Miscellaneous

Man, the migrant stuff in Europe keeps piling up. This is a classic case of the elites screwing the ordinary people. Merkel and Co. live sheltered from the mess of living next door to migrants, just like Peggy Noonan pointed out last year in one of the best editorials of

BYCU This is one of those articles that make you want to go on an adventure and check out its subject matter: 10 Detroit Dive Bars You'll Love [http://hellyeahdetroit.com/10-detroit-dive-bars-youll-love/]. Until you realize it's, well, Detroit. And that they&

> "Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work." - St. John Neumann > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) January 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/684360545789722624]

I guess I'm behind the times. I just became aware of this funny cartoonist: Dave Coverly [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Coverly]. He grew up near me (our high schools battle in the same athletic conference), he's just slightly older than me, he attended Eastern

H.I.F: Frustrating This is the thing I've been complaining about for years: The elites, especially the media elite, allow their agenda, especially politically-correct agenda, override to run roughshod over accurate and full reporting. That's why I trust virtually nothing I read in the

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to ordinary time. First week. The brown volume. * * * * * * * Marie redecorated our family room (courtesy of insurance moneys from flood damage last fall). She and my eldest daughter concluded that the blue volume of the breviary fit into the decor. Hopefully, the brown volume fits as well. * * * * * * * I

> A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live & begins to live. -Thomas Merton pic.twitter.com/gmH1Lwgq5B [https://t.co/gmH1Lwgq5B] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) January 6, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/684600080007958529]

H.I.F: Interesting Warning: I think hell has frozen over. A politician in Europe has finally stated the obvious truth: > Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico formally stood up to the Brussels supergovernment juggernaut and said his government will not allow Muslims to create "a compact community,"

I implied a bit ago that Dalrymple seemed to have lost some zing on his essays, but he appears to be back on track. He penned this excellent piece [http://takimag.com/article/the_will_to_outrage_theodore_dalrymple/print#axzz3uiv8Uh9S] a few weeks ago, then followed it up with

"[A new study out of Stanford] found that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and it drops off so much after 55 hours that there's no point in working any more. That's right, people who work as much as 70