Miscellaneous

In Pope Francis' latest weekly address, he criticized people who use their phones at the dinner table. Which begs the question: Who is on their phone while they eat dinner with the Pope? In a new interview, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will be more intelligent than humans in 10

What, you say, I referenced Romano Guardini yesterday but then wrote nothing about him, instead dedicating the day's primary post to Dostoyevsky? What am I, some sort of Serbian Orthodox with an anti-Catholic chip on my shoulder? No, not at all, but yesterday's post had already

Miscellaneous Rambling I received a copy of Merchants in the Temple [http://us.macmillan.com/merchantsinthetemple/gianluiginuzzi], which I've started reading. Expect commentary as I plow through. * * * * * * * TDE readers know I enjoy running good jokes from the late night shows, but man, they've been awful lately.

> Facebook keeps removing satyrical photo of Mizzou "cribullies". Retweet it. #MizzouHoax [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MizzouHoax?src=hash] #Mizzou [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mizzou?src=hash] #MissouriProtests [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MissouriProtests?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/5wW6rkIFqN [https://t.co/5wW6rkIFqN] > — James Parisi (@NY_2_

H.I.F. How bad was the racism at the University of Missouri? Pretty bad: an incident every 800 days. First the Michael Sam charade then this debacle. Missouri has become a joke. Well, all higher education is a joke, but somehow, Missouri has gotten itself in the idiot vanguard.

Paris The Paris horror [http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/paris-attack/415953/?utm_source=SFTwitter] . I'm just shaking my head. Western imperial policies over the past 100 years and a religion rife with violence have combined to create a terrible, terrible situation. Part of me just

BYCU Booze lists often leave me cold. Even though I like lists and like booze, it seems many of the lists are, well, "contrived." I'm not sure that's the correct word, but almost like the authors are just reaching for script to fill their

I enjoy works that impart broader truths in the context of a narrower subject. A great example from Kingsley Amis' Everyday Drinking: > Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a

One of the more interesting pieces I've seen lately [https://mises.org/library/activists-seek-impoverish-thai-villagers-save-monkeys-slavery] , though the prose is pretty rough. I didn't even know the protest idiots had been targeting monkey labor practices. This article discusses it, as well as the severe shortcomings of the protests

Are sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll taking their toll? Steve Sailer thinks it's possible, as he analyzes the increasing death rates among the baby boom generation [http://www.unz.com/isteve/is-there-a-generational-explanation-for-rising-white-death-rates/] . Excerpt: > I think there is definitely a pattern in that coming of age in the Late