Miscellaneous

"Anecdotes of NEA grantee superciliousness are as numerous as grains of sand in the seashore. For our purposes, one will suffice: when George Plimpton paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of the single misspelled word 'lighght,' an Iowa congressional aid dared ask the dilettantish

"It is always in the nature of great wealth to be insanely tempted (though it should know from active experience how little wealth can give), to push on to more and more domination over the bodies of men–and it can do so best by attacking fixed social restraints.

Mencken was such an intellectual snob, I find him hard to read sometimes, but his broadsides scatter way too much truth to be ignored: > The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets

Miscellaneous Rambling I've probably listened to about 50 episodes of The Journey Home, with Marcus Grodi. EWTN puts them into podcast format. They're perfect listening for low-mental tasks like gardening. It dawned on me a little while ago that not a single convert to Catholicism has

A new study found that babies as young as nine months can tell the difference between friends and enemies. Which raises a lot of questions, like: What kind of babies have enemies?

BYCU "How your favorite drink speaks volumes about your personal politics: The chart that measures voters in terms of vodka, whiskey and wine." Link [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532467/How-favorite-drink-speaks-volumes-personal-politics.html] . Great article. Trouble is, "findings concluded that Democrats tend to go for clear liquors,

It was Kim Jong Un's best birthday ever. There was a basketball game and his wife got him the new "Torture Me Elmo."

In Hong Kong, the man considered to be the father of the Kung Fu movies has passed away. His last words came after his lips had already stopped moving.

H.I.F. I frequent the Lew Rockwell site because it consistently has interesting takes on various matters, whether it's current events, economics, diet, or pretty much anything else. Today, it has an interesting take on Dennis Rodman. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/robert-wenzel/go-dennis-go/]. Excerpt:

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