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Monday Miscellany

Microwaving Books and Protests Worried about catching Corona from a library book? You're skating on the irrational, but regardless, don't put the book in the microwave. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tag will catch fire. The public library will then fine you. A library patron near

BYCU

Drinking and COVID and the Great Outdoors Welcome to the Height of Summer. July 4th Weekend. An event that, I think, cracks the Top 5 on the drinking calendar: 1. Thanksgiving Eve 2. New Years Eve 3. St. Patrick's Day 4. Memorial Day 5. Fourth of July 6.

From the Notebooks

Mesopotamia Modern day Iraq. The birthplace of civilization. This is where writing and history began. That's why it's significant. The Tigris and Euphrates fertilize the area, making it reasonably fruitful, especially where the Tigris and Euphrates come a lot closer together . . . Which is where the great

From the Notebooks

Babylon The capital of the Empire of Babylonia, which crushed Judah in 589 BC, thereby ending the Promised Kingdom. It's been hated ever since. Back before there was Nazi Germany, people who disagreed with you might juxtapose you to Babylon. Martin Luther's famous “The Whore of

Miscellany

Hungary How's Budapest this time of year? I tell ya, the Magyars got it goin' on. A COVID per-capita rate well below the European average [https://www.statista.com/statistics/1111779/coronavirus-death-rate-europe-by-country/] , an ongoing resistance to Muslim immigration, and BLM movements under firm control [https://www.breitbart.

Malcolm

Random Today I Learned Malcolm X spent his youth in Lansing, Michigan, and he attended Mason High School for a short while. Both Lansing and Mason are less than two hours from me. My high school lost to Mason in the first round of the high school playoffs about seven

Better Drinking Through Science

Historical Liquor This is perhaps the neatest drinking story of 2020: Distiller using molecular science to hack the chemical codes of aged spirits and recreate them [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mad-scientists-booze-recreating-spirits-going-back-era-paul-revere-180971630/] . They're bringing back bottles that, today, costs thousands of dollars, if you can even find them,

Principle of Subsidiarity

What COVID Ought to Teach Us I'm back from vacation and catching up on COVID matters. I was greeted with news that COVID cases are spiking rapidly in my county, and one of my clients has it and is "not doing well." The developments fueled my

Blog Returns Tomorrow

I just returned from a short vacation. Blogging resumes tomorrow, with a solid BYCU in the wings for Friday.

Monday Moanin'

Miscellany I'm not sure it's terribly compelling, but these days, I eagerly gulp down every ounce of sanity I find: "Muhammad Ali's only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement 'racist' and the