Miscellaneous

Lent Welcome to Lent 2014. The time to repent is at hand, and we all have plenty to repent for. Forty days ain't enough time for all the work we have to do, but I'm sure we'll all give it (yet another wholly-adequate) shot.

Despite the fact that the Ukraine has been all over the news for the past few weeks, a survey found that 64 percent of U.S. students still couldn't find Ukraine on a map. Said Vladimir Putin, “Soon nobody will.” Despite being on the other side of the

H.I.F. I've spent the last month looking at the long-term forecast on my iPhone apps. They're repeating the same pattern as last year: things look great in 10-15 days! And then as the days shrink, so does the optimism. The default weather app for

You Learn Something New Every Day, Episode 17,441: "Le Krewe d'Etat is a satirical New Orleans Mardi Gras krewe with their first organized inaugural parade in 1998." Link [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Krewe_d'Etat]. I looked that up after a TDE

"On Monday, Chipotle will begin selling tofu burritos in the New York area. So if you love burritos, and you love tofu . . . you probably don't exist." "On Thursday, the captain of the crashed cruise ship Costa Concordia went back to the wreck for the first

H.I.F. Father sues for age discrimination. Gets $80,000 settlement, which contains a confidentiality clause. Classy daughter posts to Facebook: “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver,” she wrote. “Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT." The court

I ran across this quote right after posting that Dalrymple piece: "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." George Bernard Shaw

Just last night, I was explaining to my son, Jack, the reasons for ignoring the media or, if you wish to stay informed, to read the blogosphere as a counter-balance to the MSM (the blogosphere isn't perfect and it's not an adequate remedy for the MSM&

Nerds Gone Wild I'm trying to get away from using Mozilla Firefox. For the past few months, it's simply been performing horribly: slow, repeated connection problems. I've started using Google Chrome [https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/], but it's one

Trust, surrender, and cheerful love. The three traits emphasized by Mother Teresa.