Miscellaneous

> "It is so easy to be wrong–and to persist in being wrong–when the costs of being wrong are paid by others." > — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 4, 2017 [https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/860155205123530753]

BYCU It was the Week of Michael: Away track meet on Tuesday. On Wednesday, we attended scholarship night at the drinking club where Michael received an award named after a deceased friend of mine (a fitting scholarship, since my friend was one of the funniest guys I knew and Michael

From the Bottom Line Personal [http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/]: "Women are the sole or primary earners in four out of every ten American households with children under the age of 18. This number has quadrupled since 1960."

There's more weight to this parody than might first appear: > Geneticists Debate Ethics Of Cloning Humans And Forcing Them To Fight To Death In Pit For Our Amusement https://t.co/2si7i9gkPs pic.twitter.com/0sSKyxiebI [https://t.co/0sSKyxiebI] > — The Onion (@TheOnion) May 2, 2017

Miscellaneous Rambling If you know vampire lore, you'll like "What We Do in the Shadows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows]." It's easiest the funny movie I've seen this year, and it's short (1:25)

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy May Day, you Commie symps. Speaking of totalitarian secular ideologies, I heard the other day that, in the early days of the German Nazi movement, Nazi youth would flood parks and blow whistles when people with a different point of view stood up to speak, so no

Happy birthday to oldest son, Alex, my only kid who works harder than me. If you need a home loan, give him a call at QuickenLoans. (You're surprised I would shill like that for a mortgage lender? He's going to be even more surprised to learn

A 1,000-pack of beer. Finland.

BYCU Thursday evening, 6:45. I'm sitting down with my first gin and tonic tonic and gin after a miserable day. I started at the dentist office, where I had an implant put in. I was told it's "easy peasy," but man, I'