Well, isn’t that pleasant: The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children’s clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. “Dad, these pajamas itch!” “Don’t worry son, it’s just formaldehyde. It’s the stuff we use to kill frogs. But in your [...]
My most-recent blog column at The Register is up, and I don’t think you need a password to access it. Excerpt: The army of half-read books in my study has prompted me to think a lot about the problem of information and knowledge. How do we gain knowledge? What information should we seek? How do [...]
I don’t know why he did it, but Jeffrey Smith at The New Roving Medievalist posted a picture tour of Europe yesterday. It’s great, one of the best assortment of pictures I’ve ever seen. It made me think: What other area of the world can boast such variety and history and beauty? I know some [...]
I’m looking for Catholic bloggers that aren’t afraid to display a side of themselves that might grate against traditional Catholic sensibilities: the type that write about their drinking exploits, use vulgar language, talk about pretty women, or otherwise display a bit of pre-conversion Augustinianism. Post them below or email me. Thanks.
Michael Rozeff at Lew Rockwell says the signs point to a Hillary presidency and it won’t be pretty. Be afraid, be very afraid. Excerpts: Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States. The price of her nomination contract on Intrade has jumped to the 60 area, meaning [...]
Seasickness is pretty brutal. I’d heard that many times, and Waugh’s references to it in Brideshead Revisited stand out for some reason, but I experienced it for the first time yesterday. One of my law partners leases 30-foot sail boats on Lake Michigan. For a set fee, he gets 11 days of sailing during the [...]
This article about the prison system got a lot of attention this week. Part of it is nauseating (“We’re hard on criminals because they’re black”), but the writer raises legitimate issues and provides interesting facts. Excerpt: [T]he United States—with five percent of the world’s population—houses 25 percent of the world’s inmates. Our incarceration rate (714 [...]
I believe it: A “drain hole” in the St. Clair River caused by dredging and other commercial projects is costing Lakes Huron and Michigan a combined 2.5 billion gallons of water each day, according to a Canadian study released Tuesday. The receded water lines are remarkable all along the Lake Huron coast near my parents’ [...]
Not much today. I went to Bourne Ultimatum yesterday. I’d give it a 7. The sure-eyed Greydanus raves about it, but I was a bit less impressed, though I thoroughly enjoyed it (note: trust Greydanus, not me). The current issue of The Atlantic Monthly has an article on 20 years of “quirk” that I found [...]
Why beer is better than coffee, Point 134: A teenage waitress overdosed on caffeine after drinking 14 shots of espresso. The link features a picture of the waitress and plenty of quotes from her. I’m guessing that she thinks this is her Warholian fifteen minutes. __________ Paternalism gone wild: Docherty, a construction foreman, was accidentally [...]
A sad day: Merv Griffin died. Quite frankly, I barely remember his talk show, though I remember seeing it growing up. My most vivid memory: Kramer buying the old Merv Griffin set. __________ The ham-handed security measures of American airlines continue: An Australian woman has reportedly sparked a security scare aboard a US flight after [...]
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