Miscellaneous

Bullets What makes it even worse: The portions are shrinking. Prostitute barters sex for McDonald's hamburgers [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/prostitution/sex-for-cheeseburgers-749801]. * * * * * * * That hooker couldn't have enticed these guys: Asexuals [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/life-without-sex-the-third-phase-of-the-asexuality-movement/254880/] . They're people with

Three Items Anybody know much about Jacques Ellul [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul]? I was embarrassed to tell a loyal TDE reader that I'd never heard of him. He wrote over 50 books and over a thousand articles. He thought of himself as a Christian

Pretty cool old wine ad I stumbled across yesterday. I took Marie to see "Jersey Boys" last night, so blogging is light. Great musical, btw. Making Atheists It's hard to believe in a benevolent creator when you hear stories like this [http://thecourier.com/Issues/2012/

Bullets "Adults use email." It seems like an odd thing to say, but I've been saying it to my teens. They use Facebook to communicate, with the result that they don't check their email, even when they're expecting emails from potential employers,

Stupid little hobby. The Hunger Games last night. No time for blogging. Just this great little pic I took of an assortment of signs at a northern Indiana Italian restaurant last Saturday: The movie, btw, is great. I didn't read the books, so rest assured: you'll

The record: We went to war with Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction. After we won and searched, we found no weapons of mass destruction. But leading up to the war in Iraq, Saddam acted like he had weapons of mass destruction, even though he knew it meant

I always feature beer pictures, but I'm drinking red wine almost exclusively, so I thought, "Why not a wine pic?" I had this one on my phone, so it even meshes nicely with my "stupid little hobby" theme. It's a photo I

Stupid little hobby: I was at Michigan's oldest college yesterday with my son, Jack, during AAU open gym basketball. I was on Kalamazoo College's campus for two hours, marveling at its quaintness and its lack of students, until someone told me, "It's Spring

Bullets Is the world slowing down? It seems like everything is moving slow. Amazon packages are taking twice as long to arrive. Charter Internet is moving at a crawl. I know I'm moving slower these days. Maybe I'm just setting a trend. * * * * * * * A major shelf in