Miscellaneous

Pope Francis is on the cover of the Rolling Stone this week. The MSM still loves him, while comparing BXVI to Freddy Krueger. Jim Davis breaks it down at Get Religion [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/getreligion/2014/02/francis-is-the-right-kind-of-pope-at-least-for-rolling-stone/] . * * * * * * * Marc Barnes makes some startling observations about the creationism v.

Miscellany Dare I hope it? The Accuweather 15-day forecast says this terrible cold will stop this coming Wednesday, then temperatures will climb steadily for the following ten days . . . with temps in the upper forties from February 18 through February 22. At that point, we'll be a week from

"There are 12 new events in this year's Winter Olympics, 12. The new events include women's ski jumping, luge-team relay, and finding a working toilet."

According to the LR blog [http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/buckleys-highfalutin-words/], this anecdote comes from a 1931 entry in Mencken's diary: > William Faulkner, the Southern author who has been visiting New York for six or eight weeks past, has gone home at last, leaving a powerful odor

From the Bottom Line Personal [http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/]: "Caffeine withdrawal is now a mental-health disorder," according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders." But the urge to engage in sodomy isn't. Fine state of affairs at the APA.

My favorite essayist (Jewish or otherwise) asks a good question. In a review essay of a T.S. Eliot biography, Joseph Epstein writes: > But might it be allowed that one can write or say anti-Semitic things without being an anti-Semite? Eliot is guilty of the former, but does not,

H.I.F. Drudge killed me with this morning's headline: "Let the Gaymes Begin." It's the link to this article [http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/rights-group-releases-video-of-lgbt-attacks-in-russia/?_php=true&_type=blogs&src=twr&_r=0] about discrimination against gays

Miscellaneous Rambling Professor Charles Rice used to comment during jurisprudence class that a person didn't need long hair and sandals to be a radical. A person just needed to be a good Catholic. I've long sympathized with that observation. It was brought to mind when I

A Random Passage “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That's something that should be on a Hallmark card, but it's true nonetheless.

Miscellaneous Rambling Four points for a 50-yard field goal? Bad idea and not necessary. The reward for a long field goal is built into the game: you get three points, even though your lame offense didn't advance the ball very far. * * * * * * * I think the NFL will nix it,