Miscellaneous

* In Baltimore, the Orioles and the Chicago White Sox played a game today in a completely empty stadium. It was the first major sporting event to be played in an empty stadium, unless you count every professional soccer game in America.

Consistent with my statement last Monday that I was going to start frequenting The American Spectator site more often, I did and immediately found a great article on McDonald's by Daniel Flynn [http://spectator.org/articles/62510/i%E2%80%99m-not-lovin%E2%80%99-it]. In short, Flynn isn&

No comment: "TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray was once erroneously honoured during a parade which intended to praise the actor James Earl Jones. Lauderdale, Florida accidentally created a plaque in January 2002 which read 'Thanks James Earl Ray for keeping the

* Scientists have discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex may have had a vegetarian cousin. Man, it must suck to have a vegetarian in the family when your arms are too short to cover your ears.

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

Miscellaneous Rambling Great Mencken article at The American Conservative [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/h-l-menckens-merry-days/]. Three brief excerpts: "When Mencken started at the Baltimore Herald in 1899, the newspaper had a spittoon at every desk but not enough typewriters to go around." "Everyone involved in making the

Nock Notions And anything that tears down society ought to be resisted by Catholics everywhere: "It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society

H.I.F.From the "Today I Learned" sub-reddit at Reddit: "TIL If you earn more than US$21,000 a year, you are part of the richest 4% of the planet." No wonder I walk with such a swagger.

BYCU This link has one of the best assortment of "info-graphics" (deplorable term) I've ever seen about drinking [http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/26xaST/OQ$bQuqT:1RS6rr!B/www.buzzfeed.com/jessicaprobus/wheat-beer-plus-lobster-roll-heck-yeah?bffb] . Want to identify the different types of wine glasses? See chart 1.