Miscellaneous

A new report just came out that some companies, especially tech companies, are not hiring enough female employees. But guys who run tech companies say they'd love to hire more women. Or talk to them. Or meet them. Or even see one up close.

Not much today. Just a few pics. First, this picture of my late father and my eldest son enjoying a drink on our cottage beach on the shore of Lake Huron 18 years ago. The attentive babysitter is Marie. And then this picture I took on Wednesday while searching for

The Canadians apparently have their own beer fridge at the Olympics:

I'm something of a literary anecdote junkie. Maybe it's because writers can be so stupid and clever at the same time. Here's a great one that I found in an Epstein essay: "Tolstoy [claimed] 'My diaries are me,'--but in his

H.I.F. I think most people would agree that men built this country, mostly through hard work and risk-taking, self-sacrifice and toughness. But as this article points out [http://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2014/02/12/manhood-in-america-bit-by-bit-macho-stereotypes-lose-ground/] , the landscape of

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

H.I.F. Quite a coincidence to see this the day after I posted about my unconventional investment approach: George Soros is betting on the stock market going down and is putting money into mining stocks [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-17/soros-put-hits-record-billionaires-downside-

Ira Gershwin and his wife and another couple were about to go out to dinner at a fashionable Manhattan restaurant. Gershwin offered to call for a table. He returned to say none was available. “Let me try,” said the other man. He returned to announce that they indeed had a

A Random Passage Kentucky, Randolph said, with fine aristocratic distaste, was the “Australia of Virginia.” Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. (Randolph: John Randolph of Roanoke, the subject to Russell Kirk's first book.)

I found those quotes in Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History. Good stuff: > Many did tell of whippings, sadistic overseers, loved ones being sold away, and of wishing to be free. But we must come to terms with the fact that a majority of ex-slaves who offered an