Risk Taking
Rage in the Manhattan Cage
I saw a piece from New York Magazine making cyberwaves last week, but I decided
not to post about it until I had a chance to read it. I read it during my
nephew's baseball game on Saturday: The Wail of the 1%
Current Affairs
Traitors and Dead Horses
Lead Story
FBI's newest 'Most Wanted' terrorist is American
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_domestic_terrorist].
Great headline, that. But when you actually read the story, you quickly discern
that the headline is misleading:
> A fugitive
Tuesday Miscellany
New Chesterton books that I hadn't heard of until last weekend: The Essential
Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I: Non-Fiction
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604591579/thedailyeudem-20] and The
Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton
[http://www.batteredbox.com/GardnerMartin/FantasticFictionChesterton.htm]. The
first is merely a commercial
Wednesday Miscellany
Whew, things have exploded around the office. After the October 2008 Stock
Crash, things really slowed down at the office. I was always busy (thankfully),
but it was a leisurely-paced busy. Enjoyable busy, if not as lucrative. But now,
it feels like pre-2008 Crash again. It's a good
Tuesday Miscellany
A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but
didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical
Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html].
> We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of a
No Blogging Saturday
Why one African-American Christian won't vote for Obama
[http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp].
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George Weigel has written the best article I've seen on the whole Obama
Catholic
mess [http://www.newsweek.com/id/163896/page/1]. From the conclusion:
> Biden is not
Tuesday Miscellany
Nice day yesterday for the portfolio. How long will it continue? I'm just hoping
long enough to get my money back. I'm not optimistic in the long run. From Ron
Paul yesterday in Slate
[http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2008/10/13/sickness-unto-debt]:
> In
Harlem
For the past couple of years, I have kept a volume of Daniel Boorstin
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin]'s trilogy, The Americans, at
my side. When you sit back and consider the amount of details and facts he puts
in, seemingly effortlessly (which, of course,
The Saturday Eudemon
This kind of thing fascinates me: One of South America's few remaining
uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border
between Brazil and Peru [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm]. I
thought you'd have to go to New Guinea,
Porn Tax?
California considering a porn tax
[http://snafu-ed.blogspot.com/2008/05/california-considers-porn-tax-to-reduce.html]
? I found this story at an odd news RSS feed. But is it so odd? I wrote an op-ed
rough draft seven years ago, proposing a similar thing. I've cut-and-pasted it
below, and I'