Current Affairs

Sad stuff [http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070330/wl_csm/odanube]: > When Johann Strauss gazed upon Europe's grandest waterway 140 years ago, it inspired him to compose the Blue Danube Waltz, went on to become an unofficial anthem of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. > Today, the

I could've called this "The Lying Eudemon." Yesterday I said that I had Friday off and was going to use the time to read and write. Well, that wasn't quite accurate. My wife and The Seven are gone for the weekend, and I have

Beyonce on cover of Sports Illustrated [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251846,00.html]! Beyonce on cover of Sports Illustrated! I've seen that headline at least three times in the past 18 hours. Now, I have little doubt that Beyonce is good-looking, but who in

Catholics holding steady at 17.2% of the world's population [http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=102831]. Goodness knows, I'm doing my part. Prima facie dumb story of the day: Chimpanzees may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300

If you think Prince's phallic shadow at the Super Bowl halftime show [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250581,00.html] was coincidental, you didn't listen to much Prince back in the 1980s. I find if funny, in the sense that the whole halftime show

Charter Communications has gone down again at my house and my neighbor's house, but it's fine at the office. Junk service, but I've gotten some decent stuff around this morning: Border agent convicted of crime and put in prison. Hispanic inmates beat him silly

Is 2007 the year of the puritan devil? I'm a little scared. Here's the deal: During January, I have drank beer or wine six times, anywhere from two to five drinks. Each time, I woke up the next morning with a hangover. Nothing nasty, just a

Odd feast day today: The Conversion of St. Paul. It's odd because it's an event. The major feasts (Christmas, Easter, etc.) are also events, but most non-obligatory feast days are saint feast days (St. John, St. Thomas, St. John Kennedy [for my Boston readers], etc.

There's some pretty good stuff out there this morning: Microsoft has been caught trying to pay a blogger to edit its Wikipedia entry [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_wikipedia]. It's no crime, and there are no allegations that the