Miscellaneous

The Noun Murderers Are medical personnel heroes? When our culture went gaga over the first responders (gender-neutral term . . . can't use "firemen") after 9/11, I went gaga too. Actually, I would start to cry a bit, thinking of all those young men charging up the towers,

I did my first podcast interview at TWE [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-blog-1/2020/4/22/bonus-episode]. Both technology-wise and interview-skill-wise, I have a ways to go, but thanks to Joe Condit for letting me experiment on him and Catholic Speakers Organization [https://catholicspeakers.com/inspireword]. Joe and I threw

Cutting Edge, Me I might just now be watching the first episode of Tiger King. I didn't know who Ed Sheeran was until I watched (the enjoyable) movie Yesterday. I don't even recognize most of the names on the Billboard Hot 100 (when did it stop

Strafing the Right Matthew Scully has made major inroads. Years ago (15, I'm guessing) he wrote a compelling piece for The American Conservative about the evils of factory farming. It convinced me. But TAC has always been an outlier of sorts. It has never tried to be conservative,

Inflationary COVID Well, dang. I thought we had peaked late last week, based on good numbers over the weekend. Not true. We apparently set a new death high yesterday [https://news.trust.org/item/20200414214724-hfp57]. Of course, if a plane crashed and some of the passengers had COVID, they'

Government Ain't Got No Soul Summary: Individuals can be touched by grace. Government can't. Grace tempers the individual. It can't temper the government. In June 2007, Michael Moore was promoting his movie Sicko. In an interview with U.S. News & World Report, he

Drudge Headlines Over the Past 12 Hours and My Reactions "All 50 states under disaster declaration for first time in history": That didn't happen when Masked Singer debuted? "Unclear whether patients are immune to second infection": And what, exactly, has been clear throughout this

Zero Hedge wonders whether there is a competition among governments to come up with the most dystopian over-reaction to social distancing problems. It suggests Tunisia has taken the lead by using an army helicopter to disperse a pick-up youth soccer game [https://www.zerohedge.com/health/watch-army-helicopter-used-disperse-youth-soccer-game-amid-virus-lockdown] . Tunisia has 707

New Episode Released Peak Crusades, Peak Middle Ages, Peak Mongols [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/4/12/episode-71-peak-crusades-peak-middle-ages-peak-mongols] I'm backtracking to 1190. I think you can call that “Peak Crusades.” You had the first crusade, which was pretty successful. They took Jerusalem and held it for nearly