Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling: Detroit An old philosophical problem: If you're sitting in an otherwise pitch black room with a single candle burning it, are you noticing the candle or the darkness? I traveled to downtown Detroit Friday night. My in-laws told me about a great cocktail bar in Corktown

Miscellaneous Rambling: Football About once a year, I see one of my teams get so spiflicated by bad referring that I doubt the integrity of the game. Normally, it is with the Detroit Lions, who, as ESPN's Mike Wilbon (a Bears fan) noted last year, "How many

Welcome to Advent. I enter mine worn out and weary. I'm hoping to rebound. If you need a boost, too, maybe these will help. From GKC's The Everlasting Man: “Any agnostic or atheist whose childhood has known a real Christmas has ever afterwards, whether he likes

I'm glad Marie has a good sense of humor. She got her London pictures back earlier this week. She was whipping through them, handing them to the kids and me with quick commentary. She handed this one to us and said, "This is 10 Downing Street, where

Random Welcome to Black Friday. If you're reading this, you realize you have better things to do today than to rip our your soul in order to save $250 on a big-screen TV. Congratulations. This is basically a four-day holiday for me, so I don't have

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton “Gratitude is characteristic only of the humble. The egotistic are so

Black Wednesday I'll confess a conceit: I think I became aware of Black Wednesday before anyone else. When I first started talking about it in the late 1980s, it was scarcely "a thing," in the sense that nobody looked at it as a cultural phenomenon as

The major op-ed in Monday's Post, by editorial editor Fred Hiatt, was titled, “The Fight to Defend Democracy,” implying American democracy is imperiled by a Trump presidency. The Post's lead editorial, “An un-American Registry,” compares a suggestion of Trump aides to build a registry of Muslim

More Miscellaneous Rambling Special BYCU, Black Wednesday, edition coming tomorrow. As of this writing, I don't know what I'll drink about, but I'm sure something will come to me. Message to Englanders: Start pumping out boys! It's like London is the opposite

Miscellaneous Rambling I don't like dogs. Well, I thought I didn't like dogs. After my trip to London, it appears I don't like American dogs. I don't like American dogs because they invade my space: my ears with their barking, my heart