Miscellaneous

What the hackers do is they collect the naked photos and then they trade them like baseball cards and there's a lot of money. For example, you can get $10 million for a naked Honus Wagner.

H.I.F. Actually, disgusting: Report: NFL officials asked teams to consider signing Michael Sam to practice squad [http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/dallas-cowboys/headlines/20140904-report-nfl-officials-asked-teams-to-consider-signing-michael-sam-to-practice-squad.ece] . Let me be blunt: The dishonesty of the pro-gay movement is beyond contempt. It'll stop at nothing to promote its agenda.

Doctor: "I'm not 100% certain of the cause. It could be related to alcohol." Patient: "It's cool. I'll come back later when you're sober."

H.I.F. The must-read piece of the week [http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3200608/posts]. Priest slams LGBT St. Patrick's Day Parade decision; his blog then comes down. (And what's with Bishop Dolan? Is he a chameleon? Conservative under BXVI, and now ramping hard left?

BYCU Interesting piece about Michigan's booming craft beer industry and the prime industry off-shoot [http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140826/BIZ/308260027/Michigan-s-craft-beer-boom-has-suppliers-hopping] : hop-growing. Excerpt: The biggest area of expansion is in hop farming. Since 2007, the state has gone from zero acres of commercial hop farms to

Los Angeles is considering a new plan to boost the city's minimum wage to $13.25 an hour. It's getting huge support across the entire country – of Mexico.

H.I.F. "In poverty-stricken Zimbabwe, the import of used underwear was so common that the country had to officially ban it in December 2011." "[O]n December 21, 2013, 58-year-old Denver St. Clair was killed when a drunken argument with his stepson ended in a wedgie

"A man wrote to say that he accepted nothing but Solipsism, and added that he had often wondered it was not a more common philosophy. Now Solipsism simply means that a man believes in his own existence, but not in anybody or anything else. And it never struck this

Reports say that several of the world's leading kale farms are running out of seeds after the recent increase in demand for the vegetable. I guess they can't grow it as fast as we can throw it in the garbage. Meyers Next week they're

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