Miscellaneous

H.I.F. I'm feeling pretty good about my assessment of Pope Francis' Exhortation. Here's what I wrote earlier this month after Rush Limbaugh said the Exhortation was "Marxism": > I'm pretty sure Rush is way off base to call him

BYCU Sean Dailey took over my role as editor at Gilbert Magazine about ten years ago. I got to know him a bit during the transition and during a GKC conference. He's a good guy, passionate for the faith, for GKC, for fantasy football . . . and for drinking. The

H.I.F. "George Zimmerman, who reportedly is $2.5 million in debt, primarily because of legal fees, has turned to painting for catharsis and now financial gain. His first painting is being auctioned off on eBay and in just a few days the price went from 99 cents

A Random Passage Hence, the Kardashians and rap music? "The dominant language and culture in a society tend to reflect the values and ideas of those in power." Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism.

A Random Passage Passages from my reading that I would hope most TDE readers find at least mildly interesting One of my favorite Nock observations: “The idea that [literacy] is an absolute good is one of the oddest and most indefensible superstitions rampant in our superstition-ridden society. To prove this,

Kontent from the Kindle "For in America throughout the twentieth century, and including four substantial wars abroad, conservatives had been steadfastly the voices of non-inflationary military budgets, and of an emphasis on trade in the world instead of American nationalism. In the two World Wars, in Korea, and in

H.I.F. More Panem: "D.C. residents are enjoying a personal income boom. The District's total personal income in 2012 was $47.28 billion, or $74,733 for each of its 632,323 residents, according to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer's Economic

Comes to mind every time I meet someone named "Brad":

Last week, I blogged about Detroit's Prophet Jones from the 1950s. In the same decade, New Yorkers had their black flashy sensation: Sweet Daddy Grace. Also from Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History of the United States: > Grace rode in a custom-built Cadillac limousine, and he bought

H.I.F. Thomas Woods asks some hard questions and makes some awkward points about the Holy Father's pontificate to date. Sample: "We are told Pope Francis is bold, but his alleged boldness consists of doing and saying things that please the world. This is not how