Miscellaneous

H.I.F. Many of our Founding Fathers were smugglers. Smuggling is a response to an unjust regime. If a regime believes it has the power to deprive a mass of people of things they desire, or to tax them out of reach, it's a sign that the

So I'm sitting around with a group of guys yesterday, watching basketball and commenting on the horrible weather that's coming our way (they, being men, are bummed out because they can't golf; I, being queer, am bummed out because I can't garden)

The dude seems normal enough, but . . .

BYCU I need a drink. It's the first full day of Spring, and I woke up to snow accumulation. Sure, it'll burn off soon enough, but still. Another reason to drink: It's Friday and it's Round One of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

Seen at Front Porch Republic [http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2014/02/good-essayist-hard-find/]: "A Good Essayist is Hard to Find: Wiseblood Books is about to publish Dana Gioia's superb The Catholic Writer Today as the first in its series of 'Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary

"If thy head offend thee, cut it off; for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell . . .". GKC, Orthodoxy I coincidentally re-read that

A new poll found that two-thirds of Americans are following the situation in Ukraine, which is impressive. Usually, you can't find two-thirds of Americans who are following the situation in America.

“I like to say I'm more conservative than [Barry] Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.” Pete Seeger. As

A model is suing Playboy after something went wrong with a stunt where someone hit a golf ball off her butt. Even worse, it was a photo shoot for an article about feminism.

H.I.F. Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams pull their sponsorship of St. Patrick's Day Parades because organizers won't let LGBT groups carry pro-gay signs. Link [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/lgbt-groups-plan-protests-for-st-patricks-day-parade/] . So, if you&