Miscellaneous

> "It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it." G.K. Chesterton. > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 9, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/553344955381743616]

According to a new report that just came out, the average college freshman reads at a seventh grade level. Or if you're an optimist every seventh grader now reads at a college freshman level.

According to sources, Pablo Picasso's granddaughter is selling off $290 million of Picasso's work. That's enough money to put a smile on anyone's forehead. Lindsay Lohan was recently diagnosed with a rare mosquito-transmitted disease called chikungunya. And the mosquito was diagnosed with

Chesterton Short(s) Michael Coren recounts a great anecdote from Chesterton's years on Fleet Street: "Fleet Street was his domain, and he was as much a part of it as the El Vino and Cheshire Cheese watering holes which he frequented. Kenneth Baker, now a cabinet minister,

> Study finds Kentucky's "dry" counties have more meth lab seizures per capita than counties where liquor is legal. http://t.co/73HJjPBecf > — Timothy Aeppel (@TimAeppel) January 5, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TimAeppel/status/552105003477762048] Link [http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/01/04/local-alcohol-prohibition-laws-may-lead-to-less-liquor-but-more-meth-economists-say/

Miscellaneous Rambling Things return to normal . . . or kinda normal. The year is getting off to a frenzied bang, with out-of-town hearings and appointments all week that will take me to five towns in three states over the next five days. Ugh. Although I've come to appreciate that busy-ness

I'd love to see this become the first crack in the arrogant NFL's hegemony: > Dallas Cowboys Tickets Going For Less Than Face Value For Wild Card Matchup Against Detroit Lions - http://t.co/KNgu5HWhvs > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 4, 2015 [https://twitter.

"Let us remain in adoration; and to Him, who, in order to save us, humbled Himself to such a degree of poverty as to receive our body, let us offer not only incense, gold and myrrh (the first as God, the second as king, and the third as one

Nassim Taleb came up with, then Tweeted, a set of New Year's resolutions [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/550273244289585152]. As with most of us his statemednts, they're enigmatic and meant to make you think. They've also spawned a lot of retweets and comments, especially

H.I.F: Interesting Mall brawls breaking out across America. ABC News segment [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/malls-high-alert-large-fights-break-country-27915285] . I can't tell whether they're trying to lay the blame on social media or on the trash demographic that's orchestrating them.