Miscellaneous

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,

Zmirak on Buchanan on WWII [http://www.takimag.com/site/article/patrick_buchanan_and_the_necessary_book/]. Good stuff. > It's clear that in writing Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War, Buchanan was courting controversy–and not of the surface sort, like the meaningless chatter aimed by the

Defining marriage however the heck we want. Dozens of gay couples were married Monday night after California became the second state to allow same-sex nuptials [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080617/D91BJFDG0.html]. In case you didn't know it, incidentally, this officially opens the flood gates: "Unlike

"What about the liability?" Those are the words of every disingenuous person who doesn't want to do something but doesn't want to say why. Instead of saying, "I don't want you using my property for a charity yard sale because it&

You can't hide your lying eyes: Uncontrollable Muscles in the Face Reveal Lying, New Research Shows [http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4748115&page=1]. Via [http://www.lewrockwell.com/]. Excerpts: > Those instances, less than a second long, are called micro-expressions, long believed to be

The rise of the comic book, the Great Comic-Book Scare, comic-book censorship, and remembering a far more innocent age [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/bc0502sk.html]. Neat short piece. Excerpts: > [Following the censorship, b]etween 1954 and 1956, the number of comic-book titles plunged from about 650 to 250.

Well, don't blame me, but my wife asks me for very few favors. When she does ask, I feel compelled to grant. Parents from Holy Angels Catholic School are trying to raise enough money to re-open the school next year. I think they have a snowball's

Everyone needs a hobby: A Romanian man has been fined for making 6,442 profane phone calls to an emergency number [http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-04-17-profane-phone-calls_N.htm?csp=34] . __________ Swim to the lip of Victoria Falls [http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/devilspool.asp]. Pretty amazing. Not

Hell season starts. Basketball season ended a month ago. I've been enjoying the free evenings and weekends. That stops today: baseball (two boys, two different leagues), soccer (two girls, two different leagues, one of them the ambitious travel squad), swim lessons (one boy and one girl, same session)