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Saturday

Weekend Miscellany Glorious day: Very few commitments, other than two girls soccer games. If I get out in time, I'll stroll over to the high school baseball field and volunteer in the concession stand for awhile. It's supposed to be 56 and sunny with zero chance

Friday

BYCU Walgreens is getting rid of wine. Marie picked me up these bottles of Liberty Creek sweet red. Pretty sweet find. I plan on cracking one tonight, unless I opt for the Barefoot sweet red that Walgreens was also blowing out. Brutal week. Due to some administrative incompetence, a cracked

Thursday

From the Notebooks In The Guinea Pig Diaries, A.J. Jacobs engages in intense experiments of the subjective sort: he uses himself, the guinea pig, to test ideas and phenomenon. Each chapter of the book describes the results. In “My Outsourced Life,” he wants to know what it's

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Wednesday

Whew. I have a backlog of great articles to mention. Some new, some a bit older. I'm going to take a triple chomp out of the backlog this morning. Here we go . . . Ross I'm repeatedly enthused about young Ross Douthat. The Catholic convert and Chesterton fan

Tuesday

Anarchists in NYC Tolstoy, Ellul, Proudhon, Rothbard. Those are just a few of the anarchists that have eschewed violence and revolution. There have been many others. No matter. Anarchists have been consistently painted by the press as violent scoundrels. It raises the real specter of the intertwined pillars of power

Monday

Bullets If you live in northern Indiana or southwestern Michigan, you might want to check out the 9th Annual Men's Conference in Kalamazoo this weekend. I know the people who are putting it together. You can expect a reverent, orthodox, entertaining, and well-organized event. Patrick Madrid is

Sunday

Garden almost ready for planting.

Saturday

Not much today. The Springsteen concert Thursday night went very late, then we came home to out-of-town company and Abbie's final high school play. A few quick words on Springsteen: You better be a HUGE fan, if you go to his concert. He started an hour

Friday

It's been years since I spent more than $10 on a bottle of wine, but I bought this bottle a bottle of Marietta Old Vine earlier this week. I'm waiting for a special occasion to drink it. I suspect the special occasion will arrive in a