Miscellaneous

Bullets I met Marie thirty years ago today. We met in a bar. She was 18 and needed someone to buy her alcohol. I was 20 and had a fake i.d. Thirty years . . . and many bars . . . later, we're still together. Upset alert: Michigan: Maryland is playing tough

BYCU This story has it all [http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/amid-disappointing-sales-bud-light-calls-early-end-its-rogen-schumer-campaign-174341] : Bud Lite doing poorly and its ads with the lamentable Amy Schumer doing poorly.

Miscellaneous Rambling "Since the first debate, there's a sharp drop in undecided voters in the polling averages. As people make up their minds, Trump is up and Libertarian Gary Johnson is down [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/01/as-people-make-up-their-minds-trump-is-up-and-johnsons-down/] ." Makes sense. Gary

Not a bad All Saints Day harvest: On top of these harvest remnants, we have oodles and oodles of lettuce, spinach, and kale.

Miscellaneous Rambling "Calling the saints to mind inspires, or rather arouses in us, above all else, a longing to enjoy their company, so desirable in itself. We long to share in the citizenship of heaven, to dwell with the spirits of the blessed, to join the assembly of patriarchs,

Miscellaneous Rambling Another Halloween is upon us. And my streak of 21 straight years of trick-or-treating is getting snapped. Meg (15) wants to take Max (13) and Tess (11) out tonight. I thought the little kids would be disappointed, but no. I think their reaction was, "Okay. Doesn'

> How rotten this administration is to the core when the attorney general takes the Fifth to avoid incrimination https://t.co/EuVmAFk4JT > — Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) October 29, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/792476966293217281] Everyone, remember what the Fifth Amendment says: no person "shall be

> In order to live the religious life in any of its forms, exterior silence is indispensable: https://t.co/JJv8vXzavx > — Sophia Inst. Press (@SophiaInsPress) October 28, 2016 [https://twitter.com/SophiaInsPress/status/792037028233940992]

> As prophetic as it was cutting. Tolkien's response when the Nazis asked whether he had Jewish ancestors. https://t.co/Zliq7UpggN > — Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) October 28, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/792030431210311680]