Miscellaneous

“Yum! Brands and other companies who own fast-food restaurants are heavily lobbying the administration to allow their franchisees to take food stamps instead of cash,” writes a reader looking at the issue from a different angle. “That should ensure we have a never-ending supply of obese diabetics with heart disease

I'm Walk(er)ing to New Orleans The Walker Percy Center's Inaugural Conference is October 14-16 [http://scrutinies.net/2011/09/come-moviegoing-with-me.html]. It's kind of late notice, but I'd really like to go. Unfortunately, it's in New Orleans, and

The mighty Lions! They're 3-0. I didn't think they looked good yesterday, so I'm not as excited about them now as I was 48 hours ago. But seven straight regular season wins, a come-from-behind win (against the Vikings), a blow-out win (against the Chiefs)

“Contradiction and contentiousness come from deceit, a companion of unbelief and haughtiness.” The Philokalia

Don't You Dare Call It a Ponzi! Governor Perry referred to Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" and the Left went ape. Somehow, they think it's nuts to refer to Social Security as a Ponzi arrangement, even though their own darling, Paul Krugman, has

The Gricester Dylan Grice is a brilliant man. Based on this picture, he's about 17-years-old, but he's also Société Générale's Cross Asset Research strategist whose learning branches far beyond investments and economics. Consider carefully his most recent piece (much of which

The Kavorka A Dutch woman who called a man 65,000 times in the past year - an average of 178 calls a day - is to face charges of stalking [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14913053]. Kinda reminds me of my high school years. My parents had to

Detroit Poetry I split a couple of bottles of wine with Uncle Verny last night. He lives in Texas, but he grew up in Detroit. In the early 1960s, he worked in a convenience store on Five Mile Road (for those unacquainted with Detroit, everything south of Eight Mile [http:

Freak Entrepreneur Joseph Epstein's elders told him that only a fool works for somebody else. I think that's a little strong (and Epstein himself worked for Northwestern University), but it always resonated with me. As a business lawyer, I have come to respect the saying even

Friends of the Poor Kinda interesting: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the wealthiest judge on the Supreme Court. Net worth: might be as high as $45.48 million or as low as $10.7 million. Number Two? Another liberal: Steven Breyer. The folks below $1 million? Conservatives Alito and Thomas, plus