Funny Fallon

After disputes over its nuclear program, Iran is threatening to stop exporting oil. Which means the U.S. may have to tap into its backup reserve: Mitt Romney's hair. Today President Obama visited a factory in Wisconsin that brought back 100 jobs from China. It's got

Friday BYCU

Slow drinking news week. Fortunately, I have been holding back this link to Doug Crockwell's series, "What Kind of Drinker Are You?" [http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/a/aa/drink/t.htm] There's enough drinking fodder to keep TDE readers amused until the effects

Thursday

From the Notebooks Nassim Taleb writes at the beginning of his first book, Fooled by Randomness: "We are still very close to our ancestors who roamed the savannah. The formation of our beliefs is fraught with superstitions--even today (I might say, especially today). Just as one day some

Good Late Night

The son of Hugh Hefner has been arrested on a charge of domestic violence. When he heard this, Hugh Hefner said, "Son, there's a right way and a wrong way to disrespect women." Conan On Valentine's Day, Americans spend $367 million on their pets.

Wednesday

Received in an Email The Bavarian Beer Purity Law [http://itotd.com/articles/519/the-bavarian-purity-law/]. Great stuff for the drinking historian. Excerpt: The short version of this law, which was enacted on April 23, 1516 by Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV (a.k.a. William IV), is that

Tuesday

Whining Liberal = Catholic I had to drive to Battle Creek yesterday afternoon, so I had a chance to listen to Rush Limbaugh for the first time since I heard him declare Ron Paul a "liberal." I've never listened to Rush much, but I'd always

Monday

Letters to Children You should also read C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and the fiction of George MacDonald. MacDonald, however, is difficult to read. If you can only bear to read one thing, please read his story “The Golden Key.” It is a bizarre little story that

Something for Sunday Morning

“Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.” Mother Teresa

Saturday

The big news this week? Flannery O'Connor. Not really, of course, but Dappled Things ran a great essay about O'Connor's influence on Bruce Springsteen [http://dappledthings.org/1148/naming-sin-flannery-oconnors-mark-on-bruce-springsteen/] . Excerpt: > Springsteen began reading O'Connor&

Friday

A TDE reader sent me a link to Forbes Craft Beer of the Day [http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/02/07/craft-beer-of-the-day-hop-mountain-by-old-dominion/?feed=rss_home] . It's a pretty cool feature. Problem is, I can't seem