Miscellaneous

Mencken and the Morons H.L. Mencken and George Nathan (a lifelong playboy who converted to Catholicism on his deathbed) bought the failing Smart Set in late 1914 (and immediately put this slogan on the cover: "One Civilized Reader Is Worth a Thousand Boneheads"). By mid-1915, they

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

Kontent from the Kindle "More than half a century of existence has taught me that most of the wrong and folly which darken earth is due to those who cannot possess their souls in quiet; that most of the good which saves mankind from destruction comes of life that

Based on a quick review of Pope Francis' The Joy of the Gospel, it appears that Rush has a cause for concern. Consider, for instance, this passage: > In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market,

H.I.F. Rush Limbaugh was in love with Pope Francis last March. I guess the love affair is over: "According to Mr Limbaugh, the Holy Father's recent document, Evangelii Gaudium, is 'pure Marxism.'" Link [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/publiccatholic/2013/11/rush-

Nock Notions Is there such a thing as a beautiful thrashing? I wouldn't have thought so, but Nock does it repeatedly in Memoirs of a Superfluous Man. All sorts of things about American culture irritate him, but he criticizes them with superb prose, erudition, and a measure of

Whew, whirlwind Thanksgiving weekend: Black Wednesday drinking, followed by Thanksgiving hangover, then Thanksgiving travel to Detroit to visit with lots of in-laws that I see, at most, once a year, then Friday morning holiday parade in Grosse Pointe, then more in-laws, then Saturday morning basketball drills with boys

The Mouse Hunter: Video worth the sixty seconds it'll take to watch it [https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10151823097153841].

My gluten intolerance has pretty much killed my beer-drinking ability, so I've had to switch to vodka and gin (and will shortly foray into rum, in honor of GKC's The Flying Inn). It looks like I'm catching the new wave: > Thanks to