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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]. __________ 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'

No Eudemon in Cleveland

Not on Youtube: Up to 15 people chased a man, then kicked and beat him to death on the street. Before police arrived, one attacker urinated on the victim's head [http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90KAU580&show_article=1]. It happened in Cleveland, "within

The Wednesday Eudemon

"Sandwich days." That's what I call this time of year because my day is "sandwiched" by obligations. I have to get the kids to school at 7:30 a.m. then be some place in the late afternoon, leaving no time for anything except

Tuesdays with the Eudemon

Actually, I should call this post "Tuesdays with the Anti-Eudemon." Not a lot of fun stuff out there today. Great piece over at City Journal about "creeping sharia." [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_cultural_jihadists.html] Excerpt: > [T]he Ayatollah Khomeini's