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Memorial Day Eudemon

Stay Out of the Museum Night in the Museum 2 finished first in the box office: "Ben Stiller beat Christian Bale in the North American weekend box office duel between their respective "Night at the Museum" and "Terminator" sequels, according to studio estimates issued on

The Return Eudemon

Whew, whatta trip last week. We had a great time and I'm thrilled that I finally got to see some of California, but I'm glad to be back. We left at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday and flew into San Francisco in the morning. We drove

Tuesday Miscellany

I watched Idiocracy with my wife and older children on Saturday. It's the funniest dark comedy I've ever seen. The premise: a young man wakes up 500 years in the future and finds that America has dumbed down beyond belief. All of society engages behaves like

Monday Moanin'

A guy, even a wimp, could win the UFC [http://www.ufc.com/] championship with this strategy: Passengers said the man left the plane's bathroom covered in his own waste on the Dec. 26 flight and attacked the flight attendant [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/travelgetaways/18398737/detail.html#

Tuesday Miscellany

My wife can corroborate this: Sales during last week's Black Friday, the traditional kickoff of the holiday shopping season, were better than many analysts expected. But the growth likely came at the expense of margins as stores cut prices aggressively [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081202/bs_

Wednesday Miscellany

I hope everyone enjoyed the lengthy St. Therese piece. I should've put it up last Wednesday, on her feast day, but simply didn't think of it until too late. That piece had been lounging in my computer archives for a couple of years. A handful of

Thursday Miscellany

Great way to make friends at the airport: metal plates contain messages that will appear when x-rayed [http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/09/metal_plates_send_message.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890] . I think I'd choose a message that is considerably more colorful than the one at

The Tuesday Eudemon

First day of school. I'll continue a piece of sadism my father started: Singing School Days [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Days_(1907_song)] at full pitch as I turn on the overhead lights. The kids, especially teenagers, hate it. It's great. School days, school

The Wednesday Eudemon

Medal score: USA 56, China 62 [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals]. Phelps 15, Great Britain 13. __________ I guess Thomas Sowell has become a popular columnist this year, given the phenomenon of Obama Mania. In fact, bogus Sowell material is circulating the Internet. Snopes snoops it out [http://www.

Hooker Tuesday

Zmirak posted at Taki yesterday [http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/there_is_no_u_in_winner/]. As always, highly entertaining. Perhaps the most interesting excerpt: > Blues legend John Lee Hooker, whom I tracked down in Mississippi and quizzed by phone about what inspired his early hit, “Boom, Boom,