Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the longest day of the year. If you want to know more about the summer solstice than I, click here [http://www.vox.com/2016/6/19/11966856/summer-solstice-2016]. So what saint can we spend the longest day of the year imitating? None. According to my

Pretty much sums it up: Government programs = reallocation of wealth = reallocation to those closest to the people doing the reallocating.

Bullets Curses! Trader Joe outlets in Michigan don't sell liquor! Dang. I was really looking forward to trying their Jail House Gin. The garden is in full swing. We snagged over $100 worth of strawberries, with a few quarts still left in the tank. The peas were really

I know TDE is a reward in itself: the witticisms, whimsy, erudition, humility. But once in awhile, I like to give TDE a tangle benefit. Today is that day. I learned about the vodka pictured above from a friend who used to distill and sell his own vodka. His vodka

"The Bushies and their courtiers, who know as little of our history as Janet Jackson knows of Jane Austen, haven't the faintest idea that Republicans have often been the party of peace and non-interference in foreign wars. As President Benjamin Harrison once remarked, 'We have no

Ah, so it's not unique to me: "Thief, hypocrite, lacking in hospitality, charity, and brotherly love, lazy, a malingerer, expecting others to do all the work while I went traveling around the country, a liar, cheat, deceiver, perverter of Peter's teaching. People have so trembled

Miscellaneous Rambling A page of my life will come to a close this week. After ten seasons as a dugout coach (actually, nine as dugout coach, one as head coach), my last regular season little league game is this Friday. I admit: I'm greatly looking forward to it.

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Fifty dead. Unbelievable. I have nothing to add, except the obvious: America and Islam are incompatible. That doesn't mean the majority of Muslims cannot live here peaceably, but I'm not sure how we separate the good ones from the bad, so I'

> In 1980 there were only 101 breweries in the United States. Today there are over 4000. #Progress [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Progress?src=hash] #beer [https://twitter.com/hashtag/beer?src=hash] #Murica [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Murica?src=hash] > — Drunken History (@DrunkenHistory) June 5, 2016 [https://twitter.

BYCU My small town had a stroke of good fortune this month: a new Meijer store opened up here. It's the third biggest in Michigan. I took my daughters there for our first visit Wednesday night and was greatly impressed. I don't care much for shopping,