Miscellaneous

Failbook Last Thursday, a family member had access to Facebook shares at $43 per share (IPO price: $38). I asked him if he could get me in. He looked into it and said he couldn't. I just shrugged, since I knew virtually nothing about the offering, whether the

Autobiographical Corner Well, the worse of the busy season is almost behind me: the little girls' soccer leagues are done (I did my final Hell stint Saturday morning, watching back-to-back games in scorching hot field for over two hours; I felt out-of-whack the rest of the day), Jack'

"You ask how to put away anger: as soon as you feel the slightest resentment, collect yourself gently and seriously, not hastily or impetuously." St. Francis de Sales

Fat Tax A new fat tax to induce thinness [http://www.theindychannel.com/health/31079697/detail.html]? It wouldn't surprise me, but all people need to do is get grains and sugar out of their diets, yet at the same time that they're talking about a

"[T]here has always been a conflict between power-seeking moral reformers and the 'lowbrow' culture of saloons, immigrant and black resistance to work, shopping, dance halls, rock-and-roll, and the ever-advancing sexual revolution." That's Thaddeus Russell, writing in his splendid A Renegade History of the

"So it is with the love of money, the love of power and the other maladies that affect the minds of men--you may be sure that it is when they abate and give every appearance of being cured that they are at their most dangerous." Seneca, Letter LVI.

Bullets Is California the new Greece? "California's budget deficit has exploded 73% in a mere four months. In January, it was $9.2 billion. Now Gov. Jerry Brown says it's $16 billion. Whoops, guess the 'recovery' isn't everything it's

"Humility makes our lives pleasing to God, while meekness makes us acceptable to people. St. Francis de Sales

A new survey found that the best time to post something on Facebook is on Wednesdays between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. – while the best time to post something on MySpace is on Wednesdays between 2004 and 2007. -- Mobile post