Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling I'm on vacation this week. Actually, it's a bizarro [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World] vacation: Whereas work piles normally grow during a vacation, on this bizarro vacation, I plan on work piles shrinking. I packed a bunch of big files and took

> St. John Paul II was a Marvel comic book character in the '80s http://t.co/28tdpxjyuz (HT @TitoEdwards [https://twitter.com/TitoEdwards]) > — Jason Barker (@AncientStream) October 28, 2014 [https://twitter.com/AncientStream/status/527073033383452672]

H.I.F. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H.L. Mencken. Juxtapose that with this blog post: If You Really

H.I.F. But a bit comical, too: "In an effort to help transgendered people feel more comfortable using public restrooms, Cleveland City Council is considering an ordinance that would require businesses to make their restrooms, showers and locker rooms available to both sexes. And barring one gender from

> Andy Warhol ”“ a Celibate Catholic? - Aleteia http://t.co/g9BdzCLeNb > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) November 8, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/531073749135921154]

> 10/27/2014: Dylan Thomas' Birthday (1914). “An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.” White Horse Scotch. > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 27, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/526532325006667779]

A North Carolina man says he used his “Never Ending Pasta Pass” from Olive Garden to eat at the restaurant 95 times in the past six weeks. Well, he didn't say that, but his tombstone does.

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, “We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.” This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

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

Health officials in countries affected by Ebola are encouraging people to stop shaking hands, and instead give an “Ebola handshake,” which is when you bump elbows with someone. That would be a great idea if they hadn't spent the past five years telling us to sneeze into our