Miscellaneous

> The Unreal, Eerie Emptiness of China's 'Ghost Cities' | WIRED https://t.co/GXlfbJy1f0 > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 20, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/701021253193310208]

Whatta horrible week to be an American Catholic. 1. We lose Justice Scalia. No more needs to be said. 2. Our Pope makes political statements, all-but saying that, if Donald Trump believes what he says about immigration, he's not a Christian, which is, depending on a number

A TDE reader sent this picture to me last weekend. Whatta great find. "Pub crawl your way through the sacred seasons with this entertaining and useful collection of cocktail recipes, distilled spirits, beer, and wine for virtually every occasion on the Catholic liturgical calendar. One part bartender's

> Trump and the Pope https://t.co/SJ65nZYd7Z > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 19, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/700503848918470656]

From the Gardening Journals Gardener extraordinaire, Carol Deppe, channels Nassim Taleb and Albert Jay Nock in this passage about gardening: > As part of our bias toward seeing stories, we tend to interpret sequences of events in terms of causation. We see cause where there is only correlation. I think

H.I.F. I remember hearing about five years ago that governments would try to ban paper money so they could better control the subjects. I thought, "Yeah, right. You conspiracy nuts will believe anything. if that actually happens, I'll buy into all the conspiracy theories."

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

“[H]ypermobility . . . is the great undiagnosed sickness of our age.” p. 89. “Today we know Mother Jones primarily as the name of a magazine for consumerist liberals whose idea of a radical act is selling their R.J. Reynolds stock and buying Starbucks. The real Mother Jones–Irish-born Mary

Miscellaneous Rambling Sanders' free tuition program? It's a way to funnel even more money to the universities, of course, which overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party. That, I trust, everyone knows. But did you know it's also a way to funnel money into pensions? American Thinker

"[Justice Ruth] Ginsburg once said that Scalia was 'an absolutely charming man, and he can make even the most sober judge laugh.' She said that she urged her friend to tone down his dissenting opinions 'because he'll be more effective if he is not