Miscellaneous

From Reddit's Today I Learned: "TIL that in 2008 Detroit police used SWAT tactics to raid a party at an art museum. Guns drawn, they forced everyone to the floor before searching every attendee and confiscating over 40 vehicles... all because the museum didn't have

http://i.imgur.com/08tLQUH.jpg The market is kinda like nature. You can keep beating it down, but unless you ruthlessly stomp it out like Lenin and Stalin did, it'll keep pushing forward, just like prairie land is overtaking once-concretized Detroit.

The BYCU article I linked to yesterday referenced this nifty piece: Catholic Church opens a bar [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2015/03/cheers-catholic-church-opens-a-bar/] . "[A] bar recently opened in northern France with the backing of the Catholic Church. Bar Cana in Lille launched this month as part of

* Scientists working on The Syracuse University Lava Project have discovered how to grill a steak using lava. The hard part is getting the cow up on the volcano.

* A new report says that 80 percent of sunscreens either don't work or have questionable ingredients. In a related story, I don't have long to live.

* Vladimir Putin reportedly scored eight goals during a hockey game in Sochi this weekend. And the goalie only had one save: his own life.

* A resort in Mexico has opened the first underwater bar. Shortly afterwards it became host to the world's slowest bar fight ever.

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 file full

More Miscellaneous Rambling Last week's spring blitz put me behind with blog post leads, so I broke this week's "MR" into two parts. * * * * * * * Thanks, incidentally, to TDE readers who send me interesting links. It's greatly appreciative, especially in the spring when little

You might be lethargic if: 10. Kneeling and standing during church cause you to break a sweat. 9. You break a sweat taking a shower. 8. You have nightmares about losing your TV remote. 7. You've tried to scam a handicap license plate. 6. You think Internet surfing