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Michigan International Speedway. Abbie (15) running today. -- Mobile post

Twitter 1. "The founding fathers of Communism, like Internet investors [in the late 1990s], believed that a new era had arrived." Bill Bonner. I've always distrusted new agers, whether they're holding crystals, wearing denim, or toting a laptop. They all say the same thing:

Ignorant of Theophilus is at Catholic Exchange this morning [http://catholicexchange.com/2009/10/31/123099/].

Vampire stories are the rage, it's Halloween, and I always got a small narcissistic kick out of this story. It ran in Gilbert Magazine about ten years ago . . . but the undead are timeless. Gothic Nihilism Jonathan had just finished watching The Conan O'Brien Show when the

Top Ten List Looking for scary beers? Here's a top ten list [http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/spirits/article844951.ece]. Moorhoueses' Pendle Witches Brew, Young's Old Nick, Rogue's Dead Guy, Fantôme's Black Ghost, Great Lakes' Nosferatu, Wychwood'

With the end of football (see post immediately below), I thought my life was about to shift to leisure mode: lots of time for reading, writing, and drinking. But no: parent-teacher conferences, out-of-town seminars, Halloween festivities. The . . . (um, er) excrement never stops. Plus I'm not feeling well. I

Final football game of the season tonight. Gorgeous evening, nice farmland background. On evenings like that, you're glad to be a rural dweller. -- Mobile post

Niall Paul Krugman's bane, Niall Ferguson, is pretty daggone pessimistic about the U.S. future. Ferguson is one of the most-intelligent, yet common sensical, thinkers on the scene today . . . and he's an outsider (from the UK) and historian, so he might be a bit more objective.

Greenspan Repenting? After inflating the monetary supply relentlessly and serving as the minion of DC and Wall Street masters, the former gold-standard proponent and Ayn Rand devotee Alan Greenspan [http://www.adabyron.net/taemag_com_greenspan.htm] has been making more sense lately. He was recently quoted as saying, “If

Five Twitters 1. Niche blog of the month goes to: Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog [http://www.brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/]. If you enjoy alliteration, you might call it a "Nietzsche niche for fans of the nephalistic nullifidian." Via [http://philosophybites.com/]. My digital friend Nick Milne once