The story told by the documentary has made a small media splash, so maybe you're acquainted with the story. If not, don&