Miscellaneous

Skeptical Saturday I'm enjoying my new-found skepticism about everything the media tells us. I notice things that previously escaped my attention. At 7:30 yesterday morning, the news reported that one of the Boston Marathon bombers had been killed in a shoot-out with police and a manhunt was

BYCU The garden is looking very good. It's been a frustrating year so far and a lot of work, but it's already meeting my family's spinach needs. It should, if the weather even halfway cooperates, shortly be meeting the family's lettuce and

Enormous technical difficulties at TDE. They've been occurring all month. We thought we had them straightened out yesterday, but then a new crop arose. We'll see where things go. For today, just this nifty chart I stumbled across last weekend [http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/27489527791/

St. Benedict Joseph Labre's Feast Day today [http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1356]. The poor man's St. Francis of Assisi.

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

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

"God wants from us human work that is well done. This means our working hard, with order, skill, competence and a striving for perfection; it means a completed job with no rough edges, no flaws or blemishes. It means serious work and an end-product that not only looks good,

North Korean officials reportedly are planning a cyberattack on the U.S. in an effort to bring our economy to a halt. Nice try, guys. You're five years too late. Leno Rihanna broke up with Chris Brown after she caught him cheating with a waitress. Rihanna said she

Wicked This story might be the most significant item of the year: Administration wants to allow only 28 cents on a dollar donated to charity to be deducted–even though the top tax rate for the wealthy donors who make most use of the deduction is 39.6% [http://www.

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