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Monday

Econ Monday My apologies for another econ post, but I suspect things are reaching a fever pitch right now, so . . . * * * * * * * I wrote on Saturday that it's probably time to get out of the market. The mad geniuses at Zero Hedge vehemently disagree. In this (perhaps unhinged) post, they&

Something for Sunday Morning

“The virtues perfect us so that we follow our natural inclinations in a fitting manner.” St. Thomas Aquinas

The Evening Eudemon

America's True History of Religious Tolerance http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Americas-True-History-of-Religious-Tolerance.html When George Washington dispatched Benedict Arnold on a mission to court French Canadians' support for the American Revolution in 1775, he cautioned Arnold not to let their religion

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12 Cool Products for Beer Drinkers http://www.toxel.com/tech/2010/09/23/12-cool-products-for-beer-drinkers/

Friday

Deep-Fried Beer and Other Forms of Beer Violence Oh, what the hey. I'll try it: Deep-fried beer [http://www.nationalreview.com/the-feed/246775/finally-deep-fried-beer]. "The beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil

Thursday

Thursday Miscellany You'll find me reading GQ about as often as Out, but I couldn't resist this piece: A series of quotes and memories from the cast and crew of GoodFellas, in celebration of its 20th anniversary [http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201010/

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The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803 Dozens of movies have portrayed the nineteenth-century mining camps in the West as hot beds of anarchy and violence, but John Umbeck

Wednesday

Autobiographical Corner Is there any metropolitan area more pathetic that Detroit? I attended a conference yesterday in Dearborn, at its crown jewel hotel, the Hyatt [http://dearborn.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp]. One of the sessions dealt with legal issues surrounding Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking. The speaker

The Evening Eudemon

The Ignorance of the New Yorker - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily http://mises.org/daily/4717 As Oscar Wilde put it more than a hundred years ago, “there is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch

Tuesday

Fahrenheit 451 to Gold. Connection Somewhere "Wells would have had man usurp the throne of God. Bradbury's hope is that man will let God work through him; it is not the dead universe which is divine, but 'God fleshing himself in sentience'--the living God