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Thursday Scrambling

Busier than Phyllis Diller at the hairdresser's. No time for blogging. Just a few quick things: Weird Russian stuff, Episode 298,991: A Russian woman ended up in intensive care after restoring her virginity for the sixth time [http://mosnews.com/weird/2009/06/17/virginity/]. Odd penny

Wal-Mart Wednesday

Employment at Wally World Yesterday, the glory of managing a McDonald's. Today, the glory of working at Wal-Mart. EconTalk's podcast this week is an interview with Charles Platt, a journalist who "went undercover" and got a job at Wal-Mart [http://www.econtalk.

Job Tuesday

Hand Me that Spatula! A writer sends out three hundred rÃ©sumÃ©s in response to job postings [http://www.esquire.com/print-this/best-job-searches-0709-2]. He got only eight interviews and only two real prospects: "I applied for about three hundred jobs. I applied to

Monday Miscellany

Evil Marriage I've harped on this point before [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=7874]: the marriage of big government and big business. The nuptials have been going on since the 17th century. It infuriated Belloc and Chesterton, and it ought to infuriate the rest of us, but we just

Something for Sunday Morning

"God makes use of little things to act in souls." Francis Fernandez

Brews You Can Use

Moose Drool? The best-selling craft beer in Montana: Moose Drool [http://beerreport.com/news/montanas-best-brown-ale]. The writer at the Beer Report calls it "a terrific and compulsively-drinkable beer" (and all of us non-winos could use a little more such compulsion). The LA

Mini-Book Reviews

Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. Age of Aquarius Squirming Absolute classic. I read this book about twelve years ago, and I loved every second of it. I learned the meaning of "pneumatic antinomianism," and I've been casually dropping

GKC to Mosques

Prayerful Imbibers, Rejoice! While I was editor of Gilbert Magazine, I often heard this topic bantered about: Was G.K. Chesterton a saint? I always thought to myself, "I don't know, but man, the guy liked to toss back the wine, as well as an assortment of

Guns and Stuff

Gasoline-Powered Turtleneck Sweater? Yesterday I received one of the oddest catalogues I've ever seen: Hammacher Schlemmer: Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 161 years [http://www.hammacher.com/]. The stuff is neat, but pricey. They offer a contraption that allows you to burn CDs

Monday Miscellany

Twitter Monday Some weekends get away. That was mine. Between two evening baseball games, a high school graduation, and a wicked hangover Saturday morning (brought on by a mere two beers--is there no justice?), I entered Sunday evening with nothing in mind for Monday's post. I scoured