Ben has been on a bit of a G.K. Chesterton binge of late, so this is for him, via The Writer’s Almanac:
It’s the birthday of the novelist and essayist G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, (books by this author) born in London, England (1874). He’s remembered today for his detective novels about the bumbling, crime-solving priest Father [...]
Boy, that three-day weekend came just in time for me. I didn’t crack the laptop for anything work related the entire time and it was refreshing. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t work; I mowed the lawn, moved a high spot in my side yard to a low spot in my back yard, put up [...]
Bill Clinton: ‘Coverup’ hiding Hillary Clinton’s chances
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The Art of Manliness had a post last week in praise of the masculine sanctuary known as the barber shop. It struck a chord with me because of my own experiences, especially at one barber shop in particular.
Growing up, barber shops were something I went to with about as much enthusiasm as going to [...]
Here’s something I wrote and posted a couple of years ago, but it’s an appropriate time to re-run it.
June 6th
I’ve felt like this before. The nausea,
simultaneously sweating and shivering,
knowing that something was about to happen
and it wouldn’t be good.
Then it was being crammed into the landing craft,
Pressing toward Omaha Beach,
held in [...]
New photographic evidence of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s chickens coming home to roost:
HT: KingDavid (now at his new blogging address).
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Uncle Ben has finished his gruesome semester, the Mall Diva has the WHOLE weekend off of work, and my brain could stand to dwell on more trivial matters for at least one night so you can expect the three of us at Keegan’s for the Thursday Night Pub Quiz. Rumor is that the patio is [...]
Well, the so-called “economic stimulus” checks have certainly stimulated some creative thinking. I can’t count the number of email and junk-mail offers that have tried to attract my attention lately, each mentioning the imminent tax rebate checks and, of course, suggesting that this particular service or product is the best way to do my patriotic [...]
Q: What do these three events have in common:
Golf on April 28.
Golf on May 13.
Softball on May 19.
A: At each event I wore three layers of clothing and gloves that had nothing to do with the sport at hand — and I still froze.
Also, this past weekend I went into Cub for few groceries. [...]
Buffy Holt writes of a childhood memory:
Iaeger, West Virginia. Nineteen seventy nine. The old bus terminal that use to sit somewhere along the river bank. Maybe next to Sears & Roebuck? Maybe not. Maybe Sears & Roebuck came after it was already gone? I can’t remember. But I do remember the terminal; the diner it [...]
