Miscellaneous

Brews You Can Use Incredibly busy week. I unwound last night with my favorite simple concoction (tonic and New Amsterdam gin) for two hours, giving me a mild hangover this morning, but it's alright. I needed to blow the dust off (a client's term for getting

An American Airlines employee berated a young mom for carrying a breast pump. Although it's still better than the time the same mom was on Spirit Airlines and she was asked to feed everyone in coach.

In Utah, a couple gardening in their yard found the skeleton of a 16,000-year-old horse. After hearing about it, Arby's asked, "Any meat on those bones?"

From the Gardening Journals One of the coolest things about the free market is a thing called "entrepreneurial drift." For years, I've encouraged my kids to start their own business, if for no other reason because it opens doors . . . or rather, jolts the entrepreneur to change

More Miscellaneous Rambling Count me in this group: Americans are more anxious than a year ago, survey finds [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-are-more-anxious-than-a-year-ago-survey-finds/] . A major setback at Maximum Greens will cripple early season production this year. I broke the news to Max last night, explaining that his main source

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, I reversed course with respect to lectures. I still like my idea of buying the used audio CD and ripping them into my iTunes, but there are three problems with it: (1) Amazon is not clear whether you are getting the audio CD or the book format

The most compelling picture from the Hawaii catastrophe I've seen:

I've read books or articles where Sowell or Walter Williams make this point, but for some reason, it's a bit more cogent to hear Sowell say it: > "Dependence was seen as the key to holding the slaves down. It's ironic that same

BYCU A loyal TDE reader sends along this perfect BYCU piece: Catholic Beer Club responds to millennials' thirst for community [https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2018/05/02/catholic-beer-club-responds-millennials-thirst-community] . It's America Magazine, but they managed to write it without any reference to the trans community, so I&