Miscellaneous

Received in an Email 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. 2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . 3. She was

"5% of Twitter users generate 75% of the Tweets."

"The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else." Chesterton

"Back in 1927, Lenin offered some shockingly prescient predictions for the century ahead: Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence."

"A recent article in The Wall Street Journal tells the tale... "'Argentina's government has filed criminal charges against the managers of an economic consulting firm,' the paper reads, 'escalating its persecution of independent economists.' "Apparently a local firm, MyS Consultores, published

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/marshall-mccluhan-at-100-you-know-nothing-of-my-work/

Clearer visions from afar: Obama does not want to go down in history as the president who bankrupted America “so the only alternative is another unsavory deal – the 'kick the can down the road' solution, as American politicians like to call it. “The debt limit will be raised

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Bogotá, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Katmandu, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, New Delhi, Quito, and Tehran: Where 1 million people could die in thirty seconds. . . . more>> [http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_earthquakes.html] BYCU for CALW: Archeology shedding light

Bad Movie Well, just when I think Hollywood can't produce anything worse (than Scott Pilgrim), it comes out with Zookeeper. Holy moley, it was bad. I didn't want to go (one magazine said the movie will "appeal only to hard-core Kevin James fans"), but

“[P]atience must always lie at the center of leisure, for reality does not disclose its secrets to careless, hasty, or indifferent scrutiny.” David Baily Harned