Facebook

"Facebook has more followers than Buddha." Evan Hessel, Forbes, 9/7/09, p 80. Great line. It's accurate (fb has 250m members, Buddhism something fewer). It's clever, it's tightly-written, and it either required the writer to research the number of Buddhists

iPhone Blogging Activated

Or not? Please bear with me these next few days as I experiment with mobile blogging. I will have my normal daily post (though light, as mentioned earlier), but, if this works, additional twitter-type posts. Don't worry, I won't be posting about sartorial, hygenic, or

Max

-- Experimental mobile post

The Wednesday Eudemon

Flannery Conservative Catholics can't get enough of Flannery O'Connor. At First Things this week: Review/essay of Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor. [http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/08/flannery-without-the-faith] Nicely done. Excerpt: > Gooch traces

Tuesday Patchwork

Questioning Abe? I've been following this guy [http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/SouthernAvenger/archives/2009/08/22/the-nyts-on-lincoln-giving-license-to-rape] off-and-on for a few months now. A southern boy who writes for, among others, the Greek Taki. I pretty much agree with

Monday Miscellany

Sticking It to the Middle Class "Budget cuts have hit public colleges hard, even as the demand for a well-educated workforce soars [http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/budget-cuts-take-toll-on-education_print.htm] ." That's the headline from

Something for Sunday Morning

"Apart from knowledge of his Creator, every man is but a brute." St. Jerome

Brews You Can Use

Helping Weather the Recession These gents have performed a nice public service. Scary at parts, but a nice service nonetheless: Cheap Booze Taste Test [http://www.zug.com/live/82078/Crappy-Consumer-Reports-Cheap-Booze-Taste-Test.html] . Some of the best booze pictures I've seen lately and

Thursday

'Bout Freakin' Time, Warren In case you missed it yesterday, Warren Buffett finally jumped off cheerleader mode [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/opinion/19buffett.html?_r=1&ref=opinion] . He even let the great secret behind fiat money [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money]

The Wednesday Eudemon

The Disappearing Art: Doing Nothing While sitting on a bench outside a shop in Potemkin Bavaria [http://www.frankenmuth.org/] last weekend, I reached for my iPhone. I had 10-15 minutes to kill while my wife and children shopped, so I thought I'd do some Internet surfing,