Miscellaneous

* Even the White House is weighing in on the deflate-gate scandal. Yesterday they encouraged Tom Brady to “be mindful of the way he serves as a role model.” And then President Obama stubbed out his cigarette and went golfing at noon on a weekday. * The White House encouraged Tom Brady

We took our annual Mother's Day trip to Warren Dunes State Park last Sunday. We saw a total of seven other people while we were there, even though it's one of the most popular tourist attractions in Michigan. That's what 63 degrees and rain

* An Australian woman has gone on 136 first dates in 17 months, but never on a second date. In other words, she looks nothing like her Tinder profile picture.

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

* Barbara Walters admitted to stealing an artifact from the White House. She said, "I was young, and I didn't think President Lincoln would mind."

A sentiment Albert Jay Nock would heartily second: "Imperial Russia had a far larger percentage of illiterates than the American Middle West yet she produced such men as Dostoyevski, Myerezhkovski, Vyereshtshagin, Tolstoy, Tshaykovski, Solovyov, Pushkin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Turgenyev, Skryabin, Mendeleyev, and Mussorgsky." Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

I'll let you know if this works: "A breathing trick can induce sleep in as little as 60 seconds, according to sleep expert Dr. Andrew Weil. "The technique, called the “4-7-8”³ method, was inspired by yoga and supposedly works by promoting a state of calm within

Miscellaneous Rambling Another cold snap coming today and tomorrow. I struggled with whether to put out my tomato plants last weekend, then finally settled on putting out nearly half of them. Temperature is supposed to drop to 41 tomorrow night. Under 40 is a danger zone for tomatoes, but they&

I like it when the lettuce boxes come into full bloom. Heirloom Black Seeded Simpson produces this overflowing fluorescent glow every spring. BTW: Don't let anyone tell you lettuce has no nutritional value. It's a myth. Iceberg lettuce has no nutritional value. The others have varying

David Mills has proposed his own GKC reading list for beginners [http://catholicexchange.com/reading-g-k-chesterton-a-guide-for-the-new-fan]. It's not bad. It prompted me to go to Amazon to see if I could get his Autobiography free (or for 99 cents) on Kindle. I couldn't find it, but I