Miscellaneous

Tuesday Twitter Rich City, Poor City. Portolio dot com has a neat breakdown of the richest and poorest cities in America [http://www.portfolio.com/business-news/us-uncovered/2010/02/22/top-american-wealth-centers-clustered-in-california/] . In Newport Beach, CA, more than a quarter of its households make over $200,000. In Reading, PA, the

Noteworthy Freebie Highly recommended: A free online book against abortion: 101 Girls Guide.Com [http://www.101girlsguide.com/]. The author, Serena Gaefke, has gathered together a wide assortment of quotes and passages from pro-choice literature, thereby revealing their insidious agenda and mendacious methods. I've read a handful of

Twitter Even though Senator Brown seems content with Roe v. Wade [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown_%28politician%29#Abortion], he does have a soft spot for Catholic nuns: Senator Scott Brown, a protestant, raised money for an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns in Wrentham. Brown has a special

Twitter Tebow severely disappointed me ("disgusted me" might be more accurate) with his crying at the end of Florida's loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game, but his heart and head are in the right spot: He's going to appear in a pro-life

Gosh, Give Me a Break As people get older, they get more serious. That seems to be the general consensus. That was my opinion . . . until I got older. When I was younger, I would wring my hands over all sorts of things, but now I'm much more inclined

Val-de-ri Val-de-ra This article [http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/25/news/economy/Americans_on_the_move/index.htm?section=money_latest] says Americans are taming their wanderlust. I find that highly doubtful. It's a lamentable trait, but one that has marked American since at least Tocqueville'

Long Weekend Another weekend, another weekend spent. This one, in Frankenmuth, the annual Summer Music Festival. It's a nice-enough weekend, but I feel like the impecunious father who spends a lot of money on a flat-screen TV for his kids. Nice gesture, yes, and his kids are no

Calling Aesop Compelling piece from Time Magazine [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html]: > As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are

Kind Me One of the neatest online articles I've read all year: Good Times: What's the use in being kind? A host of benefits, it turns out. [http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07080901.aspx] I read two highly-interesting asides ("There's an entire blog

Tuesday Twitter Revenge of the Fallen Last week, my older children and their cousins and uncles went to a late showing of Transformers II. Even though I liked the first movie, I stayed behind because (i) they wouldn't get back until almost midnight, which is almost two hours