A complete archive of all posts published to this blog since September 15, 2017.
2024-03-17: Sunday night sunset.
2024-03-16: Rainy Saturday. ⛈️
2024-03-12: JetBlue, Spirit Airlines Call Off $3.8 Billion Merger Deal - WSJ Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the companies’ decision to abandon the deal, instead of trying to appeal their trial loss, further showed the government was right to challenge the transaction. …
2024-03-11: Currently reading: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis 📚
2024-03-11: Frozen - Catholic Husband No one has a right to another person. This is a foundational principle that we wield to battle, in law and life, the evils of slavery, racism, sex trafficking, torture, and kidnapping. ➕
2024-03-10: Finished reading: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 📚
2024-03-09: Saturday at the Symphony. 🎼
2024-03-07: President Biden’s State of the Union Address 2024 – Analysis and Updates - WSJ Taxpayers at all income levels received tax cuts, on average, with the biggest benefits as a share of income going to people in the 95th to 99th percentiles, according to the Tax Policy Center. …
2024-03-04: Mainstream Media Warn If Trump Is Elected He Might Indict His Political Enemies, Imprison Detractors, And Rig Elections In His Favor - Babylon Bee “We have to bend or break every moral and ethical rule in existence to keep Trump from breaking the rules.”
2024-03-04: John Kerry Is Stepping Down as Climate Envoy at Age 80. He Isn’t Going Quietly. - WSJ Then Kerry plans to hit the road as a private citizen, dropping in on a major oil-industry conference in Houston to press energy executives to join the ranks of other business leaders throwing …
2024-03-04: Supreme Court Rules Donald Trump Can Stay on Colorado Primary Ballot - WSJ The court unanimously agreed that Trump should appear on the ballot Illegitimate court. The group behind the challenge, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said that Trump won on …
2024-03-04: Talent - Catholic Husband … these parables put on full display the genius of Jesus that can only be attributable to the omniscience of God Himself. In a backwater, dusty, hot town 2,000 years ago, Jesus crafted a parable that was readily understood by his illiterate …
2024-03-01: IRS puts 125,000 high-income individuals not filing tax returns on notice, to recoup millions owed - WTOP IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters on Thursday that notices are going out to 25,000 individuals with more than $1 million in income, and 100,000 notices to people …
2024-03-01: Prediction: FDIC seizes New York Community Bank at market close, reopens Monday under new ownership.
2024-02-29: A bit of an odd day.
2024-02-26: I will occasionally get behind on posts for Catholic Husband, but I always catch back up. Unfortunately, that means some posts don’t get the attention they deserve. Here are two recents that I enjoy that were published slightly behind schedule: ⍟ 6,570 (February 19, 2024) ⍟ …
2024-02-26: Pentagon Finds It Properly Handled Austin’s Hospitalization - WSJ The Pentagon found it did nothing wrong in deciding to not immediately inform President Biden or legislators of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s whereabouts when he was hospitalized earlier this year, finding in …
2024-02-26: More Important Things - Catholic Husband My children need to complete their school assignments, but they don’t have to do them between set hours or certain days. School is essential; so is being outside, imaginative play, and family exercise. ➕
2024-02-25: AT&T to Reimburse Customers Struck by Outage - WSJ A $5 credit to eligible accounts will appear within two billing cycles, the company said. Mindblowing generosity…talk about paying it forward!! The cost of reimbursement is “fully manageable while achieving the 2024 …
2024-02-25: Americans have racked up a trillion dollars in credit card debt. That’s actually OK - WTOP News The issue with those figures is that they don’t factor in that about 55% of borrowers repay their balances in full each month What’s 30% of $500B?
2024-02-25: Made my first PlaneDocs delivery today!
2024-02-23: Hunter Biden Shows Joe Is No Longer in Control of the Plot - WSJ Opinion With Jenga pieces flying all about, with further upsets yet to be named, an election of Nikki Haley vs. Ms. Harris isn’t out of the question—or the GOP’s Ms. Haley vs. any of the hale-and-heartier Democrats …
2024-02-23: Elon Musk and Donald Trump Cases Imperil the Rule of Law - WSJ Opinion In Delaware, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Court of Chancery ordered the unwinding of five years of Mr. Musk’s incentive-based compensation at Tesla, which had been approved by 80% of the company’s …
2024-02-23: Biden’s Student Loan Boast: The Supreme Court ‘Didn’t Stop Me’ - WSJ Opinion But worst of all is Mr. Biden’s blatant rejection of the law, even after the Supreme Court called him out. Is it any wonder that GOP voters don’t take Democratic alarms about losing democracy seriously? …
2024-02-23: Stay-At-Home Mom Lets Loose, Mixes Lights And Darks On Cold Wash Cycle - Babylon Bee As of publishing time, Becky reportedly was heard singing sassy jazz songs from the laundry room while she brazenly threw unmatched socks into her kids’ laundry bins while cackling like a …
2024-02-23: 70° and sunny.
2024-02-23: All of my appliances sing a slightly different song when they complete their cycles. Laundry day is both melodic and confusing. 🧺
2024-02-23: Early voting is a wonderful thing for parents! 🇺🇸
2024-02-23: Crystal Mountain Alison and I think of vacation in the same way. While some people prefer new adventures and exploring new cities, we like to go to the same places to do the same things. We’ve just returned from our third annual trip to Crystal Mountain ski resort in northern Michigan, and this …
2024-02-22: Can Loose Lips Sink an Alliance? - WSJ NATO calls itself the most successful military alliance in human history, and that isn’t hollow bragging or crass marketing. Never before have so many countries, representing almost one-eighth of the world’s population, pledged to protect …
2024-02-22: Oh the hours of entertainment that children can get from a single big box. 📦
2024-02-22: I hate that Apple is automatically using AI to generate transcripts for all podcasts on Apple Podcasts. We’re in the very early innings of AI, and the idea that I can’t opt-out from its use on my intellectual property is wrong.
2024-02-22: Episode 262: Ski Trip Back from vacation, we catch up with the three skiers. ⛷️
2024-02-22: I’ve been trying to use Brick when I’m downstairs and away from my computer. More refinements to be done to my blocked apps, but I like the workflow. Much better than messing around with ScreenTime settings.
2024-02-22: Refrigerator robots.
2024-02-22: Book Review: Dead Fall 📚 I finally did it. After nearly five years of reading, I finally made it through the full Scot Harvath series. This is, to my knowledge, only the second full series of books that I’ve read. The other, of course, being The Chronicles of Narnia. Although many of the Brad Thor …
2024-02-20: Currently reading: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer 📚
2024-02-19: 6,570 - Catholic Husband It’s easy to get bogged down in the daily repetition, but when I take the view that I have 6,570 days to build our relationship, and tomorrow it’ll be 6,569, perspective shifts my decisions. Grace becomes easier, new adventure becomes more alluring, …
2024-02-18: Dave Ramsey Advises Trump To Use Snowball Method, Pay Off Smallest Legal Judgment First - Babylon Bee At publishing time, Trump had reportedly hung up on Ramsey after Ramsey yelled, “SELL THE STUPID PLANE!”
2024-02-17: Nothing beats your own bed. 🛌
2024-02-15: Snowy day ⛷️
2024-02-15: Currently reading: He Leadeth Me by Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. 📚
2024-02-13: Snowfall. ❄️
2024-02-12: Contend - Catholic Husband If you find yourself in line for Confession this Lent, lamenting your usual roster of sins, remember the line that you’re in. You haven’t given up; you’re still in the fight. God doesn’t want us to surrender to our failures, and He doesn’t want us to …
2024-02-08: Finished reading: Dead Fall by Brad Thor 📚
2024-02-06: Tucker Carlson Says He Is Interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin - WSJ “Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine, or what his goals are now,” Carlson said in the video. “They’ve never heard his voice. That’s wrong. Americans have a right to know all they can …
2024-02-05: Book Review: Rising Tiger 📚 I’m almost caught up on the Scot Harvath series and continue to enjoy new geopolitical dynamics that match the times. In this book, the India-Pakistan-China conflict is explored through a riveting plot line. There are few better ways to end my work day than an evening reading …
2024-02-05: Start Now - Catholic Husband First thing in the morning, tomorrow will be waiting with its pristine beauty, like a fresh driven and completely untouched snow, the exact right jumping off point to live the life I want to live and be the man I would like to be. ➕
2024-02-04: Currently reading: Dead Fall by Brad Thor 📚
2024-02-04: Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time - USCCB Daily Readings Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35
2024-02-03: Finished reading: Rising Tiger by Brad Thor 📚
2024-02-02: Slowly, but surely, we’re pushing the boundaries of trying to escape reality. Humans have always sought these escape, but we’re taking it way further than any previous generation has ever attempted. This isn’t just seeking blissful escape, this is a rejection of …
2024-02-01: Biden Names Elmo New Press Secretary - Babylon Bee “Elmo is so happy to be here! Elmo loves talking about Iran! Hahaha!” said Elmo as he hosted his first press conference. “Elmo loves new friends! Peter, do you want to be Elmo’s friend??”
2024-01-31: Biden to Visit East Palestine, Ohio, One Year After Train Derailment - WSJ The trip would mark the first time Biden has visited the site since the accident devastated the small Ohio town Consoler-in-Chief
2024-01-30: Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack - WSJ Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1,200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust, according to the …
2024-01-29: Platitudes - Catholic Husband The books of the Bible in the Canon of Scripture were written in adverse conditions, persecutions, war, violence, abject poverty, and even scandal. But the hope that they convey, encourages us to rise above the current circumstance and see God’s …
2024-01-26: The Trump-MAGA Purge - WSJ Opinion “Nikki ‘Birdbrain’ Haley is very bad for the Republican Party and, indeed, our Country,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday on his social-media site. “Anybody that makes a ‘Contribution’ to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred …
2024-01-25: Trump Adviser Peter Navarro Gets Four-Month Sentence for Defying Jan. 6 Committee - WSJ “You were more than happy to talk to the press about what you did… but not go up to the Hill to talk to Congress,” the judge said. Hunter? The Justice Department had suggested a six-month …
2024-01-24: Book Review: Black Ice 📚 Another great book in the Scot Harvath series. We’re out of the doldrums and Scot is back on the initiative. It was fun to again explore Scandinavia and learn a little more about the region. The plot was excellent, too, with great complexity that weaved together to make for an …
2024-01-24: The Money-Market Bonanza Is Over. So Is Now the Time for Stocks? - WSJ The S&P and Dow both hit records Tuesday, making further gains from here difficult. Why did the editor allow this line to be published? The S&P 500 set more than 1,000 record highs between 1950 and …
2024-01-23: The Labor Union That Defeated Amazon Is Fighting for Survival - WSJ The union is “dealing with a lot of institutional failure—failure of the labor law and failure of American businesses to really accept unionizing without putting up a battle,” said Wilma Liebman, formerly chair …
2024-01-23: The GOP Wants Pure, Uncut Trumpism as Haley’s Path Forward Narrows - WSJ What the GOP’s most loyal voters want, it seems, is pure, uncut Trumpism—with all the baggage and ideological divergence from traditional conservatism that entails. I’m old enough to remember when Trump …
2024-01-23: Gracious Trump Runs Out To Welcome Prodigal DeSantis Back Home - Babylon Bee “This son of mine was dead, and boy, was he so dead, I mean really, really dead, believe me. But now, he is alive again; he was lost and is found. He was Meatball, but now he is Ron. He was …
2024-01-22: Daily Burn - Catholic Husband You will encounter stress and temptation every day. The only question is, will you have enough gas in the tank to fly right past it? ➕
2024-01-21: The 2024 Republican Choice - WSJ It also isn’t clear Mr. Trump could attract first-rate advisers. The lure of power is strong, but anyone who takes a job had better have a lawyer on retainer. No conservative who wants a career in the law is likely to accept a job in the White …
2024-01-19: Tim Scott to Endorse Trump for GOP Nomination, in Blow to Haley - WSJ The endorsement is another sign of the difficulty Haley faces in a party that appears to be coalescing behind the former president. Mistake.
2024-01-17: Currently reading: Rising Tiger by Brad Thor 📚
2024-01-17: Apple Changes Its App Store Policy. Critics Call the Moves ‘Outrageous.’ - WSJ Apple’s new fees have drawn sharp criticism from the app-developer community, with opponents arguing the 27% commission the company will now impose on in-app purchases made through alternative payment …
2024-01-17: Aide to Lloyd Austin asked ambulance to arrive quietly to defense secretary’s home, 911 call shows - WTOP News “Can I ask, like, can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens? Um, we’re trying to remain a little subtle,” the aide said, according to the recording. Is it …
2024-01-15: Chasm - Catholic Husband Our priests need the full grace and benefit of our Eucharist Lord to strengthen them to fulfill the high calling of their vocation in the midst of a broken, dark, and hostile world. So, too, do the laity. ➕
2024-01-14: Finished reading: Black Ice by Brad Thor 📚
2024-01-12: Glaring Questions Remain Over Defense Secretary Austin’s Transfer Of Authority - The War Zone “We’re not going to track the GPS coordinates on somebody’s mobile phone in the administration and we’re not going to plant a microchip in their neck like they’re a …
2024-01-11: Hertz Selling 20,000 EVs in the U.S., to Reinvest in Gas-Powered Vehicles - WSJ Hertz said Thursday that it would sell about 20,000 EVs in the U.S., and use some of the proceeds to purchase internal-combustion-engine vehicles. The company in a regulatory filing cited weaker …
2024-01-08: Biden Backs Defense Chief Austin, Won’t Take Resignation if Offered - WSJ “There [are] no plans, or anything other than for Secretary Austin to stay in the job and continuing the leadership that he’s been demonstrating,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told …
2024-01-08: A little fun at tea time. 🦩
2024-01-08: Biden Has a Second-Term Wish List. Congress Could Spoil His Plans. - WSJ “Donald Trump’s campaign,” Biden said on Friday, “is about him, not you.” Completely true. It’s a campaign solely built on hubris and rehashing the 2020 election by a confused old man who refuses to step …
2024-01-08: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Hospitalization Deepens Mystery of His Absence - WSJ He has by design kept a low profile in the Biden administration. He certainly has kept a low profile since the strategically brilliant and historical airlift that was the Afghanistan …
2024-01-08: Unraveled - Catholic Husband While deeply sad, the unraveling of this universal human experience represents a core sickness in society. It’s the acceptance of the idea that a child’s life, their existence, presents an obstacle to happiness or fulfillment. This is dangerous. ➕
2024-01-07: Daddy’s Home 2 🍿
2024-01-07: Late Sunday snack.
2024-01-07: Book Review: Near Dark 📚 Thor’s change of direction, which began in Backlash, continues in Near Dark. Scot Harvath continues to heal and recover from the recent trauma, as he’s hunted by a vindictive figure from long ago in the series. This was another fast read as I get closer to finishing the series …
2024-01-07: ‘You Know, These Fine Citizens May Really Have A Point And I’d Like To Learn More About Their Cause,’ Thinks Driver Blocked By Protesters For 3 Hours - Babylon Bee “This is truly a brilliant tactic,” he said. “I never would have considered …
2024-01-07: Claudine Gay Gives Tearful Resignation Speech Entitled ‘Gettysburg Address’ - Babylon Bee Sources say the crowd was moved to tears by the time the speech concluded. “I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter I might not have the support of the …
2024-01-02: Currently reading: Black Ice by Brad Thor 📚
2024-01-02: Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns After Plagiarism Allegations, Campus Antisemitism Backlash - WSJ Gay has requested four corrections on two academic papers and is updating her dissertation in three spots I guess you can’t have a president who plagiarizes tell your …
2024-01-01: Finished reading: Near Dark by Brad Thor 📚
2024-01-01: Trailhead - Catholic Husband Plans are great things, but life doesn’t move in a linear fashion. Demands on our time, focus, and attention ebb and flow. Major projects, illnesses, and even just a bad night’s sleep knock us little by little off course. Slowly, over time, we …
2023-12-31: A year of fits and starts, but I got it done.
2023-12-31: Year in Books: 2023 Here are the books I finished reading in 2023.
2023-12-29: Detroit Pistons Relegated To WNBA - Babylon Bee WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert welcomed the new addition to the league. “We’re thrilled to add such a storied basketball franchise,” she said. “Fostering disinterest in the fanbase and showcasing …
2023-12-29: Francis Collins Has Regrets, but Too Few - WSJ Dr. Collins continued: “So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of …
2023-12-28: I love the way the tops of the trees are stretching to grab the last few rays of sunlight.
2023-12-27: Apple Wins Temporary Reprieve as U.S. Court Pauses Watch Ban - WSJ Apple won a temporary reprieve for its $18 billion smartwatch business after a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday paused a federal agency’s import ban on most of its watch models. We must protect the world’s most …
2023-12-27: Book Review: Backlash 📚 For the first 17 books in the series, Brad Thor adopted a “ripped-from-the-headlines” approach to his annual installments in the Scot Harvath series. It was enjoyable, but also a bit expected. With Backlash, Thor flipped the script. The hero, who up until this point in the series …
2023-12-26: Currently reading: Near Dark by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-26: It looks like my end of year web design project for 2023 is adding a color nav bar to my website!
2023-12-26: Episode 261: Christmas Trains Benedict introduces a (mostly) new tradition.
2023-12-26: Finished reading: Backlash by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-26: Where Americans Invested Their Money in 2023, in Six Charts - WSJ Investors have piled into far-reaching corners of global markets, driving a rally spanning stocks, bonds, gold and even cryptocurrencies. Yields on risky corporate bonds have fallen to some of the lowest levels of …
2023-12-25: Currently reading: Backlash by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-25: Stillness - Catholic Husband The message is simple. Though our hearts may yearn to be known, respected, desired, honored, praised and consulted, the slave is not greater than his master. We are called to live simple, quiet lives, fulfilling the high duty of our vocation, loving …
2023-12-25: All is calm, all is bright. Merry Christmas!
2023-12-24: What my daughter does when I tell her to put away her shoes. 🥿
2023-12-24: Finished reading: Spymaster by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-24: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care 🎅🏻
2023-12-23: We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever? - WSJ The reasons are varied: People say they feel they can’t control the content they see. They have become more protective about sharing their lives online. They also say the fun of social media has fizzled. …
2023-12-21: First day of winter. ❄️
2023-12-21: Conservative Bishops Push Back Against Pope Francis on Same-Sex Blessings - WSJ Francis didn’t mention the policy on blessings, but called for vigilance “against rigid ideological positions that often, under the guise of good intentions, separate us from reality and prevent us …
2023-12-20: Book Review: Use of Force 📚 After reading my first Brad Thor book in 2019, I’ve almost completed my goal of reading the entire _Scot Harvath_ series. Like a great Bond movie, I still love how the storylines take me to different locales around the world. Use of Force centered on the Mediterranean with …
2023-12-20: Episode 260: Two Front Teeth Just in time for Christmas, Felicity has lost her two front teeth. 🦷
2023-12-20: Statement of USCCB on Vatican’s Document Addressing Pastoral Blessings - USCCB “The Declaration issued today by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) articulated a distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings, and pastoral blessings, which may be …
2023-12-19: I love the look of contrails at sunrise.
2023-12-18: Currently reading: Spymaster by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-18: Vatican Issues Guidelines for Same-Sex Blessings - WSJ The pope’s letter and Monday’s guidelines supersede a 2021 Vatican statement that prohibited blessings for gay couples on the grounds that God “cannot bless sin.” God is always changing His mind on what is sinful and what …
2023-12-18: Counterfeit Sacrament - Catholic Husband Today, in the midst of the smoke, fog, and confusion around marriage comes Francis, shrouded in the authority of his office, wearing the distinctive white robe of the papacy, to place a bomb right in the middle of the Sacrament of Holy …
2023-12-17: Finished reading: Use of Force by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-17: Decoration station. 🎄
2023-12-17: Episode 259: Decorating Cookies With 8 days until Christmas, it’s time to get our Christmas Cookies decorated and ready for shipping. 🎄
2023-12-16: There’s something magical about reading a contract in its entirety. Reading can save you a lot of money. 💵
2023-12-16: Best Christmas Gifts For Christians Of Each Denomination - Babylon Bee Catholics: A bumper sticker that says “Miss me yet?” with a picture of Pope Benedict.
2023-12-16: ‘It’s A Great Time To Buy A House,’ Says Realtor Who Gets Paid If You Buy A House - Babylon Bee “Not only is it a perfect starter home, it just suits you and your family’s needs perfectly! There’s great schools nearby and no crime. Also, this …
2023-12-15: A photo has been removed — can I still use it? - Unsplash Please keep in mind our photos are provided on an “as is” basis, so any liability for continued use of a removed photo remains with you. And that’s why you can’t trust Unsplash.
2023-12-15: Markets are Rallying. How to Make the Most of Them. - WSJ Stocks have erased almost all their losses since the beginning of 2022, when the Federal Reserve began its campaign of interest-rate increases. PSA
2023-12-15: He’s Wanted for Wirecard’s Missing $2 Billion. He’s Now Suspected of Being a Russian Spy. - WSJ While running Wirecard, Marsalek helped the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency, and the SVR, its main overseas spying organization, pay intelligence officers and informants …
2023-12-15: Book Review: Foreign Agent 📚 Another great Brad Thor read. I mentioned this in a previous review, but I really enjoyed getting to explore fictional dynamics across a broader spectrum of geopolitics. This was a relaxing read for the end of the year and I’m looking forward to rolling on to the next one. Would …
2023-12-15: Soft morning light.
2023-12-12: Currently reading: Use of Force by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-12: Episode 258: Lost Everyone has lost something.
2023-12-12: It must be the end of the year. I’m getting inspired to start big web projects and overhaul my file-based organization.
2023-12-11: Finished reading: Foreign Agent by Brad Thor 📚
2023-12-11: Some Greater Glory - Catholic Husband Glory in ancient times was often found in battle. Seeking it, men marched to foreign lands, though a large number died of communicable diseases before taking the field. They braved harsh weather, rough terrain, scant food, and the great …
2023-12-09: Penn President, Board Chair Resign After Furor Over Comments on Campus Antisemitism - WSJ Private colleges generally aren’t bound by First Amendment protections, but many have crafted codes of conduct that track constitutional guarantees for free speech—including the expression …
2023-12-07: Alaska Airlines Pilot Accused of Trying to Cut Engines Midflight Avoids Attempted Murder Charges - WSJ one count of endangering an aircraft in the first degree and 83 counts of recklessly endangering another person The attempted murder theory never matched the facts. This is a …
2023-12-07: It’s email marketing list unsubscribing season. 🎄
2023-12-05: Venezuela Ramps Up Threat to Annex Part of Guyana - WSJ The U.S. in October eased economic sanctions in exchange for democratic reforms, which Caracas has yet to make. And now, this.
2023-12-05: Fraud has made major purchases a total pain.
2023-12-04: Binance and the End of Crypto’s Dream to Escape From Government - WSJ What does crypto have to offer—beyond clunky, wasteful and overly complicated technical systems—if it abandons its aspirations to operate independent of government oversight? The probable answer is: not much. …
2023-12-04: Just War - Catholic Husband Although armed conflict should always be a last resort, it’s a lawful tool for the defense of a nation. There are circumstances when, for the defense of innocents and the survival of a nation, war must be prosecuted. When that point is reached, when …
2023-12-03: Swiss precision.
2023-12-01: Squirrel Wearing MAGA Hat Seen Scampering Away From Falling National Christmas Tree - Babylon Bee Former House Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger have traveled to D.C. to personally join in the hunt for the violent revolutionary
2023-11-29: Pope Francis Punishes Conservative U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, One of His Most Vocal Critics - WSJ Pope Francis is punishing one of his most vocal conservative critics in the Catholic hierarchy, U.S. Cardinal Raymond Burke, by taking away his stipend and rent-free apartment in …
2023-11-28: Book Review: The Billion Dollar Spy 📚 I’ve always loved espionage, and I was excited to pick up this well-reviewed book. Unfortunately, I found the content mostly dry for at least 85% of the book. I can’t put my finger on where it all went wrong, perhaps it was the rote blow-by-blow storytelling. Setting aside the …
2023-11-28: Nikki Haley Backed by Koch Network in Bid to Block Trump From 2024 GOP Nomination - WSJ the latest sign some big donors are moving her way in a long-shot bid to block former President Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination Long shot? Polls are one thing, pulling the lever …
2023-11-27: Buybuy Baby Is Back—and Opening Stores Again - WSJ The new owners of Buybuy Baby recently reopened 11 stores, betting that many expectant parents still prefer to shop for strollers, cribs and car seats in person. I hate this branding, but physical stores are so critical for …
2023-11-27: Aslan’s Roar - Catholic Husband Whenever the forces of evil are on the march, and victory in their grasp, Aslan always returns in great glory. With a single roar, he marks a return to reality as the force of his voice destroys all who oppose him. ➕
2023-11-26: Finished reading: The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman 📚
2023-11-25: Son is a pretty good packer.
2023-11-25: Wouldn’t be a drive home from vacation without 90% of smooth travel and the last 10% absolutely grinding, dark, and raining.
2023-11-25: New day dawning.
2023-11-22: Call me Captain.
2023-11-22: Washington Quietly Scrapped a Plan to Save Homeowners Thousands of Dollars - WSJ Fannie and Freddie generally require it on the loans they purchase from lenders. The policy, known as “lenders’ title insurance,” typically costs the borrower around 0.5% of their loan amount, so it …
2023-11-22: Sunrise at the lake.
2023-11-21: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Agrees to Step Down, Plead Guilty - WSJ Changpeng Zhao is scheduled to appear in Seattle federal court Tuesday afternoon and enter his plea, according to court records unsealed Tuesday. The two biggest names in “safe” crypto, convicted on federal …
2023-11-20: OpenAI Employees Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns After Sam Altman Was Fired as CEO - WSJ The future of OpenAI was in jeopardy Monday, as the vast majority of employees threatened to quit if the board that fired the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, didn’t resign itself and …
2023-11-20: Cave exploring.
2023-11-20: Moment of Conversion - Catholic Husband Those they may be fleeting, grabbing hold of these turning points is critical. We are large ships, and turning is never easy. Incremental progress is the tried and true way to success. ➕
2023-11-19: A man going on a journey called in his servants and entrusted his possessions to them. Matthew 25:14
2023-11-19: ‘We Cannot Be Associated With Elon Musk,’ Says Tim Cook While Shaking Hands With Brutal Chinese Dictator - Babylon Bee “I refuse to allow my morally pristine corporation to be associated with disreputable characters like Elon Musk,” said Cook while …
2023-11-18: My favorite kind of driver is the one who goes 10-under in the left lane, and then in a construction zone goes 15-over.
2023-11-17: Currently reading: Foreign Agent by Brad Thor 📚
2023-11-17: Seen on the fence.
2023-11-16: Episode 257: Redacted The contents of this episode are for authorized listeners only.
2023-11-16: When children get hold of the newspaper, every picture gets a mustache.
2023-11-16: 45 Things Trump Is Promising For His Second Term - Babylon Bee Make the southern border an epic American Ninja Warrior course so only the best ninja warriors get into the country We need more ninja warriors in this country.
2023-11-15: Post-Reconciliation views.
2023-11-15: Man’s Day Sure Would Brighten Up If An A-10 Warthog Would Fly Overhead Right About Now - Babylon Bee Participants in the study reported an average increase of 87% in happiness level whenever an A-10 made its presence known. One respondent commented, “I could be stuck …
2023-11-15: Misty morning.
2023-11-14: Episode 256: Origami Some of my students have enrolled in an elective.
2023-11-13: South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott Suspends Republican Presidential Campaign - WSJ Scott’s exit follows the departure of former Vice President Mike Pence who left the GOP field last month after also struggling to gain traction. A positive sign that the mistakes of the 2016 primary …
2023-11-13: Breaking Faith - Catholic Husband Throughout Church history, there are many periods when the Church falls into disrepair, and the responsibility to right the ship falls to those outside of the highest echelons of authority. As the ironies pile up, one of the most clear examples …
2023-11-12: Pope Francis Fires Bishop For Being Too Catholic - Babylon Bee “Bishop Strickland had the incredible audacity to actually teach the Catechism of the Catholic Church,” said Cardinal Robert McElroy. “Like, even the really unpopular parts about gender and …
2023-11-12: Cain Calls For Ceasefire After Killing Abel - Babylon Bee “It’s time to put a stop to the senseless violence,” said Cain as he checked Abel’s pulse to make sure he was dead. “Everyone can lay down their weapons now!”
2023-11-11: Episode 255: Benedict Press A new business opened up this summer and ChetCast has the exclusive!
2023-11-11: First Knife Mod After nearly four years as a collector, I finally completed my first knife mod. Benchmade Bugout with Fat Carbon Nebula scales This Bugout was the first knife in my collection, bought two weeks before COVID hit. I hated the FRN scales and so I almost never carried it. Now it’s …
2023-11-11: Pope Francis Fires Conservative U.S. Bishop - WSJ The cardinal’s statement on Saturday said that the Vatican investigation had been “an exhaustive inquiry into all aspects of the governance and leadership” Pope who lets Chinese Communist Party appoint its own bishops fires …
2023-11-06: Love the Path - Catholic Husband Every step of a marathon is not a joy, but crossing the finish line always is. ➕
2023-10-30: Foretaste - Catholic Husband Life is not easy, and in moments of stress, exhaustion, and temptation, failure is the path of least resistance when we lose sight of where we’re aiming. There’s a forever of calm and peace waiting for us if only we choose it. ➕
2023-10-23: A Job Well Done - Catholic Husband No matter what your role is in the division of labor, if you’ve done your best work and helped others, then that’s a job well done. ➕
2023-10-17: Fed to Propose Lowering Debit-Card Swipe Fees - WSJ A section within the 2010 Dodd-Frank law called the Durbin amendment gave the Fed the power to set caps for banks and other financial institutions with $10 billion or more in assets. This rule killed debit card rewards and …
2023-10-17: Palestinian Lives Matter, Except to Hamas - WSJ Opinion Blaming Israel for these civilian casualties amounts to denying the Jewish state its right to self-defense. It means that Hamas can launch attacks on Israel with the goal of slaughtering women and children, but Israel can’t …
2023-10-17: Nobody for Speaker of the House - WSJ Opinion What kind of an idiot mutineer takes over the man-of-war, tosses the captain overboard, and then spends two weeks pulling ropes at random, hoping like hell that the thing will somehow drift ashore before the supplies run out?
2023-10-16: Fresh Start - Catholic Husband We get so few fresh starts in life. When they do come alone, it’s best to seize them. ➕
2023-10-15: Automakers Have Big Hopes for EVs; Buyers Aren’t Cooperating - WSJ Still, many consumers are reluctant to make the switch, deterred by high sticker prices and the inconvenience of driving a vehicle that has a limited range and needs regular recharging. No one could’ve seen this …
2023-10-13: Steve Scalise Quits House Speaker Race - WSJ More than 150 lawmakers from both sides of the aisle managed to come together for a brief moment of unity in the evening at a vigil held on the Capitol steps for the victims of violence in the Middle East following the terrorist …
2023-10-09: Every Single Thing - Catholic Husband I’ve had to physically touch every single item that we own, and decide on a new place to store it. We grow numb to the magnitude of our property, to the amount of stuff that resides inside our four walls. We have everything we need, …
2023-10-03: Beautiful ending.
2023-10-02: Pope Francis Softens Vatican’s Ban on Blessing Gay Couples - WSJ The pope suggested that such blessings should remain an unofficial practice, writing that such exercises of “pastoral prudence in certain circumstances need not be transformed into a norm.” Counterfeit sacraments.
2023-10-02: Natural Conclusions - Catholic Husband Everything in my life is about to change, as we set off on a new adventure. As I look back and the years that we’ve been in our current town, I start to see the good in things again. Those ordinary moments that shaped our family, the …
2023-09-29: Episode 254: C90GT At the airport, from inside a plane.
2023-09-25: We still haven’t solved extended power outages.
2023-09-25: Bend, Don’t Break - Catholic Husband The only way to succeed each day is to inject plenty of flexibility. There may be an “ideal” time to get something done, but there are also plenty of other acceptable times, too. ➕
2023-09-18: Walmart pickup order missing three items. Chatbot doesn’t give you the option to report an item missing from order, so you have to call in. 10 more minutes of my life wasted to fix their mistake. Not great.
2023-09-18: Scriptural Confession - Catholic Husband Despite my failings, God always reminds me of the unfathomable depths of His mercy, greater than any sin I may commit. And if I doubt, I can read the words He spoke to the prophet Malachi thousands of years ago and half a world away, as …
2023-09-16: …put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing. Malachi 3:8
2023-09-12: At this point, the “Buy Apple or Die” marketing line is gauche.
2023-09-12: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Launches Formal Biden Impeachment Probe - WSJ Democrats have painted the probe as unfounded and an effort to get political payback. Huh.
2023-09-08: Georgia Special Grand Jury Recommended Charges Against Lindsey Graham, Others in Election Probe - WSJ recommended that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham be indicted, as well as former Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler Wreckless, unserious, dangerous stunt.
2023-09-06: How is it that websites still struggle with Safari?
2023-09-04: Potential Energy - Catholic Husband We can’t always see the change happening, especially within ourselves. The only thing that we can perceive is our daily actions, and the trajectory that they send us on. ➕
2023-09-03: Late summer storms.
2023-08-28: The Genius of Mass - Catholic Husband For one hour a week, we have to do none of that. We don’t have to worry about the report that’s due, the sink overflowing with dishes, or the cars that we haven’t waxed in nine months. It’s the one protected hour when we can finally rest. ➕
2023-08-25: Bicyclist Wants To Be Treated Like A Car But Also Be Able To Just Kinda Break The Rules When He Wants To - Babylon Bee The man then continued riding directly in the middle of the road at 15 miles per hour even though the speed limit was 65. Sources say Skuzz then ran three …
2023-08-21: Bottomless Tasks - Catholic Husband Life is impermanent, always ebbing and flowing. By definition, you’ll always be ahead of your work or behind it. Adding more hours to your schedule will get more done, but is unlikely to have an overall meaningful impact. ➕
2023-08-16: There’s nothing like the first breath of fall at the end of a hot summer. 🍁
2023-08-15: Book Review: My Father’s House 📚 I almost always read nonfiction books. I was in the Apple audiobooks section and this one was in a summer reads sale. The cover art drew me in, and when learned that the story was a WWII espionage thriller, I couldn’t resist. My Father’s House is a novel that, only after …
2023-08-14: Legal challenges to Biden’s student loan plans have borrowers anxious ahead of payment restart - The Hill This lawsuit is nothing but a desperate attempt from right wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt, even though these borrowers have earned …
2023-08-14: Disrupt - Catholic Husband To grow as a person, as a spouse, as a parent, and as a Catholic, we must continuously disrupt the lifestyle choices that hold us back. It’s a well-worn concept, one that St. Francis took to fanatical levels. It’s what Pope Francis meant when he …
2023-08-13: 75 Hard Yesterday, I completed the 75 Hard challenge. Since mid-winter, and through much of spring, I had a sense of being adrift. I was working a lot, walking infrequently, not praying much, and almost always 30–45 minutes late to bed. This unregulated, unmoored feeling was disquieting, …
2023-08-13: New coffee day ☕️
2023-08-12: ♠
2023-08-11: I bought the Relient K album Forget and Not Slow Down the day it came out in 2009, my senior year of college. Listening it today, I’m taken back to fall on campus in Ohio fourteen years ago. Incredible music.
2023-08-11: Merrick Garland Names David Weiss as Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Investigation - WSJ Garland said Weiss on Tuesday had told him that his investigation had “reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed.” At least …
2023-08-10: Joe Biden Officially Wishes Student Loans Away By Blowing On Dandelion - The Onion I realize that student debt cancellation has failed in the past, but if need be, I will make this same wish when I blow out the candles on my birthday cake this year.
2023-08-10: Letters
2023-08-10: Finished reading: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor 📚
2023-08-07: Inconvenience - Catholic Husband When we let inconvenience loom large in our minds, we miss an opportunity to sharpen ourselves. We let a tiny detail derail our whole day. We welcome defeat without the least bit of resistance. Inconveniences happen; we choose our response. ➕
2023-08-06: U.S. Warns of Trade Fight Over Canada’s Digital-Tax Plan - WSJ Freeland said that Canadian officials remain in talks with their Group of Seven counterparts about a compromise whereby Canadian interests “can be protected and recognized.” Which one is Canada, again?
2023-08-06: These Financial Advisors Say ‘No Thanks’ to Helping Rich Clients Get Richer - WSJ Advisers like Dole said making rich people richer as the sole goal of their work makes them uncomfortable. Please signal the next time you’re about to get out of your lane.
2023-08-04: Currently reading: My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor 📚
2023-08-03: Report: U.S. Will Now Need A Co-Signer To Purchase A Used Ford Taurus | Babylon Bee “Wow. I had no idea that spending $15 trillion dollars that we didn’t have was an issue,” said Senator Chuck Schumer.
2023-08-02: Book Review: Code of Conduct 📚 After a slow start to the year, I’m rolling through these books! Brad Thor’s series is almost a ripped-from-the-headlines style. I’m committed to reading the Scot Harvath Series from start to finish, but am glad to finally be catching up to current times. This book was published …
2023-08-01: Done.
2023-07-31: Limitless - Catholic Husband Let go of the false messages that you tell yourself. Be bold enough to break out of your element and experience the serendipity of newness. Reengage the spark of curiosity of your younger self. Climb higher summits, explore new horizons, dream of new …
2023-07-30: Finished reading: Code of Conduct by Brad Thor 📚
2023-07-30: Aide Pushes Cart Through Halls Of Congress Yelling ‘Bring Out Your Dead!’ - Babylon Bee “I’m getting better!” shouted Dianne Feinstein as her aides tossed her into the wheelbarrow. “I think I’ll go for a walk!”
2023-07-30: Are You At A Nursing Home Or The U.S. Senate Chamber? 9 Clues To Look For - Babylon Bee Nursing Home: Residents call out “Bingo!” to win money Senate: Residents call out “Aye!” to spend your money
2023-07-25: MAGA Republicans Convene In Underground Lair To Turn Planet’s Heat Dial Up Three More Notches - Babylon Bee The evil horde of MAGA supporters exploded into another round of malicious celebration as they all agreed to once again make the weather just slightly warmer than …
2023-07-25: Book Review: Atomic Habits 📚 With over 112k 5-star rating on Amazon, there’s clearly something here. James Clear crystalizes his understanding of the psychology of habits into a useful field manual. The books was thoughtful, logical, and well laid out. Even Clear would admit, there’s no great secret. Success …
2023-07-25: What happens when children are left unattended with the dog.
2023-07-24: Book Review: Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle 📚 Ben Macintyre is my favorite historian/author, and he did not disappoint in this one. The story of POWs often goes untold, except for a few anecdotes here and there. The entire book focuses on an ancient castle used in Germany for the “worst of the worst” Allied prisoners. Those …
2023-07-24: Fifty-Four - Catholic Husband If we want to build a strong habit of prayer, we have to commit and sustain our good works, especially on days when it’s not easy. ➕
2023-07-23: Currently reading: The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman 📚
2023-07-21: Finished reading: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre 📚
2023-07-19: Trump Indicted For Murder Of Tupac - Babylon Bee Authorities now believe Trump fired a Glock .40-caliber pistol from the backseat of a white Cadillac while also somehow driving it. Justice never rests.
2023-07-19: Trump Campaign Hoping To Lock Up GOP Nomination With Third Indictment - Babylon Bee “KEEP THESE FABRICATED INDICTMENTS COMING,” Trump said in a post to his Truth Social account. “THESE INDICTMENTS GIVE ME STRENGTH. I EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST WITH MY EGG …
2023-07-17: Restart - Catholic Husband The best way to succeed in any plan, program, or life change agenda is to start small, and start today. ➕
2023-07-16: FDA Acknowledges Harm of Oral Contraceptives While Its Own Panel of Advisors Push to Make Drug Available Without Prescription - USCCB Fertility is a gift, not a disease. Contraceptives exist to suppress the healthy functions of human reproduction. The mounting evidence of the …
2023-07-16: Paying Student Loans Again Could Feel Like a 5% Pay Cut - WSJ Yannelis and his co-authors found that from April 2020 to November 2022, borrowers whose payments were paused took on 3%, or $1,200, more in credit-card, mortgage and auto-loan debt than borrowers whose payments …
2023-07-14: EPA Launches Green Bank for Climate Funding in Low-Income Areas - WSJ This cash is seen as critical for funding key areas such as battery storage, electric-car charging and building upgrades that often struggle to attract private-sector funding, particularly in low-income areas. …
2023-07-13: Finished reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚
2023-07-13: Scholars Believe Explosive Growth Of The Early Church Was Due To Christians Being Allowed To Eat Bacon - Babylon Bee “Save yourselves from this crooked generation! Believe in Jesus, the Messiah! And also, I had a dream last week and we can totally eat bacon now!” …
2023-07-12: CPI Report Shows Inflation Eased to 3% in June - WSJ So-called core consumer prices, which excludes volatile food and energy categories, rose 4.8% I’ve loved this magic! Media and politicos each month review the difference between core and consumer price index inflation, then …
2023-07-12: They Had Great Credit Scores. Then They Retired - WSJ living on a fixed income and paying off old loans can lower a score, said Ethan Dornhelm, vice president of scores and analytics at FICO. Deleveraging is a significant credit risk in the funhouse mirror world of FICO logic. …
2023-07-10: Book Review: Soundtracks 📚 This book came out more than two years ago, and I was part of the pre-order. I just got around to reading it. Oops. I bought the hardcover and listened to the Audiobook. Although I love listening to Jon Acuff and his humor, the book design is so beautiful that I wish I’d had the …
2023-07-10: Trust - Catholic Husband We all have prayers to which the answer is a resounding, “No.” Disappointed as we may be, in time, the things that we asked for are forgotten. It’s prayers that were answered, and the gifts granted to us that are beyond our limited imaginations that …
2023-07-09: Embarrassing: Scientist Invents Lab-Grown Beef Only To Realize Cows Exist - Babylon Bee “I’m all set to announce to the world that we invented beef, when all of a sudden, it dawns on me - cows are beef. There are literally huge slabs of beef walking all over the …
2023-07-09: Hottest Days Ever? Don’t Believe It - WSJ Opinion It isn’t plausible to characterize Earth’s warming in a single average number, especially when we don’t really know what that number is today, much less from 125,000 years ago.
2023-07-09: Millions of People Booted From Medicaid After Pandemic - WSJ Enrollment in the health program for the low-income and disabled grew to 95 million during the pandemic, as states stopped checking to make sure people were eligible. Now states have started checking again, and more …
2023-07-09: Banks’ Newest Fed Headache: Nonstop Instant Payments - WSJ Under an existing system called ACH (automated clearinghouse), transactions typically take several days to settle. That can be frustrating for those waiting to receive their funds but often benefits banks that use the …
2023-07-08: Finished reading: Soundtracks by Jon Acuff 📚
2023-07-07: Consumers to Face New Limits on Private Short-Term Health Insurance - WSJ Under a proposed rule, the administration aims to limit short-term health plans to three months, or four months if consumers opt to extend them Isn’t it wonderful when government bureaucrats, who rail in …
2023-07-06: Everyone Wants Interest on Their Deposits. That’s Bad for Main Street Banks. - WSJ The Fed’s hikes and the failures of a trio of midsize banks are prompting once-loyal customers to pull their money out of checking accounts that pay no interest. Low interest checking accounts …
2023-07-04: Sparklers 🇺🇸
2023-07-04: Finished reading: Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt 📚
2023-07-03: Free - Catholic Husband Our freedoms allow us to work, associate, play, and pray as we so choose. It’s a freedom that few other humans, outside the ruling class, have experienced. ➕
2023-07-01: Currently reading: Soundtracks by Jon Acuff 📚
2023-07-01: What the Supreme Court’s Rejection of Student-Loan Forgiveness Means for You - WSJ Millions of Americans will have to prepare to repay the entire balance of their student debt now that the Supreme Court has overturned President Biden’s loan-forgiveness plan. Weird, that’s …
2023-07-01: Report Blames Top Biden Officials for Failures During Afghanistan Exit - WSJ U.S. Embassy staff in Kabul were so concerned in the months leading to the pullout that they sent a rare classified dissent cable warning that the Taliban’s advance was coming sooner than the …
2023-07-01: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan - WSJ As a presidential candidate in 2020, Biden said he would pursue legislation to erase $10,000 in student debt per borrower. Once in office, however, he confronted a gridlocked Congress where neither Democratic …
2023-06-30: Why does every website have auto play videos now? I just want to read.
2023-06-30: They got your vote twice, and all you got was a lousy student loan payment. 🤡🤡🤡
2023-06-29: Harvard To Get Around Affirmative Action Ban By Asking You Whether You Prefer BBQ, Ranch, Or Soy Sauce - Babylon Bee Admissions faculty at Harvard was devastated today upon hearing the news that they could no longer use racial discrimination to turn their school into a diverse …
2023-06-27: “But, look, 13 million jobs, again, when you think about how Americans feel better about their personal finances, that is important. When you think about wages are going up, when you think about the really good paying, millions of good-paying jobs, union jobs that his …
2023-06-27: The Espionage Act’s Ugly, Un-American History - WSJ Opinion The U.S. must prosecute spies and protect national secrets, but the Espionage Act isn’t necessary to do so. More than a dozen more-specific federal statutes criminalize spying, hacking and misuse of government records. …
2023-06-27: EV Startup Lordstown, Once an Ohio Town’s Savior, Files for Bankruptcy - WSJ Lordstown once said it would produce hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the former GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, but so far it has made only a handful of trucks. The company’s market capitalization has …
2023-06-26: A sense of trepidation overcomes me when I first open my inbox in the morning. 📥
2023-06-26: More | Catholic Husband The real problem is that we’re reaching for the wrong “more.” We seek a net increase in the quantity of our possessions and social stature. We should instead be investing our energy into a life of the good mores. ➕
2023-06-25: Hunter Biden’s ‘Fair’ Tax Share - WSJ Opinion The IRS team recommended that Hunter be prosecuted on felony charges of tax evasion for 2014 and false tax filings and a misdemeanor charge for 2015 of failure to pay tax. Yet because the U.S. Attorney waited so long to make a …
2023-06-25: Episode 253: The Director In a ChetCast exclusive, up-and-coming film director Benedict sits down for a rare interview to share his creative process, inspirations, and film recommendations.
2023-06-25: Toyota’s ‘Prone-to-Tears President’ Taps the Brakes on EVs - WSJ Toyoda’s perception of himself as facing off with disparaging elites mirrors how he talks today about the auto world’s transition to electric vehicles. In December, Toyoda said he was standing up for a “silent …
2023-06-23: Why You Shouldn’t Always Tell Your Bank How Much You Make - WSJ A higher credit limit is generally good for your credit score, since you will be using a smaller share of your available credit, he said. (That might not be ideal if you think a higher limit will tempt you to …
2023-06-22: Four hours of internet outage can either be a complete disaster or rocket fuel for productivity. 🚀
2023-06-22: U.S. Offers India Drones, Jet Engines to Lure It From Russia - WSJ “Ultimately, the question of where politics and the question of democratic institutions go in India is going to be determined within India by Indians,” Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told …
2023-06-21: Episode 252: Summer Solstice It’s the first day of summer! The kids share their goals for the season, and how they’ll spend their extra daylight.
2023-06-21: Tongues Of Fire Come To Rest On Biden And Fetterman As They Speak In Unknown Languages | Babylon Bee At publishing time, the nation’s foremost theologians were still hard at work searching for anyone with the spiritual gift of interpretation to translate what Biden and …
2023-06-21: Sixth Guy Kicking Himself For Leaving The Company Before Five Guys Hit It Big | Babylon Bee “I can’t believe I didn’t stick around,” said Mark Calloway, a close friend of the Murrell family that started the restaurant chain back in 1986.
2023-06-19: Fatherless | Catholic Husband Instead of minimizing their importance, or treating them like feckless children, we should celebrate fathers who have laid down their lives in humble service of their families. ➕
2023-06-17: Teamsters Vote to Authorize UPS Strike as Contract Talks Continue - WSJ The union has said that a two-tier system of drivers allows UPS to use lower-paid workers to deliver packages on weekends, curbing delivery costs. They must have a crack research team!
2023-06-17: The IRS Makes Another House Call - WSJ Opinion When an officer called Mr. Haus, Mr. Haus identified himself as an IRS agent but said Haus wasn’t his real name. He had used an alias. A federal law enforcement, supposedly conducting a legitimate knock-and-talk, lied about his …
2023-06-16: Currently reading: Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt 📚
2023-06-16: Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market | The Onion “We’re calling for millions of bozos to be infused into the crypto market to stave off collapse and assure investors their money is safe,” said Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire
2023-06-16: Episode 251: What’s Up? We’ve had a busy few months! I gathered the kids during a power outage to see what they’ve been up to.
2023-06-16: Biden Announces By 2025 All Wildfires Must Be Electric | Babylon Bee The President hailed the move as another major step forward in his administration’s ongoing commitment to spend as many federal dollars on completely normal, practical, common-sense climate initiatives as …
2023-06-14: King Solomon Lovingly Assures Wife She’s One In A Thousand | Babylon Bee King Solomon initially kept track of his wives by their most notable physical characteristics. “Okay, that one is flock-of-sheep-teeth,” said King Solomon. “That one is goats-of-Gilead …
2023-06-14: Sad Trump Says He Was Just A Few Document Boxes Away From Building Really Cool Fort | Babylon Bee “He’s a developer at heart,” said one member of the Trump team. “A border wall, an impressive resume of defeating impeachments and indictments, a fort made …
2023-06-12: Symbiosis | Catholic Husband Every family has their defined roles, each member taking on a share of the tasks required to keep the household running. But in times of stress or crisis, those roles can be up for grabs. This is an undersold and poorly remembered attribute of …
2023-06-09: A Destructive Trump Indictment - WSJ Opinion It was once unthinkable in America that the government’s awesome power of prosecution would be turned on a political opponent. That seal has now been broken. It didn’t need to be. However cavalier he was with classified files, Mr. …
2023-06-08: Trump Indicted For Keeping Classified Documents In Mar-A-Lago Instead Of Somewhere Secure Like The Trunk Of A Corvette | Babylon Bee Former President Donald Trump has officially been indicted by the federal government on seven counts of not storing highly classified documents in …
2023-06-08: White House Prepares for Possibility Supreme Court Could Kill Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - WSJ Biden administration officials are quietly planning for the possibility that the Supreme Court could strike down President Biden’s sweeping student loan forgiveness program An …
2023-06-08: Scholars Believe Noah Made Rookie Mistake Of Washing The Ark The Day Before It Started Raining | Babylon Bee “Finally done!” Witnesses heard Noah say. “Now I’ll clean her up real nice, and she’ll be ready to show off.”
2023-06-05: iOS 17 Can Automatically Clean Up Verification Codes That Clog Up Messages App - MacRumors Finally!
2023-06-05: Empty | Catholic Husband It’s not a mistake for a father to share a piece of his identity with his family. My sense of emptiness comes not out of a dark place, but out of a place of truth. In a world where children are seen as an accessory, I sense my children’s essential …
2023-06-04: Mission Impossible: 3 🍿
2023-06-03: Report: Sandbag That Tripped Biden On Stage Also Participated In Jan 6 Capitol Riot | Babylon Bee “We have also found a lengthy manifesto written by the sandbag,” the source said. “We will not be releasing the manifesto to the public due to the potential damage …
2023-06-01: Senate Votes to Block Biden’s Student-Debt Relief Plan - WSJ The Senate voted 52-46 Thursday to approve a Republican-led proposal to block President Biden’s hotly debated student-debt forgiveness plan, setting up an expected veto. Congress has spoken, clearly.
2023-05-30: Currently reading: The Legacy Journey by Dave Ramsey 📚
2023-05-29: Quiet - Catholic Husband Life with small children is never easy, but it’s always full of great meaning and beauty. I’ll enjoy the quiet time ahead, focusing on what needs to be done. But I’ll look forward to when my children return, and things are less quiet. ➕
2023-05-28: If your projector screens have a more prominent place in your parish than the Tabernacle, you’re doing it wrong.
2023-05-22: New Beginnings - Catholic Husband We’re starting to take things off the wall, preparing for painting and putting the house on the market. As I took that first hook out of the wall, I felt that moving feeling that filled my childhood. As the fresh paint dried, my nose …
2023-05-17: IRS Weighs Creating a Government-Run Tax-Prep Option - WSJ “It’s problematic that we instead provide it through these private corporations that prey on people and extract profits from taxpayers that are just fulfilling that civic duty.” No one has to use paid software, the …
2023-05-15: Garage Doors - Catholic Husband The pile continues to grow, but instead of trying to fix the problem, I’m just letting it be. It’s an exercise in patience, especially since it’ll be another two weeks before the door is fixed. For now, things are broken, and accepting the chaos …
2023-05-10: Some Buy Now Pay Later Users Face Rejection - WSJ In December, Sezzle launched a service it says helps lower transaction costs and avoid loan losses: Pay-in-Full. A customer gets retail perks, but the customer buys now and pays now. Fascinating! Tell me more!
2023-05-10: FDA Advisers Back Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill - WSJ The panel of FDA advisers voted 17 to 0 on Wednesday that there was enough evidence for the agency to approve the medication’s sale over-the-counter. Unanimous. Just like Tylenol, only the effects last forever. The …
2023-05-08: Checkpoints - Catholic Husband I want to have checkpoints sprinkled throughout our day, with short opportunities for prayer. In a way, it’s like water stations along a race route. I never want us to be too far from prayer. ➕
2023-05-03: ObamaCare, Zombie Banks and JPMorgan - WSJ Opinion Ended was a distinct Carter-Reagan-Clinton era in which, in select but significant arenas, government actually approached problems rationally. It tackled failing policies from a perspective of replacing bad incentives with good …
2023-05-02: Patients Lose Access to Free Medicines Amid Spat Between Drugmakers, Health Plans - WSJ Growing numbers of people with insurance must also pay a sum, called a deductible, at the start of each year before their health plan will start reimbursing for drugs. This is a direct …
2023-05-01: U.S. Covid Vaccine Mandates to End May 11 for Federal Workers, Others - WSJ The White House plans to end the Covid-19 vaccine requirements for federal workers, federal contractors and international air travelers on May 11, as the pandemic public health emergency ends. Good …
2023-05-01: Fruits of Labor - Catholic Husband St. Joseph was a tradesman who had a very hard life. He’d walk miles each way to job sites, work in the hot and dusty climate of the Middle Easy, and carefully craft raw wood into finished products using simple tools. He labored during the day, …
2023-04-29: Spinning Federal Mortgage Fees - WSJ Opinion The American Enterprise Institute looked at default rates of Fannie/Freddie owner-occupied 30-year fixed rate purchase loans acquired in 2006-2007 and found that among borrowers with credit scores between 720 and 769 and 20% down …
2023-04-28: Fauci Says He Never Locked Anything Down And Has Never Heard Of COVID - Babylon Bee “COVID? I’ve never even heard of such a thing! What is COVID? That sounds made up!”
2023-04-27: It’s truly incredible how a child in 1st grade can go from illiterate to a strong reader in 26 weeks. 📚
2023-04-27: McCarthy Gets a Debt-Ceiling Win - WSJ Opinion The plan also cancels the President’s student loan write-off and blocks a proposal to cap borrower loan payments at de minimis levels, which combined would save $460 billion from 2023 to 2033. A White House press release claims …
2023-04-24: The Idea - Catholic Husband This sea change was all possible because of Jesus’ simple philosophical idea that changed everything. It’s the idea that built the modern world. ➕
2023-04-22: Fidelity and State Street Push to Make 401(k)s More Like Pensions - WSJ The income-producing funds are coming to market a few years after Congress made it easier for employers to offer annuities in 401(k) plans. The law protects employers that follow certain procedures from …
2023-04-22: Biden Administration Considers Tougher Regulation of Money-Market, Hedge Funds - WSJ “The authority for emergency interventions is critical. But equally as important is a supervisory and regulatory regime that can help prevent financial disruptions from starting and spreading in …
2023-04-22: FAA Acting Chief Billy Nolen to Depart - WSJ Mr. Nolen’s planned departure comes as the agency faces challenges including a spate of serious near-collisions at U.S. airports and failing technology that earlier this year ground U.S. air traffic to a halt. But we can all at least …
2023-04-21: Biden’s Second-Term Mistake - WSJ Opinion But asking the country to elect a man who is 80 years old and whose second term would end when he is 86 is a risky act that borders on selfish. It’s impossible to know Mr. Biden’s real physical and mental state because the White House …
2023-04-17: Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 percent APY - Apple To build on their savings even further, users can deposit additional funds into their Savings account through a linked bank account, or from their Apple Cash balance. Why didn’t …
2023-04-17: It was fun to collect, but now it’s time to cash in
2023-04-17: Transform - Catholic Husband If God can work all of that good through a random anonymous fisherman, what good can he accomplish through my participation in his Divine Plan? ➕
2023-04-15: Peppa Pig’s Family Vacation Ruined By Jesus Healing Demoniac At Nearby Cemetery - Babylon Bee “Mommy Pig, why is Auntie Pig screaming and running into the sea?” asked Peppa Pig.
2023-04-12: High Energy Costs Threaten Climate Goals, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Warns - WSJ “People still have to be persuaded that the cost of clean is cheaper,” she said. “They have to see that in real terms.” Yes, show me that it’s cheap and abundant, and I don’t care how power …
2023-04-10: Ads make the internet ugly.
2023-04-10: Summits - Catholic Husband In every journey, and along every path, we find waypoints as we struggle to reach our ultimate destination. Then, when we’ve reached the summit and accomplished our mission, we look out to see God’s creation from a whole new vantage point, and the new …
2023-04-09: Currently reading: Code of Conduct by Brad Thor 📚
2023-04-09: Book Review: Act of War 📚 As I get deeper into the Brad Thor series, I’ve let go of how closely the stories mirror reality and just enjoy the ride. This one was pretty sinister, but well done. I’m looking forward to the next one. Would I recommend: YES ISBN: 978-1982148430
2023-04-09: Happy Easter!
2023-04-09: When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. (John 20:6-7) Annual reminder that Jesus’ first priority after rising from the dead …
2023-04-08: Credit Card Rewards Are Heading Toward a Crisis - WSJ “High-FICO cardholders on average earn money with the use of reward cards while low-FICO cardholders on average lose money,” they wrote. Overall, the study found that rewards cards drove a $15 billion annualized …
2023-04-03: Homeostasis - Catholic Husband Homeostasis is the resistance we experience to our good work. Why do we not do the things that we ought to do? Why do I hit snooze for 45 minutes extra sleep when I know a morning workout will set my day up for success? Why do I scroll YouTube when …
2023-04-01: Mike Lindell Draws Sword, Cuts Off Ear Of Officer Attempting To Arrest Trump - Babylon Bee “There, good as new!” Trump told Officer Sam Malchus. “Even better than new, if you can believe it. You probably have super sonic hearing now. All thanks to me, your …
2023-03-30: Pandora’s Donald Trump Prosecution - WSJ Opinion The danger for America is the precedent this prosecution sets. Mr. Bragg is busting a political norm that has stood for 230 years. Once a former President and current candidate is indicted, some local Republican prosecutor will …
2023-03-30: Elon Musk’s Move to Monetize Twitter’s Blue Check Mark Riles Celebrities - WSJ Twitter Inc.’s plan to remove legacy blue check marks for verified accounts heralds an end to a longtime social-media status symbol and is prompting complaints from some of the platform’s celebrity …
2023-03-29: The FDIC’s Sweetheart Bank Deal for SVB - WSJ Opinion The losers in this sweetheart deal will be other banks (and their customers) that will have to pick up the estimated $20 billion cost to replenish the deposit insurance fund. That’s about 15% of the entire fund. By …
2023-03-27: The Simple Path to Holiness - Catholic Husband In these mundane, rote, and mediocre tasks, I’m giving of myself. While I make the breakfast, the children laugh. When I help with homework, their minds unlock. When I’m doing the laundry, they’re free to run and play. ➕
2023-03-26: Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan Faces Fresh GOP Resistance - WSJ Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, called the GOP effort “callous and uncaring” and promised to oppose it. Says the man who just spent $6T that we don’t have?
2023-03-22: Democrats Vow To Arrest As Many Political Opponents As It Takes To Defeat Fascism - Babylon Bee “Fascism is a clear and present danger in this country,” began Senator Chuck Schumer, “and the only way to defeat it is with a corrupt, all-powerful police state …
2023-03-22: Few people know this, but “Walmart” is an acronym for “every cart is broken.” 🛒
2023-03-22: Donald Trump Grand Jury Is Called Off for Wednesday - WSJ In case you’ve ever wondered why grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. All this “will they?” “Won’t they?” is prejudicial to the defendant. Then, if there’s no indictment, the target gets tarred for no good …
2023-03-20: It’s kind of poetic that 15 years of financial regulatory decisions have only served to ignite the current crisis.
2023-03-20: Ten - Catholic Husband This body of work represents something intimate; it’s the place where my deepest thoughts come to the fore. This is a nice place for me to be and to write, and I hope that in another decade, I’ll share a similar reflection in a post titled, “Twenty.” ➕
2023-03-18: What Gets Lost When You Rescue Markets - WSJ The attempt to eradicate failure from the financial system, of course, is part of modern society’s broader push to make life itself riskless and idiot-proof, with indestructible baby strollers, child-resistant drug packaging, almost …
2023-03-14: Remarks by President Biden on Maintaining a Resilient Banking System and Protecting our Historic Economic Recovery - The White House Third, investors in the banks will not be protected. They knowingly took a risk and when the risk didn’t pay off, investors lose their money. …
2023-03-13: Calm - Catholic Husband I need to find calm in the chaos throughout the day. I need to process the cacophony of my household not as a noisy abyss, but as a symphony of joy. These are the sounds of life, of joy, and of youth. ➕
2023-03-12: SVB, Signature Bank Depositors to Get All Their Money as Fed Moves to Stem Crisis - WSJ The government’s bank-deposit insurance fund will cover all deposits at the two banks, rather than the standard $250,000. Federal regulators said any losses to the government’s fund would be …
2023-03-12: Investor Relieved He Pulled Money Out Of Crypto And Put It In The Bank For Safekeeping - Babylon Bee “Really dodged a bullet there,” said Mr. Sandlin. “Cryptocurrency was getting too risky. You never know when one of these currencies will just suddenly go …
2023-03-06: Ukraine Asks Merrick Garland To Leave As They Already Have Enough Corrupt Government Officials - Babylon Bee Sources say the Attorney General stammered in response, citing his lengthy rap sheet which included sending the FBI after parents who protest at school board meetings, …
2023-03-06: Start with Listening - Catholic Husband Prayer takes many forms, but perhaps it would be wise for us to slow down, take a moment, begin with Scripture, and then listen. ➕
2023-03-03: Biden’s ESG Veto Is Revealing - WSJ Opinion The rule would drive more savings into ESG funds that typically charge higher fees by letting retirement sponsors offer them as default options in 401(k) plans. Workers can opt out of default plans but usually don’t. Why isn’t Mr. …
2023-03-03: To Catch Up On Today’s News, Man Just Reads 2-Year-Old Posts On Conspiracy Blog - Babylon Bee “When I did some research, I realized all the conspiracy theorists were exactly two years ahead of the media in reporting the facts,” said Rorch while pulling up …
2023-03-02: Tweetbot and Twitterrific updated with option to opt-out of subscription refund – Six Colors it’s also kind of awkward, given that the money comes out of the pockets of those independent app developers like Tapbots and The Iconfactory, who got just as much of the short end of …
2023-03-02: Senate Votes 50-46 to Reverse ESG Rule for Retirement Funds - WSJ Advocates say that addressing climate change, improving corporate governance and encouraging diversity can boost profits. The data says ESG is another way for Wall Street to fleece the retail investor. ESG funds …
2023-03-01: Navy to rename USS Chancellorsville for former slave Robert Smalls - Task & Purpose Implementing the Naming Commission’s renaming plan is expected to cost the Defense Department roughly $62.5 million, according to the commission’s final report.
2023-02-28: Biden’s Regulatory Deluge - WSJ Opinion The Constitution grants the power to make laws to Congress, not agencies. But in calendar 2021, Mr. Crews notes, agencies issued 3,257 rules, including 105 last-minute Trump rules, while Congress passed 143 laws. Last year they added …
2023-02-28: The Gaslighting of East Palestine - WSJ Opinion Today’s fear is the price Americans are paying for the public-health authorities’ response to Covid. So many things experts claimed in the name of science—from the efficacy of masks to the shortcomings of natural immunity—turned …
2023-02-27: Preparation - Catholic Husband Prayer strengthens our relationship with God, breaks our hearts of stone, and opens our minds to the will of God. Fasting removes obstacles to holiness in our lives. It breaks the power of mindless rhythm and shakes us awake, calling us back to the …
2023-02-25: Biden Draws Distinction Between Classified Documents Found at His Homes and Trump’s - WSJ He was apparently referring to a widely circulated photo showing documents that federal agents had laid out; the image didn’t represent how Mr. Trump kept the papers. This is the first …
2023-02-22: Pentagon Spent At Least $1.5 Million on Missiles to Down Three High-Altitude Objects - WSJ That figure is only for the four AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles used to bring down the objects over Alaska, Canada’s Yukon territory and Lake Huron. It doesn’t include the cost for Navy, Coast …
2023-02-22: Donald Trump Visits Ohio Train-Derailment Site, in Early Salvo of 2024 Race - WSJ President Biden was briefed on conditions in East Palestine while he was rallying Europe to Ukraine’s aid in Warsaw, Poland, while former President Donald Trump visited the disaster site Wednesday …
2023-02-21: Crypto Still Draws Everyday Investors Hoping to Strike It Rich - WSJ Some individual investors’ enduring enthusiasm for crypto stems in part from a sense that traditional routes to wealth are blocked off, say investors and researchers who study their behavior. Those everyday …
2023-02-20: All on the Field - Catholic Husband The truth is, if I leave everything on the field, all things will be done well. It means I’ve woken up early and taken the time that I need to train my body and prepare myself for the day. It means my family has eaten, learned, prayed, and …
2023-02-19: Sixth Grader Swears His Science Homework Was Blown Up By A Sidewinder Missile - Babylon Bee Though Jared had never been a problem student, his teacher found his outlandish excuse difficult to believe. “I’ve been a schoolteacher for over 30 years,” said Carla …
2023-02-14: The Junk Economics of ‘Junk-Fee’ Politics - WSJ Opinion There’s no such thing as a free financial product. If regulators limit one source of revenue, businesses will find another to cover their costs. That is one lesson from the Dodd-Frank Act, which limited debit-card fees that …
2023-02-13: Ski Trip - Catholic Husband This trip, more than anything, emphasizes the importance of play. For the child’s brain, play is equivalent to work. It’s necessary and helps with overall growth and development. For adults, play is still important! It’s the best form of stress …
2023-02-12: Super Bowl Flyover Featuring All Female Pilots Running 20 Minutes Late - Babylon Bee “Believe me, we will step on the gas and show everyone some woman power just as soon as we can! Until then - wait, hold on now - did we all just show up in the same flight outfit??” …
2023-02-09: To Cover Rising Costs, Hunter Now Charging 15% For The Big Guy - Babylon Bee At publishing time, Hunter offered to sweeten the deal with the CCP by adding a pile of classified documents from the junk drawer.
2023-02-07: I have 50 unread emails. Not great.
2023-02-07: U.S. Air Defenses Failed to Spot Earlier Chinese Balloon Intrusions, General Says - WSJ “This gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed,” Gen. VanHerck added. …
2023-02-06: Obedient to Prayer - Catholic Husband If I were to sketch out a schedule for my ideal day, there would be several opportunities for prayer sprinkled throughout. No matter where I was in any given day, I’d only be a few hours away from a pause. The positive benefits of prayer are …
2023-02-05: China Assures Warships Heading For Taiwan Are Just Meteorological Warships - Babylon Bee “We have learned much about the weather in Hong Kong, and now it’s time to study Taiwan. The Chinese Communist Party appreciates America’s patience while we battle climate …
2023-02-03: Biden Says He’ll Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon As Soon As He’s Done Letting It Spy - Babylon Bee At publishing time, Eric Swalwell had been seen approaching the spy balloon and asking for its number.
2023-02-03: The Market Tanked, but Americans Kept Piling Money Into Their 401(k)s - WSJ About 90% of investors in the 401(k)-style retirement plans administered by Vanguard Group maintained or increased their savings rate in 2022. And trading activity fell to a two-decade low among …
2023-02-03: A Consumption Tax Is the Shock Our Broken System Needs - WSJ Opinion Others complain that the rate will be high. An effective 30% consumption tax, added to state sales taxes as high as 10%, could add up to a 40% or greater rate. But taxes overall must finance what the government …
2023-02-01: Biden Shows Off New Electric Car That Can Hold Over 17 Boxes Of Classified Documents - Babylon Bee “I can get all of these top-secret files to my beach house on a single charge! Not a joke!” said Biden, cruising up Pennsylvania Avenue. “Wait, weren’t …
2023-02-01: Biden Administration to Propose Rule to Lower Credit-Card Late Fees - WSJ “Many Americans believe these fees are just plain wrong,” CFPB director Rohit Chopra said Tuesday in a preview of the late-fee proposal. Except they haven’t voted with their wallets and switched cards or …
2023-01-30: Biden Proposes End to Moral Exemption for Birth-Control Coverage - WSJ The Biden administration proposed an end to an exemption allowing health plans to exclude coverage of no-cost birth control on moral grounds Isn’t having a Catholic president so wonderful? This proposal …
2023-01-30: Work from Home Dad - Catholic Husband It’s a daily challenge to balance my responsibilities at work and at home, but my children and I now share a special bond. I get to involve them in my work. They see what I do, got with me to visit customers, and get to share my love of …
2023-01-28: Local Church Turns To Robo-Greeters To Combat Volunteer Shortage - Babylon Bee At publishing time, attendance at the Cornerstone Calvary Community Congregation City Church had seen a bump in the demographic of boys age 5-13
2023-01-25: I’m owed a refund, but the IRS tried to charge me a $7 underpayment on estimated payments penalty. I had the data to support the annualized method, so the penalty went away. Still, there’s a penalty for underpaying the taxes that you don’t owe?
2023-01-25: Biden Claps In Amazement After FBI Agent Pulls Classified Document From Behind His Ear - The Onion At press time, sources confirmed the federal officer had responded to the president’s calls for an encore by pulling a pair of handcuffs from his sleeve.
2023-01-25: The State Wealth-Tax Alliance - WSJ Opinion Including federal levies, this means politicians would take half of every dollar in investment earnings. You take all the risk, the politicians get half the gain. The legislators say their plans will fund social spending, but they have …
2023-01-25: McCarthy Kicks Two Democrats Off House Intelligence Panel - WSJ “I think it’s just another body blow to the institution of Congress that he is behaving this way, but it shows just how weak he is as a speaker that he has to give in to the most extreme elements of this …
2023-01-23: White House Proudly Hangs ‘1 Day Without Classified Documents Discovered At President’s House’ Sign - Babylon Bee Sources in Washington confirmed there will be a ceremony and a few remarks by the President this evening to celebrate the occasion. The ceremony …
2023-01-23: I will never understand people who pump gas while their car is running.
2023-01-23: Banks Plan Payment Wallet to Compete With PayPal, Apple Pay - WSJ Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and four other banks are working on a new product that will allow shoppers to pay at merchants’ online checkout with a wallet that will be …
2023-01-23: Permission to Push - Catholic Husband The best way to get back to a manageable pace is to push due dates. There are some tasks that are true priorities, but most can be accomplished in the reasonable near future. Getting behind is normal, so rescheduling overdue tasks to be …
2023-01-22: Amazon to Wind Down Charity-Donation Program AmazonSmile - WSJ “After almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped,” Amazon said in an email to customers enrolled in the program. Perhaps if they hadn’t appointed Ebenezer Scrooge …
2023-01-21: The Power of “Pre-Day” Journaling - Day One Pre-day is the early morning before the rest of the world wakes up. It’s one of the quietest times of day, allowing your mind to breathe, think, process emotion, and prime your mental state to thrive in the coming hours.
2023-01-21: Man Pops Car Hood, Thus Exhausting His Knowledge Of How Cars Work - Babylon Bee A neighbor stopped by after seeing the open car hood and offered assistance by standing next to Snodgram and staring at the clicking engine. He then went the extra mile by suggesting they close the …
2023-01-21: First Bank Account Hard to find for kid, Managed and got it open. He’s up and running!
2023-01-21: Yum.
2023-01-21: Just opened my son’s first checking account and Roth IRA. He’s pretty excited!
2023-01-20: Heavy Maintenance I don’t look forward To car repairs with the kids. Tired, but was good.
2023-01-19: First Paycheck First day on the job, Son finished project, got paid. Very big smile!
2023-01-19: I quit Twitter five years ago because it was a joyless place. Not sure why it’s taken everyone else this long to figure that out.
2023-01-19: Alec Baldwin to Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting - WSJ Prosecutors plan to charge Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the movie “Rust” in New Mexico in 2021, the district attorney in …
2023-01-19: Ph.D. Students of the World, Unite - WSJ Opinion In the private economy, unions face limits on their demands lest they bankrupt their companies and end up unemployed. Government unions, by contrast, often sit on both sides of the bargaining table since politicians who negotiate …
2023-01-18: Griddle Smoke Bacon on griddle; Good dinner plan, but then smoked. Alarm sounds; eat out?
2023-01-17: Low Pressure Unusually long, Won’t build in until Thursday. Will be a long week.
2023-01-16: Marketing Associates Cute in their polos, They are part of Daddy’s team. And a great logo too!
2023-01-16: Medical Residents Unionize Over Pay, Working Conditions - WSJ “When there’s extra work, the burden falls on us,” Dr. Kaur said. Welcome to Medicine? The quality of a physician is directly related to the amount they were challenged in residency. Easier residency experiences …
2023-01-16: Work or Workout - Catholic Husband The truth is, I work better when I’ve exercised. Sleeping in gets me an extra 60 or 90 minutes of sleep, but those precious minutes don’t make nearly as big of an impact as waking up on time does. ➕
2023-01-15: Late Errands Long, quiet Sunday. Took nap, then ran some errands. Nice to take it slow.
2023-01-15: If you don’t have cold brew, or you don’t have heavy whipping cream, you’re not a coffee shop.
2023-01-15: Finished reading: Act of War by Brad Thor 📚
2023-01-14: Family Grocery Shopping Went inside, so strange; In a group, even stranger! Delicious dinner!
2023-01-14: Kamala Harris Assures Public No One Has Given Her Single Classified Document - The Onion “Please take comfort when I say I have no security clearance, on any level. My key fob doesn’t even work most days, and I have to text someone on my staff to come let me in. Yesterday, I …
2023-01-13: Done on Friday Accomplished rare feat, Work and school done by Friday. The weekend is ours!
2023-01-13: Crypto.com Cuts 20% of Staff, Citing Economic Hurdles and FTX Collapse - WSJ Crypto.com is cutting a fifth of its global workforce, in a second round of layoffs in six months Fortune doesn’t favor the brave.
2023-01-13: Christmas gift from Alison, a reusable tea bag.
2023-01-13: FAA Pilot-Alert System Breakdown Followed Years of Warnings - WSJ Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D., Calif.), who has advocated for overhauling the FAA’s Notam system, said modernizing its content and technology go hand in hand. “The pilots, the users, tend to not rely on it as much …
2023-01-12: Read Aloud Kid Son picked up a book, Sisters sat; he read aloud. A pretty cool thing.
2023-01-12: Is there anyplace that Biden didn’t stash classified docs? Bottom line: either we’re classifying way too many documents, or we’re not doing enough to hold people accountable for mishandling them. Probably a bit of both.
2023-01-11: Cleaned Up List Task list overflows, Afternoon to clean it up. Start back at zero.
2023-01-11: What is a NOTAM? - Federal Aviation Administration Changed the acronym NOTAM from Notice to Airmen to the more applicable term Notice to Air Missions, which is inclusive of all aviators and missions. Thank goodness the government is focused on the issues that really matter.
2023-01-10: No Energy Completely wiped out, Schoolwork left undone. Kids glad. Early bed tonight.
2023-01-10: Classified Documents Found at Biden’s Vice Presidential Center - WSJ Earlier this year in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Mr. Biden offered his reaction to the news that Mr. Trump had taken classified materials from the White House, characterizing Mr. Trump’s actions as …
2023-01-09: Win Some, Lose Some So many hours, Can do some work, but not all. Always tomorrow.
2023-01-09: Beautiful sky.
2023-01-09: Create Beauty - Catholic Husband But when we look up from our screens, when we behold the world around us as it truly is, there’s nothing but beauty. Colors, textures, weather, and creation changes from moment to moment. ➕
2023-01-08: Mass, Live Sunday morning, up. Back at Church; this is quite nice! See you all next week.
2023-01-07: Yard Games Got as Christmas gifts, All played outside together. Kids beat me; no shock.
2023-01-07: Lego Introduces First-Ever Affordable Lego Set - Babylon Bee Motivated by worldwide economic stagnation, engineers at Lego headquarters in Billund have developed the first-ever affordable LEGO® set: a single brick that retails for a meager $9.99.
2023-01-07: Remaining Avengers Team Up To Battle Snow Plow - Babylon Bee Using Hawkeye’s accident as a rallying cry, the Avengers vowed to defeat the evil Snow Plow and complete the job of clearing the driveway of Hawkeye’s ski retreat.
2023-01-07: AOC Asks Why We Need A House Speaker Since Everyone Already Has Headphones - Babylon Bee The room fell silent as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle turned to listen to Ocasio-Cortez’s wisdomly soliloquy as she described how the whole world surely receives piles of nice …
2023-01-06: Lots of Errands Brutal scheduling, Bunching is good, but come on! Can’t do all at once.
2023-01-06: Military to proceed with changing names of bases honoring Confederate generals - WTOP The bases are the largest items the Naming Commission recommends renaming, but it has also listed more than 1,000 items in the military’s inventory that should be renamed, removed, or modified. …
2023-01-06: Celsius Network Wins Ownership Rights to Customer Crypto Deposits - WSJ A bankruptcy judge ruled that digital coins deposited in Celsius Network LLC’s interest-bearing accounts belong to the firm, ruling against thousands of customers and deciding a key legal issue in …
2023-01-05: Teaching Math Third grade math lessons, I learned poorly the first time. Now I’m the class ace!
2023-01-05: Episode 250: Poetry & Stories We’re back to school in the new year. The kids stop by to share some of their recent school work.
2023-01-04: Retail Fraud Bought a new car seat. Got home, wrong one inside. Darn. To the store I go.
2023-01-04: DocuSign is a very nice tool.
2023-01-04: New for 2023, Applied Bioethics Magazine is free to read on the web. Enjoy! ⚕️
2023-01-03: Order Restored Messy for a week, Kids pitched in, house all cleaned up. Back to normal ops.
2023-01-03: This is a new post.
2023-01-03: Clowns Debate Who Will Be Elected Next King Of The Clowns - Babylon Bee At publishing time, voting was further delayed after a clown brawl broke out.
2023-01-02: Knocked-Out Woke up, stomach hurt! Stayed in bed all day; not good! Better by night time.
2023-01-02: The Bible in a Year - Catholic Husband Following the narrative of the story, and watching the puzzle pieces slowly come together, one day at a time, was the perfect way to study, explore, and discover the Bible. All it takes is showing up every day, and pressing play. ➕
2023-01-01: YouTube Mass All the same words, prayers, Lesser experience, tho. Need to get healthy!
2023-01-01: Currently reading: Catechism of the Catholic Church by Ascension Press 📚
2023-01-01: New year, day 1.
2022-12-31: Book Review: The Great Adventure Bible 📚 It took much longer than it should have, but I finally read God’s book. Using the _Bible in a Year_ podcast, I methodically worked my way through the entire Bible. The great thing about the reading plan that I chose is that it focused on a narrative, rather than attempting to …
2022-12-31: A Bit Much Just a single month, Three different viruses. Yuck. Hopefully the end!
2022-12-31: The Trump Tax Return Precedent - WSJ Opinion Mr. Trump appears to have hired legions of lawyers to exploit every possible loophole in the tax code. If Congress doesn’t like that, it can rewrite and simplify the code. But that would strip the Members of their power to do favors …
2022-12-31: Episode 249: Sewing Tips The house is finally clean, so I catch up with Felicity and Benedict who are working on a few of their favorite presents.
2022-12-31: Finished reading: Holy Bible: The Great Adventure Catholic Bible by Ascension Press 📚
2022-12-31: Made it to the finish.
2022-12-30: Work or Clean Messy house, and yet, Would like the weekend off. So, Work now, tidy then.
2022-12-30: Trump Thanks Dems For Releasing Best, Most Beautiful Tax Returns Ever - Babylon Bee “Nobody takes more withholdings than me! Everyone says so. Big, beautiful withholdings - no one else is smart enough. Lots of losers can’t figure out how to pay less taxes, but …
2022-12-29: Dumb Design Car seat can’t be cleaned; You had one job, you losers! This does not make sense.
2022-12-29: Just passed 7 years of journaling every day. 📓
2022-12-28: Sick Kids Been sick for a month, May I propose we just not? Ready for a break.
2022-12-27: Morning Sewing Christmas sewing kit, So why not sew this morning? She made rapid gains.
2022-12-26: Reading Under Tree Freezing cold outside, Son chooses books under tree. Looks like jacket helped.
2022-12-26: Silent Night - Catholic Husband A silent night, a holy night, in a cave in a rural town, an anonymous family witnessed the singular event that changed all of human history. In those ordinary moments, they thought not of the challenges ahead, but of the peace and quiet joy of the …
2022-12-26: Health insurance ❌ healthcare. Health insurance is a contract to cover the personal financial liability risk of receiving medical services. Healthcare is medical services provided by a licensed professional.
2022-12-25: Christmas dinner grilling.
2022-12-25: Sitting on the Stairs A quiet start, then, Kids come down the stairs. Party! A joyous morning.
2022-12-25: Quiet start to Christmas.
2022-12-24: Christmas Eve Clean-Up Santa hates a mess; That’s how I was raised. We cleaned, Now house is ready! 🎅🏻
2022-12-24: Silent night, holy night
2022-12-24: The House Pretends to Call in Sick - WSJ Opinion Members sign a letter, available on the House clerk’s website, that says they are “unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency,” and designate a colleague to cast their …
2022-12-23: Cascade of Errors Dinner: power out. Later, back on. But, oh no! Pipes are frozen!
2022-12-23: Power is out, fire is on.
2022-12-23: Christmas Tree Lot Guy So Ready For Annual 46-Week Vacation - The Onion Martin went on to stress the importance of mental health on the job, advising anyone in his line of work to make sure they take all of their 300-plus days off each year.
2022-12-23: 10 Awesome Christmas Gifts For Your Homeschooled Child - Babylon Bee A book of small words: To help them learn how to talk to all the illiterate kids their own age.
2022-12-23: Still haven’t used Stage Manager.
2022-12-22: Target Drive-Up Just needed one thing. Drove over, every spot full! Well, never mind then.
2022-12-21: Order Placed A new business line, All the dots almost complete. This is happening.
2022-12-20: Brother Reads Around town errands, Son reads aloud to sisters. They are all quiet!
2022-12-20: I’m glad that we’ll get to see the Trump tax returns, but this has been an awful episode. First, the facts are now in evidence that the Committee used spurious legal justifications to get them. They may have been entitled to them under law, but hiding behind the fig leaf of …
2022-12-20: House Committee Voted to Release Trump’s Tax Returns: Live Updates For those wondering, the pizza is from Matchbox, a chain with a location several blocks away in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Excellent taste! 🍕
2022-12-20: I love the strong feeling of restful conclusion that the final two weeks of the year bring.
2022-12-19: One Day Laundry A rare feat is done; Laundry run, folded, away, All in just one day!
2022-12-19: Equifax, a private company, scooped up reams of my private data, without my consent, and sold it to innumerable third-parties without compensating me. Through gross negligence, they were hacked, a breach that went undetected for weeks. As settlement for their reckless behavior …
2022-12-19: The Year It’s Been - Catholic Husband As the calendar turns over to another year, it’s the perfect reminder to check ourselves. Are we using these moments well, or do we need to yet again set down the things that are holding us back and embrace the daily rituals that take …
2022-12-19: Toyota Chief Says ‘Silent Majority’ Has Doubts About Pursuing Only EVs - WSJ “Because the right answer is still unclear, we shouldn’t limit ourselves to just one option,” Mr. Toyoda said. Over the past few years, Mr. Toyoda said, he has tried to convey this point to industry …
2022-12-18: Decorating Cookies Precautions taken; Doesn’t matter, a big mess! Beautiful mess, tho.
2022-12-18: Vatican Dismisses U.S. Antiabortion Activist From Priesthood - WSJ The statement didn’t specify the infractions for which Mr. Pavone was being disciplined but said that he had been “given ample opportunity to defend himself” and to “submit himself to the authority of his …
2022-12-18: Christmas cookie day. 🎄🎅🏻
2022-12-17: Clean House A daily struggle, Keeping the mess in check, away. Done; satisfying.
2022-12-17: Pre-dawn is my most productive time block. 👨🏻💻
2022-12-16: Gate Comes Down Small girl growing up, Master of the stairs up and down. Top gate came down. Nice!
2022-12-15: Rest is Best Three of four are sick. Calling it; take the day off. No day off for Dad.
2022-12-14: Hello, Neighbors Moved in years ago, Finally met my neighbors. They were pretty chill.
2022-12-13: DOJ Arrests Sam Bankman-Fried For Running Out Of Bribery Money - Babylon Bee Republicans criticized Democrats for blatantly seeking bribes by invading the personal space of Mr. Bankman-Fried for more bribe money, insisting that crypto coins were inside the computer. They then …
2022-12-13: Office Christmas Party My first one in years. Kids had a wonderful time; All made some new friends.
2022-12-12: Push Through Mondays are busy. Laundry, school, work must be done. Glad when it’s over.
2022-12-12: The Prodigal Son - Catholic Husband I think it reminds us of the relationship that God wants with us. He doesn’t just want us to pray, but to pray actively. He doesn’t want us to just go to Mass every week, but to go joyfully. He doesn’t want us to just pick up our cross, but to …
2022-12-11: Inside Internet A stroke of genius And some physics. We did it! Cable runs inside.
2022-12-11: Being a homeowner feels so great. 🏡
2022-12-10: Soft Morning Glow Hard to start early, Christmas tree is nice in dark, Metaphorically.
2022-12-09: Coffee Shop Work Kids and Dad sit down; They do school, I do my work. Coworking remotes.
2022-12-09: Biden Bails Out the Teamsters - WSJ Opinion Democrats are calling Republicans stingy for refusing to spend more on Covid, including treatments for the uninsured. But Democrats appropriated a mere $24 billion for vaccines and treatments in last year’s Covid bill and none in the …
2022-12-09: Three homeschool kids, a toddler, and a self-employed remote worker walk into a coffee shop… ☕️
2022-12-09: Morning prayer by the soft light of the tree. 🎄
2022-12-08: I Piano Little girl climbs up, Plays keys with joy and delight. Look! I piano!
2022-12-08: Russia Releases Brittney Griner From Penal Colony in Prisoner Swap Deal - WSJ Women’s basketball star Brittney Griner has been released by Russia from a penal colony, President Biden announced Thursday, in a negotiated prisoner release deal that exchanged her for Russian arms …
2022-12-07: Fast Errands City appointment. Ran errands while I was there. Faster without kids.
2022-12-07: Congressional Negotiators Start to Run Out of Time on Full-Year Spending Bill - WSJ The National Defense Authorization Act bill, unveiled late Tuesday, would also rescind the requirement that members of the military be vaccinated against Covid-19 Makes a bad decision, worse. …
2022-12-07: Back at my desk, and way behind. 🏃🏻
2022-12-06: Flu, Day 3 Almost over hill, “Good thing you got the shot!” Yeah, Not that much better.
2022-12-05: Flu, Day 2 Woke up much past two; In bed for the day again. Try again Tuesday?
2022-12-05: Time to Care - Catholic Husband Like the oxygen mask on the airplane, we need to take a moment to secure our mask before we help others. The same is true for our daily lives. We must eat, pray, exercise, and relax, or we’ll be hopeless when managing the daily stresses of caring …
2022-12-04: Flu, Day 1 Woke up; huh, not great. Maybe just take a nap? Yeah. Down and out for day.
2022-12-03: Train Rides Again Three years since last time, Kids didn’t forget a thing. Fun time had by all.
2022-12-03: Polar Express.
2022-12-02: Toy Closet Showdown The place was a mess. Kids couldn’t hang; Dad stepped in. Cautionary tale.
2022-12-02: Here’s your first look at the new B-21 Raider stealth bomber - Task & Purpose When the Air Force pulled the curtain on its new B-21 Raider stealth bomber on Friday, it became the first new bomber revealed since the B-2 Spirit was rolled out in 1988. The B-21 has …
2022-12-02: I think its incredible that no one on YouTube has ever paid interest on their credit cards.
2022-12-02: Book Review: Hidden Order 📚 I’ve been so slammed with work this year that my reading time has taken a serious hit. I wanted to get back into it and read alongside my kids, but the nonfiction books just seemed too boring to me. So I decided to go with this thriller instead. Thor is getting pretty dark and …
2022-12-02: Boeing Races to Win Congressional Reprieve for New 737 MAX Models - WSJ Without a deadline reprieve, Boeing said in a securities filing that it might cancel both planes, resulting in further financial hits. Airlines have said they prefer common cockpit types for their 737 …
2022-12-01: Side Spigot No spigot by cars, Long hose just to wash. Not good! Two years, but now fixed.
2022-12-01: End Vanguard’s ESG Meddling With Utilities - WSJ Opinion Asset managers like Vanguard then use their clients’ assets—not their own—to “accelerate the transition.” This is the real problem.
2022-12-01: My son, on his own, decided to make a contribution to our Christmas decor. 🎄
2022-12-01: All of the erasers on my children’s pencils are almost 100% used. I guess that makes them good students; willing to swing for the fences and try, then fixing their mistakes. ✏️
2022-12-01: Rising Tether Loans Add Risk to Stablecoin, Crypto World - WSJ Tether has also left it unclear whether any of its loans are to related parties, which can be a red flag for investors. Tether’s reports used to say that none of the loans were to affiliated entities. However, it …
2022-11-30: Walmart Shoppers I order, they shop. Pickup in seconds; they load. Such a load off; thanks!
2022-11-30: Tweetbot Maker Tapbots Working on ‘Ivory’ Mastodon App - MacRumors Ivory has a design that is quite similar to Tweetbot at the current time, offering access to a timeline, @ mentions, search, profile, and other options. These guys are really great at making apps, …
2022-11-30: Finished reading: Hidden Order by Brad Thor 📚
2022-11-29: One Day Laundry Unusually rare, Laundry done, away: one day. Don’t expect to last.
2022-11-29: Ten (2022)
2022-11-28: The Toddler & The Button “Press button, Daddy?” “Yay! Press button! I win! Woo!” Oh, small, simple joys.
2022-11-28: True Gratitude - Catholic Husband Amid this pause, we collectively take a breath and focus on gratitude. This year, my thoughts are turning more towards true gratitude. It’s simple, and right, that I should be thankful for the many helping hands in my life, or the relative peace …
2022-11-27: Tree Decorating Lights strung on the floor, Plugged in. Tempting to resist, Got a good pic, tho.
2022-11-27: Vatican Says China Broke Agreement on Bishops - WSJ Since 2018, neither Beijing nor the Vatican has ordained bishops without the consent of the other side. Only six bishops have been ordained in the same period, while some 40 dioceses in China still have no bishop. Job well …
2022-11-26: Attic Nice when it’s cool out, Though a big job left undone. Maybe in the spring?
2022-11-26: Shock of color.
2022-11-26: Vatican Tells Catholics How to Make ‘Faith-Consistent’ Investments - WSJ They call for “proactive positive investing” in industries such as renewable energy and microfinance. These guidelines are a paradox. Don’t invest in fossil fuels, which has lifted billions out of poverty …
2022-11-25: Remote Work Went to the office; No internet. Coffee shop: Math, business, & play!
2022-11-25: FAA: Pilots should be capable of flying aircraft manually when needed “Multiple crashes have shown a need for pilots, who might switch on autopilot soon after takeoff, to sharpen their abilities to fly without automation in case they have to take over during an …
2022-11-25: Backers of Farmworker Visa Overhaul Make Year-End Push for Immigrant Labor Deal - WSJ A bill providing a path to citizenship for about one million farmworkers—and creating a capped number of new year-round visas—passed the House in March 2021, with the support of 217 Democrats …
2022-11-25: Internet down at the office, so impromptu work/school session at the local coffee shop.
2022-11-25: Ukrainian Hospital Stymied Russians With Defiant Doctors and a Fake Covid Outbreak - WSJ By August, Russian soldiers were showing up at hospitals in droves, complaining of headaches or back pain in hopes they’d get sent home. “One guy said he had problems with his knees,” said …
2022-11-24: Relaxing Thanksgiving Work in the morning, Rain throughout the day. Cozy, Warm Thanksgiving meal.
2022-11-24: Currently reading: Hidden Order by Brad Thor 📚
2022-11-24: Thanksgiving table.
2022-11-24: Gentle music in the background, heavy rain in the vicinity, working away on my websites at my desk. This is true relaxation!
2022-11-24: Episode 248: Thanksgiving Jokes I stop by the kitchen to talk to the chefs and see how dinner is coming along.
2022-11-24: I’ve got that very deep feeling of rest and relaxation that comes with the end-of-year holidays. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
2022-11-23: U.S. Poised to Grant Chevron License to Pump Oil in Venezuela - WSJ The developments come just ahead of new Western sanctions on Russian oil that threaten to tighten global supplies and lift prices. The Biden administration’s move to ease sanctions on Venezuela has been seen as …
2022-11-23: I don’t know what happened to Safari in this year’s upgrade cycle, but I just switched my default browser to Brave.
2022-11-22: Biden Administration Extends Pause on Federal Student Loan Payments - WSJ Payments were set to resume Jan. 1, but they now will resume 60 days after litigation over the loan-forgiveness program is resolved or the program is implemented. This is the final, final final extension. …
2022-11-21: Enjoy Today - Catholic Husband Each day may not feel like a gift, but they all have little treasures buried deep inside. The way to find the treasure is to be present, and dig. It may be a funny quote from one of your kids, a completed project at work, or just one of your …
2022-11-19: Saturday fire.
2022-11-18: FTX Fraud Scandal: Here’s What You Should Know - Babylon Bee A quick Google search revealed that FTX stands for Futures Exchange, which is apt because its customers exchanged their future financial security for meaningless cryptocurrency.
2022-11-14: Torrents of Mercy - Catholic Husband There is no limiting principle to God’s mercy; that’s one reason it is so unfathomable. How can God forgive such grievous offenses? How can He continue to put up with our habitual sin, our failure to course correct, and our inability to live …
2022-11-10: Fetterman Realizes American Dream Of Living With Parents Til You’re 50 And Then Getting A Government Job - Babylon Bee Fetterman waved solemnly to his parents as he packed up his things before he remembered he doesn’t start his congressional term until next year. He …
2022-11-10: It Takes Too Long to Count Votes - WSJ Opinion Florida managed to count seven million votes within hours Tuesday, in part because it preprocesses incoming mail ballots and has an Election Day deadline. So far the U.S. has been Las Vegas lucky in avoiding a mail vote debacle, but …
2022-11-07: Moving in Together Doesn’t Match the Financial Benefits of Marriage, but Why? - WSJ “We’re already saving a lot of money and splitting the cost on most things,” she said. “I don’t understand how married couples are accumulating wealth in a way we’re not doing.” Because married …
2022-11-07: Donald Trump Rallies for … Donald Trump - WSJ Opinion But his focus on his own prospects, and criticizing his fellow Republicans even before a crucial midterm election, is one more reminder that Mr. Trump’s only abiding principle is what’s good for Donald Trump. Good …
2022-11-07: Constant Renewal - Catholic Husband Impermanence is the nature of life; things are always in motion and changing. Embracing a mindset of constant renewal inspires a sense of exhaustion, but also one of hope. ➕
2022-11-03: Suspect in Paul Pelosi Assault Lived in U.S. Illegally, Immigration Officials Say - WSJ The man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer is a Canadian citizen who has been living in the U.S. illegally since 2008, immigration officials said …
2022-11-03: Doctors Should Prescribe Opioids for People in Pain, CDC Says - WSJ Federal officials said inflexible rules around the prescription of opioids have harmed some patients, urging doctors to exercise compassion in alleviating pain. After a decade of intrusive criminal prosecution …
2022-11-03: Election Deniers The President got on to Election Deniers last night. Good on him, he’s 100% right. Election deniers are just thirsty for power and a threat to our democracy, falsely perpetuating the “Big Lie.” He said, in part, You know, American democracy is under attack …
2022-11-02: 15 Job Qualifications To Work For The Fed - Babylon Bee Must be able to call a hundredth of a percent “one basis point” to sound smarter
2022-11-02: After Ignoring Attacks On Churches & Pro-Lifers, Media Decides Political Violence Worth Covering Again - Babylon Bee “To anyone who doesn’t speak out against this politically-motivated attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, I will say only this: …
2022-10-31: Overrun - Catholic Husband The feeling of being overrun with sin is a tool of the devil. As CS Lewis masterfully illustrated in The Screwtape Letters, if we can be simply worn down to the point of giving up, then darkness wins. While we may feel overrun, we can never be made to …
2022-10-30: Michigan’s Education Failure - WSJ Opinion Ms. Whitmer says children were out of classrooms only three months, but she may be suffering from her own math deficit. Many of the districts that stayed closed the longest, including Ann Arbor, Lansing, Kalamazoo and Detroit, have …
2022-10-24: Will a Heat Pump Save Money on Your Energy Bill This Winter? - WSJ Heat pumps are a potential solution. Heat pumps are a great choice for people who love tepid air and frigid homes! It’s like fighting a forest fire with a hair mister.
2022-10-24: The Emperor Has No Clothes - Catholic Husband The truth is, people respect those who admit their faults and make corrections. Silently, we all wish that we had the courage to do the same. Events can transpire outside our control, but if we refuse to pick up the mantle and get to …
2022-10-21: President Rumpelstiltskin - WSJ Opinion Mr. Biden also neglected to give any credit to the hard-pressed American taxpayers who kicked in an additional $850 billion in revenue in fiscal 2022. Individual income-tax payments rose 29%, or nearly $600 billion. And that was all …
2022-10-21: Dad Has Family Arrive At Airport Before It’s Even Built - Babylon Bee Pro Dad and savvy world traveler Chip Dunnings is taking his family on vacation, and to avoid missing the flight, has made sure the family shows up packed and ready to go before the airport is even …
2022-10-19: Biden’s Top 2023 Priority: Abortion - WSJ Opinion Not lowering the price of gas or home heating (see nearby), not rebuilding U.S. defenses, and not easing his regulatory onslaught amid what economists now say is a likely recession in 2023. No, job one in year three of the Biden …
2022-10-17: Jill Biden To Dress Up As Real Doctor For Halloween - Babylon Bee sources also confirmed that President Biden will be dressing up as a President with an approval rating above 40%.
2022-10-17: Share Your Best Work - Catholic Husband The truth of the matter is that you are your worst critic; it’s a double-edged sword. On the one hand, your critiques push you to work when you feel uninspired, and to chisel down your ideas, leaving only your very best. On the other, it …
2022-10-13: Mortgage Rates Hit 6.92%, a 20-Year High - WSJ A buyer that earns the median household income and puts 20% down could afford a home costing roughly $339,000 this week. That buyer could have afforded a home costing almost $449,000 in January The cost of Fed inaction and reckless …
2022-10-11: Saudi Arabia Defied U.S. Warnings Ahead of OPEC+ Production Cut - WSJ U.S. officials called their counterparts in Saudi Arabia and other big Gulf producers with an urgent appeal—delay the decision for another month Yeah, come on guys, just delay until November 9th! Saudi …
2022-10-10: The Sexualization of Everything - Catholic Husband True human connection is authentic, emotional, and comes out of a deep desire for community. Our sexuality is an integral part of who we are, but it’s not a prerequisite for having a meaningful human relationship. ➕
2022-10-08: Congress Likely to Change Rules for IRA Catch-Up Contributions - WSJ “These changes to the catch-up contribution rules are designed to encourage people to save for retirement,” says Sarah Brenner Why not encourage all people to save for retirement? This two-tier system makes …
2022-10-04: Trump’s ‘Death Wish’ Rhetoric - WSJ Opinion Five weeks from Election Day, Mr. Trump could be working and spending money to elect a GOP Congress, or to help his home state of Florida recover from Hurricane Ian. Instead he’s attacking Mr. McConnell and his wife as part of a …
2022-10-03: Balance - Catholic Husband My days are stuffed with tasks, to-dos, school, and work, but I’m also feeling incredibly fulfilled. I see progress in my professional life and progress in my children, but as a result, my health has fallen by the wayside. ➕
2022-09-29: Six States Sue to Block Biden Student Debt Cancellation Plan - WSJ “Republican officials from these six states are standing with special interests, and fighting to stop relief for borrowers buried under mountains of debt,” said Abdullah Hasan, a White House spokesman. Special …
2022-09-27: Hero: DeSantis Flies Hurricane Ian To Martha’s Vineyard - Babylon Bee “I’ll tell you what, hurricanes have been tormenting Florida for too long. Not on my watch!” said DeSantis to a crowd of screaming fans. “So you know what? We’re gonna load …
2022-09-26: Congress Signs Up For $40 Billion Per Month Ukraine+ Subscription - Babylon Bee To avoid fighting over further spending bills, Congress has opted instead to sign up for the brand new subscription service Ukraine+, which only costs $40 billion per month. I think this is money …
2022-09-26: Episode 247: NASA We took the kids on a surprise trip to NASA. They join me on this beautiful fall morning to discuss what they learned.
2022-09-26: Plese Destroy - Catholic Husband It was the perfect teachable moment. We talked about how what he was doing, destroying the paper that had his sins written on it, is precisely what just happened to him in Reconciliation. God tore up his sins, never to remember them. ➕
2022-09-25: Toyota Engages With Critics of Its EV Push - WSJ Toyota has said it believes hybrids can reduce carbon emissions while the battery supply chains and charging networks necessary to support big fleets of EVs are built globally over the coming decades. Hybrid cars—which made up …
2022-09-22: Joe Manchin Releases Bill to Speed Up Energy Projects as Lawmakers Balk - WSJ Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) and several Democratic colleagues are pushing Mr. Schumer to keep the spending package and permitting package separate, stating in a letter that environmental issues …
2022-09-21: New York Attorney General Sues Trump, His Company on Fraud Allegations - WSJ A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization called the complaint “the culmination of nearly three years of persistent, targeted, unethical political harassment.” This professional vendetta that James …
2022-09-20: Legal Challenges to Student Loan Forgiveness Loom Before Midterms - WSJ Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.). Republicans “will take their case to court because, like it is with abortion, they know that can’t win with the public generally.” Has the Senator heard about the pot and …
2022-09-19: The Pope Abandons Cardinal Zen - WSJ Opinion On a return flight from Kazakhstan Thursday, the pope suggested this is no accident. When a reporter asked about Cardinal Zen, the pope offered not a word of support, noting only that the cardinal “says what he feels” despite knowing …
2022-09-19: A Single Spark - Catholic Husband That’s the funny thing about inertia; it’s so hard to overcome, but is completely broken by a singular step. Once you’re on the other side, momentum builds, and you start to wonder why it was ever able to hold you back. ➕
2022-09-18: Father Living His Best Life During Those 3 Hours On Saturday Morning When He’s The Only One Up - Babylon Bee Every Saturday morning, Walker’s able to do things he can’t do at any other time of the week. He reportedly plays one of the 767 Steam games he owns for …
2022-09-18: Walmart, Target Urge Lawmakers to Pass Bill Taking Aim at Visa, Mastercard Fees - WSJ In a letter this week to all members of Congress, the merchants said the proposed legislation would increase competition, leading to a reduction in the fees they pay when they accept credit …
2022-09-17: It’s always a good day when I get to climb into an airplane.
2022-09-17: The Man From Rivian Who Wants to Change How We Buy Cars - WSJ Dealers and state lawmakers who oppose Mr. Chen’s efforts say that independent dealerships play a critical role in the car-buying process, helping to create competition between franchises that ultimately keeps prices …
2022-09-16: A Sanctuary City Spectacle - WSJ Opinion This political moralizing is easier than actually doing something about the border. And, by the way, the federal government is also sending buses with migrants to northern cities, as New York’s Mayor Adams has acknowledged. Many migrants …
2022-09-15: Martha’s Vineyard Lovingly Welcomes Immigrants To Any Other Part Of America - Babylon Bee Several media outlets were on the scene as migrants were caringly herded back onto the buses by people wearing Brunello Cucinelli boat shoes and cashmere sweaters, who afterward ran …
2022-09-14: NASA Johnson Space Center We took our kids on a surprise trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for a chance to tour the museum. It was incredible to see these feats of human innovation on display. We touched a piece of the moon, learned about the progression of the US space program, and saw how …
2022-09-14: Boeing 747 carrying Space Shuttle Independence
2022-09-13: U.S. Inflation Eased Slightly to 8.3% in August - WSJ So-called core CPI, which excludes often volatile energy and food prices, increased 6.3% in August from a year earlier, up sharply from the 5.9% rate in both June and July—a signal that broad price pressures strengthened.
2022-09-12: Trump Voters Put Biden Signs In Their Yards So That The FBI Will Pass Over Them - Babylon Bee Fears have grown among conservatives as they have watched the Biden administration unleash a series of devastating plagues on the United States, including crushing inflation, oppressive …
2022-09-12: Freedom Squandered - Catholic Husband Freedom is not free, and even now, there are Americans standing guard around the world, separated from their friends and family, maintaining our peace and security. This is a flawed, but great nation, an experiment worth defending. A house …
2022-09-11: Never Forget 🇺🇸
2022-09-10: Solid start.
2022-09-09: Democrats for MAGA Republicans - WSJ Opinion By one estimate, Democrats have spent more than $40 million helping 2020 election skeptics win GOP primaries, even while fretting about them as a “threat to democracy.” They’re happy to gamble on that threat because their real concern …
2022-09-09: Policies Pushing Electric Vehicles Show Why Few People Want One - WSJ Opinion We constantly hear that electric cars are the future—cleaner, cheaper and better. But if they’re so good, why does California need to ban gasoline-powered cars? Why does the world spend $30 billion a …
2022-09-09: Democrats Were the First Election Deniers - WSJ Opinion On the House floor in 2005, the ranking Judiciary Committee Democrat, Rep. John Conyers (D., Mich.), presented the case for awarding Ohio to the Democrats, claiming “electronic machines transferred” votes from Mr. Kerry to …
2022-09-08: UPS is very bad at logistics.
2022-09-07: Biden Is Angry but Not Serious - WSJ Opinion Mr. Biden sounded like an overwrought sophomore by pretending that MAGA Republicanism presents a similar existential threat to democracy, and the next day he showed that even he didn’t believe his own claim that all Trump supporters …
2022-09-07: Biden’s Student-Debt-Forgiveness Plan May Cost Up to $1 Trillion, Challenging Deficit Goals - WSJ could cost as much as $1 trillion, according to budget analysts, challenging the administration’s efforts to scale down the federal deficit. First, the price tag keeps climbing and …
2022-09-06: How slow is UPS Ground? It will take 3 days for them to deliver me a package that is currently 1 hour away from my house.
2022-09-06: Liz Truss’s Inheritance: A U.K. Economy on Its Knees - WSJ Already struggling with a record backlog of 6.6 million patients waiting for treatment following the Covid-19 crisis, analysts say the National Health Service is showing severe signs of strain. People suffering strokes …
2022-09-06: Nutrition Advocates Push for Front-of-Package Labels That Highlight Fat, Sugar Levels - WSJ “People just don’t have the patience or the time to be detectives at store shelves, hunting for data that may be somewhere on the package,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), one …
2022-09-05: That moment when you pray the Rosary on the Hallow app, and Mark Wahlberg is leading, and it’s everything you expect it to be.
2022-09-05: Homeschooling - Catholic Husband There are many things to be said about homeschooling, but I think the simplest takeaway that I have is this. I like that my children are receiving a liberal arts education, starting from Day One of Kindergarten. ➕
2022-09-04: Look Who’s Rushing Covid Vaccines Now - WSJ Opinion Democrats and the public-health clerisy denounced President Trump for rushing Covid vaccines. They’ve been curiously quiet about the Food and Drug Administration’s gunshot approval last week of revamped booster shots with no …
2022-09-03: Another Week, Another Leak at the IRS - WSJ Opinion Democrats recently handed the IRS $80 billion in new funding in full knowledge of these shortcomings. Not to fix them, mind you. The legislation spends $4.8 billion on modernization but nearly 10 times as much on its top …
2022-09-03: Midterm Elections to Decide Fate of Biden’s Tax Agenda - WSJ “The president’s economic vision is about continuing to deliver for middle-class families, while congressional Republicans’ agenda is to sell those families out with more tax welfare for rich special interests,” said …
2022-09-02: Veterans Affairs to Provide Abortion Services for Health Dangers, Rape and Incest - WSJ The Department of Veterans Affairs, for the first time in its history, will provide abortion services and counseling to veterans in cases of health dangers, rape and incest, even at federal …
2022-09-01: Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and its fabulous price controls on prescription drugs for Medicare, the pharmaceutical company that has provided my monthly migraine medication for $0 out-of-pocket since 2020 has dramatically curtailed the program and now my …
2022-09-01: Ten (2022)
2022-08-31: Trump Parts Hudson River Leading Exodus Of New York Republicans To Florida - Babylon Bee New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently informed New York Republicans that they’re not welcome in her state. But lo, a chosen one of burnt papaya hue, Donald Trump, approached her and …
2022-08-31: This is a cool job. 🛩
2022-08-30: Guys Who Just Finished Burying Ananias Really Annoyed About Sapphira - Babylon Bee Peter apologized but insisted the trio also handle Sapphira’s burial. “I think it’s more poetic this way,” he insisted.
2022-08-29: Behold, Your Mother - Catholic Husband Holding Mary in this place of honor is not an invention of the Church or a theological musing, but Catholics taking seriously the truths entrusted to us in Scripture. Mary is our mother, and we treat her with the love and respect that she …
2022-08-28: The IRS Wants to Sell You on Its ‘Service’ - WSJ Opinion This month Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Robert Menendez and Rep. Abigail Spanberger cosigned a sternly worded letter to the IRS urging more responsiveness to taxpayers. Never mind that all three voted for a bill that funded …
2022-08-28: Sunday clouds.
2022-08-28: Joel Osteen Releases New Edition Of Bible With All Words Redacted - Babylon Bee Osteen had teased an update to The Redacted Study Bible where he’s gone ahead and de-classified the words “favor”, “victory”, “riches”, and …
2022-08-28: Wife Hands Husband Target Receipt With Classified Purchases Redacted - Babylon Bee “I’m being as transparent as I can at this time,” she assured her husband as he looked over the receipt, which was almost entirely just black bars save for the Target logo and …
2022-08-28: Biden’s Student-Loan Forgiveness Makes Reform Urgent - WSJ Opinion To capitalize on previous expansions of federal student-loan programs, universities have added more than 9,000 new master’s degree programs over the past decade. More are sure to come, even though research shows …
2022-08-27: Secret Service Seizes $286 Million in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds - WSJ The overall amount of fraudulently obtained Covid relief funds may reach $100 billion, the Secret Service said in an estimate released in December. Roughly the same amount of deficit reduction we get from …
2022-08-26: Google Says Maps, Searches Will Identify Clinics That Provide Abortions - WSJ “We’re now rolling out an update that makes it easier for people to find places that offer the services they’ve searched for, or broaden their results to see more options,” a Google representative …
2022-08-25: Is Summer over yet? ☀️
2022-08-24: Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: Who Qualifies, and How Much Debt Will Be Canceled? - WSJ What if I’ve already paid off my loans? As of the end of last year, fewer than 1.2% of borrowers continued making payments on their student loans, Mr. Kantrowitz said. But some of the …
2022-08-24: Every US adult getting student loan “forgivness” has now received $13,600 in no strings attached transfer payments in the past two years. But, you know, we really can’t afford a Navy that will stand up to China.
2022-08-24: I resent being financially responsible for someone else’s lifestyle choices.
2022-08-24: Washington’s Mar-a-Lago Prosecution by Leaks - WSJ Opinion In other words, “a person briefed on the matter” can leak details about the investigation to the press that the public is supposed to credit as true. But the actual “court filings and its work,” in Mr. Garland’s phrase, …
2022-08-23: Student Loan Forgiveness Is an Inflation Expansion Act - WSJ Opinion The reports say Mr. Biden will cancel $10,000 in debt for borrowers making $125,000 or less a year. That would cost about $300 billion this year, and $330 billion over 10 years, says the Penn Wharton Budget …
2022-08-23: White House Planning Student-Loan Announcement Wednesday - WSJ about his proposal for dealing with student-loan debt, according to people familiar with the matter. Get out your checkbooks.
2022-08-23: A Group of Apple Employees Protests Company’s Three-Day-a-Week Office Policy - WSJ The employees who want more flexible work arrangements had compelling reasons, the petition said, including disabilities, health concerns and the fact that some of them are happier and more …
2022-08-22: I love a rainy day.
2022-08-22: Come Let Us Adore - Catholic Husband Adoration is an opportunity to enter into God’s rest. It’s a chance to give ourselves permission to not worry, to not fret, to not be concerned with the stresses of our daily lives, but to pause and encounter the eucharistic Christ. ➕
2022-08-21: Children Are Priceless - WSJ Opinion But children aren’t merely cost centers. Even ignoring human affection and thinking in the most utilitarian terms, children are assets—to the families who raise them, to the nation in which they are born, and to the world to which they will …
2022-08-21: Liz Cheney and Her Unhappy Choice Among Liars - WSJ Opinion Offhand, only one lie heard in normal, everyday American discourse seems to me close in size to Mr. Trump’s 2020 lie, and that’s the routine, universally affirmed lie, which is nowhere found in the science, that climate …
2022-08-21: Even evil robots deserve a day at the links.
2022-08-20: This Is Your IRS at Work - WSJ Opinion In 2010 Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which was supposed to identify wealthy Americans using undisclosed foreign accounts. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation said this would raise some $9 billion in revenue by …
2022-08-20: Celsius Spent $40 Million on Crypto Mining in First Two Weeks of Bankruptcy - WSJ But Celsius expects the mining operation to start turning a profit by January They can’t afford redemptions, so they decide to spend 24% of free cash on a loss leader that won’t be profitable for …
2022-08-20: Golfer Buys New Driver So He Can Hit The Ball Farther Into The Woods - Babylon Bee Jefferson O’Malley recently purchased a $1,000 driver that would “totally fix his game.” Sources confirm that the club has indeed improved his ability, as he can now hit the ball …
2022-08-19: Biden Plan Would Return Student Loan Borrowers in Default to Good Standing - WSJ “Access to federal student aid can provide a pathway for additional education, which can help these borrowers compete in the job market and ultimately improve their ability to fully repay their …
2022-08-19: Toyota Executive Warns EVs Face Obstacles to Wider Adoption - WSJ “I don’t think the market is ready for what the rhetoric is saying,” Mr. Hollis said. And it’s going to be incredibly painful for car makers and shareholders if this bet on the farm sours.
2022-08-19: Catholics Unveil High-Capacity Assault Rosary - Babylon Bee Sources indicate many were able to use an advanced telescopic sight to aim thoughts and prayers at friends and family up to 400 yards away. Swiss Guards deployed in Vatican City have advised Catholics not to aim the new …
2022-08-19: Overweight Man Reassures Doctor That His 8.5% Weight Inflation Is No Longer A Problem As His Weight Inflation This Month Is 0 - Babylon Bee “In fact, my doctor was expecting my weight gain to be up by 8.7%, but boy did I prove him wrong! My weight gain is only up 8.5% for …
2022-08-18: Son’s alligator.
2022-08-18: Brian Stelter to Leave CNN After Cancellation of ‘Reliable Sources’ - WSJ Brian Stelter, the host of CNN’s Sunday morning show “Reliable Sources,” is leaving the network following the cancellation of the long-running media news show, the network said Thursday. I’m all about …
2022-08-18: Google Workers Press Company to Stop Collecting Abortion Data - WSJ The petition, signed by more than 650 workers, also called on the company to remove search results for crisis pregnancy centers, which it said were misleading to those seeking abortions. Crisis pregnancy centers …
2022-08-18: Cheney, Trump and the GOP - WSJ Opinion GOP voters can hate what happened on Jan. 6 but also dislike the tactics of a committee that excluded Republicans who might have cross-examined witnesses.
2022-08-17: Nice to have a clean desk.
2022-08-17: Producers Confirm Liz Cheney Will Not Be Back For Season 2 Of January 6 Hearings - Babylon Bee “It’s been my honor to serve the people of Wyoming by spending my every waking minute fighting Donald Trump, just like Abraham Lincoln did,” said Cheney. “I …
2022-08-17: Episode 246: Golf Lesson I catch up with the kids now that they’re back from vacation and discuss their first golf lessons. 🏌🏻♂️
2022-08-16: Biden Signs Bill Aimed at Lowering Drug Costs, Boosting Renewable Energy - WSJ Mr. Biden’s approval ratings have been dragged down by months of high inflation Thankfully we now have the Inflation Reduction Act to save us! In 2027, when these measures kick in, we’ll have …
2022-08-16: Joe Biden to Sign Bill Aimed at Lowering Drug Costs, Boosting Renewable Energy - WSJ Mr. Biden is planning to sign the bill at the White House on Tuesday Announcement of massive student loan cancellation to follow.
2022-08-15: Record Numbers of Migrants Cross Southern Border, on Track for Annual Total of Two Million - WSJ In July, agents arrested about 182,000 migrants crossing the border illegally, with about two-thirds of those arrested being single adults. About 22% of those arrested involved …
2022-08-15: Brand New Tactical Knife Is The Same One Used By Navy SEALs To Open Their Wives’ Amazon Packages - Babylon Bee The Boxer MK 4 features a 3” stainless steel blade that flips closed for compact concealment and features a handle with aluminum scales underneath rubber …
2022-08-15: Comfort - Catholic Husband Despite overcoming almost every natural barrier, we haven’t found happiness. Like the people of Israel, we have a direct connection to knowledge of God, but we choose not to let it change us. They had the prophets, we have the Eucharistic Christ and …
2022-08-14: Restaurant is almost completely empty. The wait is 10 minutes. Um, what?
2022-08-13: My foray and finale in cabinetry.
2022-08-12: Angel Outside Trump’s Empty Safe Tells FBI Agents, ‘Behold! The Document You Seek Is Not Here!’ - Babylon Bee The FBI reported the incident to the FBI Director and Attorney General, who paid the agents to keep silent on the matter and instead tell everyone that …
2022-08-12: Gamers Eagerly Await The Release Of ‘Call Of Duty: IRS Auditor’ - Babylon Bee As you gain experience you can outfit your agent with new calculators and weapons as you work toward tackling more dangerous assignments like auditing the estate of Nicolas Cage or Donald …
2022-08-12: To Restore Trust With Americans, FBI Names New Director Burt Macklin - Babylon Bee “Burt Macklin, you’ve done it again,” said Burt Macklin with a smirk while putting on his aviator glasses at a public press conference. “You all thought I was dead, …
2022-08-12: House Passes Democrats’ Climate, Healthcare and Tax Package - WSJ “This is a substantive policy achievement,” said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D., Mass.). Nice of Congress to come back from vacation to quickly pass an immediate tax increase on every …
2022-08-11: Equifax Should Face Curbs on Selling Credit Scores, Maxine Waters Says - WSJ We are working closely with our customers on this issue and stand behind our customers and impacted consumers. Direct quote from Equifax CEO. Note that “customers” and “consumers” are two distinct …
2022-08-11: 10 Ways To Avoid Getting Audited By One Of The 87,000 New IRS Agents - Babylon Bee If the IRS says they’re going to audit you, just say ‘no thanks’: You’ll be surprised how often this works.
2022-08-10: The FBI’s Dangerous Search at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago - WSJ Opinion Didn’t someone at Justice point out that a search in this case would draw comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information before her 2016 presidential campaign? She was never prosecuted, as Mr. …
2022-08-09: Report: FBI Raided Mar-A-Lago After Tip That Parents Were Protesting A School Board Meeting There - Babylon Bee “When we received an anonymous tip that parents were assembling to criticize public school curriculum and policy, we sprung into action – we should have …
2022-08-09: Deliveries of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Set to Resume in Coming Days - WSJ The first jet was inspected and cleared Monday, according to people familiar with the matter. Great news for a great plane.
2022-08-09: U.S. Lawmakers Look to Digital Dollar to Compete With China - WSJ A digital dollar could provide a new option to the way consumers pay for products and services. In addition to using a credit or debit card—or Venmo or Apple Pay—individuals would have a digital version of cash on …
2022-08-08: Letting Go of Efficiency - Catholic Husband I’m a very efficient person, but when it comes to each day and each task, it’s okay if I invite my children into my world, and I perform at a level just a few notches below peak. ➕
2022-08-07: Hope you had a nice weekend! The United States Senate just passed a bill to raise taxes on every single American, from those making $10,000 a year all the way up to $1,000,000+. So much for only raising taxes on people making $400,000+.
2022-08-06: I love a good late summer storm. ⛈
2022-08-05: Inflation Reduction Act Tax Changes: Details & Analysis - Tax Foundation It would also reduce average after-tax incomes for taxpayers across every income quintile over the long run. And if we’re honest with ourselves, the government is so much better at spending our money …
2022-08-05: Summer storms.
2022-08-05: Do you know the perfect solution to high inflation and a recession? More spending and new taxes!
2022-08-04: The grain silo is never empty. It’s a lot of work, but I’m grateful for the work.
2022-08-03: Curls (2022)
2022-08-03: Cost of Democrats’ Corporate-Tax Increase Skews to Wealthy, Reaches Middle Class - WSJ “These companies are playing the most games, and avoiding tax by manufacturing their drugs, phones, and shoes abroad,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) said. “This is a …
2022-08-02: Equifax Sent Lenders Inaccurate Credit Scores on Millions of Consumers - WSJ “The impact is going to be quite small,” Mr. Begor said, “not something that’s meaningful to Equifax.” Terrible quote from an even worse company.
2022-08-02: Rivian Says Senate Climate Deal Puts It at Disadvantage - WSJ The company, in particular, takes issue with a planned cap that would make any electric trucks, SUVs and vans selling for more than $80,000 ineligible for the federal subsidy. It also opposes the proposed income …
2022-08-02: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging Idaho Abortion Law - WSJ The Justice Department says Idaho’s abortion restrictions unlawfully conflict with a federal law that requires hospitals accepting Medicare to provide emergency treatments, which can sometimes include …
2022-08-01: I know well, answers Jesus Christ, that one drop of my blood, or a simple prayer, would be sufficient for the salvation of the world. But neither would be sufficient to show the love which I bear to men. -St. Alphonsus Liguori
2022-08-01: Putin Awards Self Medal Of Freedom For Dropping Gas Prices - Babylon Bee After months of singlehandedly raising America’s gas prices without any help whatsoever from the Biden administration, Russian President Vladimir Putin has mercifully given Americans a short break by …
2022-08-01: ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Is an Insult to Used-Car Salesmen - WSJ Opinion If a bill that reduces the deficit by $300 billion over 10 years represents “inflation reduction,” what are we to make of a law Congress passed last year that increased the deficit by an estimated $1.7 …
2022-08-01: Diligence - Catholic Husband The spiritual life is the biggest project any of us ever undertake. Enduring a lifetime of trial, triumph, defeat, and temptation requires that we, as St. Paul said, run the race. We have to put in the effort, do the work, and not let despair set in. …
2022-07-31: Field Notes are a delight.
2022-07-30: Federal Student-Loan Program Cost Estimate Was Off By $311 Billion, Government Watchdog Says - WSJ According to Friday’s GAO report, which examined the federal program dating back to 1997, it lost money on loans issued in all but one year over the past quarter-century. …
2022-07-30: Democrats Quickly Redefine ‘Loss’ After Losing Congressional Baseball Game - Babylon Bee “Yes, some sports commentators have defined ‘loss’ as any game in which you have fewer runs than the opposing team,” acknowledged Pelosi. “But there …
2022-07-29: Watching YouTube on my tv. This is nice!
2022-07-29: Security Alert - Update to Travel Advisory for Russia - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia Do not travel to Russia due to ongoing tension along the border with Ukraine, the potential for harassment against U.S. citizens, the embassy’s limited ability to assist U.S. citizens …
2022-07-29: The Biden Stagflation Arrives - WSJ Opinion Mr. Biden inherited a growing economy primed to roar back from the pandemic, and in barely a year and a half he has dragged America back to the 1970s. The best word for what we have now is stagflation, the ugly combination of slow …
2022-07-29: The Lonely Office Is Bad for America - WSJ Opinion People starting out need offices to learn a profession, to make friends, meet colleagues, find romantic partners and mates. The #MeToo movement did a lot to damage mentoring—senior employees no longer wanted to take the …
2022-07-28: The Senate GOP Got Played - WSJ Opinion Republicans helped Democrats pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill last year full of green pork. They boasted about victories for permitting reform, while keeping out a tax increase and $80 billion that Democrats wanted for the Internal …
2022-07-28: This might be the most perfect sticker in my collection. I smile every time that I see it.
2022-07-28: U.S. Presses Offer to Free Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan From Russian Detention - WSJ The U.S. offered to release Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in order to secure the freedom of Ms. Griner and Mr. Whelan, according to people familiar with the matter. Hey everyone, if the US …
2022-07-28: Biden: ‘I Don’t Know If We’re In A Recession, I’m Not A Biologist’ - Babylon Bee America’s GDP has fallen over the last two quarters, stoking fears of a possible recession due to the fact that America is now in a recession.
2022-07-28: U.S. GDP Rose Slightly in Second Quarter, Economists Estimate - WSJ Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal estimated the Commerce Department will report Thursday that gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the nation, rose at a …
2022-07-28: Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate) - U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2022 (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released …
2022-07-28: Joe Manchin Reaches Deal With Chuck Schumer on Energy, Healthcare, Tax Package - WSJ The IRS money, about $80 billion over a decade, would roughly double the size of the agency and be aimed at tougher enforcement, particularly on high-income households and corporations. Most …
2022-07-27: A Recession by Any Other Name - WSJ Opinion The president’s economic team should think twice before discounting the risk of a recession. After all, they stumbled into the current inflationary crisis after a year of trying to manipulate the language: Inflation was “transitory” …
2022-07-27: Senate Bill Takes Aim at Visa, Mastercard Credit-Card Fees - WSJ Mr. Durbin spearheaded a similar rule for debit cards over a decade ago. The Durbin amendment, part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, requires that merchants have the ability to choose from at least two unaffiliated …
2022-07-27: All this time since “tabs everywhere!” and Microsoft Office for Mac still doesn’t support tabs. The worst!
2022-07-26: Democrats Campaign for the Trump Guy - WSJ Opinion One of the strangest themes of the 2022 elections is that Democrats say President Trump is a grave threat to democracy, even as they’re also trying to help Mr. Trump’s acolytes win Republican primaries. This is a perverse, …
2022-07-26: Joe Biden Signs ‘Don’t Say Recession’ Bill - Babylon Bee According to sources, those who break the law and use the word “recession” will face up to 10 years in prison, which after inflation, amounts to 17 years.
2022-07-25: Student Loan Servicers Told to Hold Off on Sending Billing Statements - WSJ “The situation is that we’re almost 30 days away from the planned resumption and the department has been telling servicers to hold off on resumption communications for the last few months,” said Mr. …
2022-07-25: ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’ Is Canceled After Seven Seasons - WSJ The decision to pull the plug on “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” a critically acclaimed weekly political humor show that had been running for seven seasons, is part of a broader overhaul of the Warner Bros. …
2022-07-25: How Do Economists Determine Whether the Economy Is in a Recession? - The White House What is a recession? While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the …
2022-07-25: Spring Water - Catholic Husband When you think about the best glass of water you’ve ever had, it’s analogous to the refreshing nature of God’s love. A cool, clear, clean, crisp, and fresh relief for a tired and weary soul. ➕
2022-07-24: In Maryland, Democrats Traduce Democracy - WSJ Opinion The Democrats’ hypocrisy will continue to erode what remaining trust the public has in our political processes. The DGA presents itself as leading “the fight to defend our democracy” as it spends tens of millions of dollars …
2022-07-24: Bernie Sanders and ‘Doomerism’ - WSJ Opinion “We can’t give in to doomerism,” tweets Sen. Bernie Sanders (socialist, Vt.). It seems to be a refreshing new message from a man who’s been claiming for more than half a century that America is in crisis and in need of revolutionary …
2022-07-23: Foggy morning, country road
2022-07-22: Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient - WSJ Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Alphabet Inc.’s Google, told the company he believed that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, is a person who has rights and might well have a soul. …
2022-07-22: Steve Bannon Found Guilty of Contempt of Congress - WSJ Mr. Corcoran also called the case “infected by politics” because the prosecution’s main witness, congressional lawyer Kristin Amerling, has worked for Democratic Party lawmakers, donated to Democrats, and was in a book club …
2022-07-22: ‘National Emergency’ and the Democrats’ Apocalyptic Politics - WSJ Opinion The rest of the country is still looking for that promised, but undelivered, return to normal.
2022-07-21: Netflix Loses 1 Million Subscribers, Leaving 10 Million People Wondering Why Their Netflix Login Doesn’t Work Anymore - Babylon Bee Netflix has also promised to change course by cracking down on account sharing after a survey found that most customers couldn’t even …
2022-07-21: Biden Places ‘I Did That’ Sticker On Gas Pump After Price Drops Two Cents - Babylon Bee “And remember Putin makes prices go up. Biden makes prices go down!”
2022-07-20: Lawmakers Move to Clarify Vice President’s Role in Certifying Presidential Election Results - WSJ The legislation was the result of months of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats eager to make changes to the 1887 law to eliminate uncertainty regarding the electoral …
2022-07-20: The ‘Beast Mode’ Presidency? - WSJ Opinion While a President may sometimes need to act with dispatch during an emergency, climate change isn’t close to such an event. Climate change is neither sudden nor unexpected. The world has warmed by 1.1 degree Celsius since the late 19th …
2022-07-19: AOC Sits In Invisible Police Car Awaiting Transport To Invisible Jail - Babylon Bee “It is absolutely heinous that the Supreme Court would ask us to like, make laws,” said Representative Ilhan Omar. “We are far too busy leading protests about abortion to …
2022-07-18: Anthony Fauci Plans to Retire by End of Biden’s Term - WSJ Dr. Fauci said Monday he hadn’t decided on a date but planned to step down by the end of Mr. Biden’s term in January 2025. The nice thing about government jobs, you can be terrible and still keep it. And leave on your …
2022-07-18: Die Another Day 🍿
2022-07-18: I gave myself the “day off” today, and yet I’ve been busy since breakfast. Time to sit down and enjoy a movie before the evening outdoor work session.
2022-07-18: Episode 245: Only Child With the big kids still on vacation, Veronica has the whole place to herself.
2022-07-18: Slow Progress - Catholic Husband Over the centuries, the Christian concept of the human person started to be accepted by society and enshrined in law. No longer were people valued for their utilitarian values; they were valued for existing. Christians placed a value on the life …
2022-07-17: “Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with four other couples… all of us wanting the same thing— for the world to recognize us as partners and to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.” On her …
2022-07-17: Biden Calls On The Economy To Stop Being Bad - Babylon Bee “Come on, economy!” said an impassioned President Biden. “Make everything cheaper! Give everyone more money! I hereby demand you stop being atrocious! Do it. Do it now!” That ought to do it. Wish …
2022-07-16: Senate Climate Setback Puts Pressure on Biden - WSJ Some of those measures could raise gasoline prices and other energy costs for consumers, something Mr. Biden wants to avoid as his Democratic Party faces crucial midterm elections. Why is it this Administration is always …
2022-07-15: NASA’s James Webb Telescope Images Show Deep Space in Exquisite Detail - WSJ The images released Tuesday show the Carina Nebula, one of the largest stellar nurseries; the Southern Ring Nebula, a cloud of gas around a dying star in the constellation Vela; and a group of five …
2022-07-14: Joe Biden’s Presidency Is Sinking - WSJ Opinion it’s more than too much to see the Democrats who gave the country Joe Biden and designed the policies that collapsed beneath him knifing their own creation. Et tu, Bernie? Strong agree. We’re living in the America that they …
2022-07-14: Beautiful start to the day.
2022-07-13: Americans Offer To Trade LeBron To Russia For Brittney Griner - Babylon Bee Griner reported being happy to hear of the petition but concerned that LeBron might not last long in a tough Russian prison where people foul you all the time and there are no refs to stop it.
2022-07-13: U.S. Inflation Hits New Four-Decade High of 9.1% - WSJ The consumer-price index’s pace for June eclipsed May’s annual rate of 8.6% that led Federal Reserve officials to shift to a faster pace of benchmark interest-rate increases, according to meeting minutes released last week. …
2022-07-12: Frontier Asks Spirit Airlines to Further Delay Shareholder Vote on Deal - WSJ Frontier Group Holdings Inc. said it is done bidding against rival JetBlue Airways Corp. for Spirit Airlines Inc. and wants Spirit to delay its shareholder vote once again to allow Frontier more time …
2022-07-12: Up North Another summer road trip is in the books. We escaped the enduring Western heat to explore Northern Michigan on a week-long excursion. Although I’d formerly worked in Western Michigan, my travels didn’t take me much further north than Traverse City. In Michigan-terms, there’s a …
2022-07-11: Ron DeSantis Runs Ad In California Asking Libs Not To Move To Florida - Babylon Bee “Still thinking Florida is right for you, Cali libs? Well, just remember that we have American flags all over our state, we LOVE guns — and most importantly — President Trump lives here …
2022-07-11: Soo Locks United States Post Office.
2022-07-11: Pause - Catholic Husband It was not easy at first, and I knew I was storing up a massive backlog when I returned. But my choice was simple: vacation means vacation. Permission to not think about work, do work, or worry about work. I was free to be in the moment, say yes to most …
2022-07-10: Long day on the open road. 🛣
2022-07-09: Mass without the kids is… more still?
2022-07-08: Episode 244: Canada 🇨🇦 ChetCast goes international! The kids took their first trip abroad today and they stop by before bedtime to tell you all about it.
2022-07-08: Old tradition meets new.
2022-07-08: Picnic with a view.
2022-07-08: Soo Locks filling up at a rate of 1 million gallons per minute.
2022-07-08: Taking a ride in the Soo Locks.
2022-07-08: Good morning, Canada! 🇨🇦
2022-07-07: Cross in the Woods.
2022-07-06: The Grand.
2022-07-06: Great Lake.
2022-07-06: Episode 243: Fort Mackinac High atop Mackinac Island, eating lunch in the historic Fort Mackinac, I chat with Benedict about his day so far, and his plans for the future of the Fort.
2022-07-06: Lunch at Ft. Mackinac
2022-07-06: Passing under the Mackinac Bridge.
2022-07-05: Visiting the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw in port today.
2022-07-04: Happy Birthday, America! 🇺🇸
2022-07-04: Worth Celebrating - Catholic Husband The voices of despair rise and fall, and we hear them daily today. But they look at a narrow window of our nation’s history, a snapshot in time that fails to capture the stunning progress that we’ve made. We are a flawed people, but despite …
2022-07-03: The parking lot behind the hotel is completely empty, except for a single rental bike. Sitting, waiting for its next rider to come along.
2022-07-02: Nice day for a road trip.
2022-07-01: Biden Seeks to Block New Offshore Drilling in Atlantic, Pacific - WSJ The Biden administration plans to block new offshore oil drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, while allowing limited expansion in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s south coast. The proposal released by …
2022-07-01: Running Short On Funds For A July 4th Barbecue, Man Opens The Family Safe To Retrieve The 16 Cents He Saved Last Year - Babylon Bee Several more families in the neighborhood invested their 16 cents in Bitcoin and their investment is now worth 8 cents. Terrible!
2022-07-01: Episode 242: Vacation Plans The road-trip starts tomorrow, so I asked the kids about what they’re going to do while on vacation.
2022-07-01: How cool is it that I can stand in my driveway, look up, and see Uranus, an unfathomable distance away?
2022-06-30: Supreme Court Puts Brakes on EPA in Far-Reaching Decision - WSJ “This Court has established at least one firm rule: ‘We expect Congress to speak clearly’ if it wishes to assign to an executive agency decisions ‘of vast economic and political significance,’ ” Justice Gorsuch …
2022-06-30: Spirit Air Board Pushes Shareholders Meeting on Frontier Bid for Second Time - WSJ As votes came in ahead of the planned meeting, it looked like it would be difficult for the Frontier deal to be approved by shareholders, according to people familiar with the matter. Rigged!
2022-06-30: At my desk, last day before vacation, watching the sun come up as I do tedious research.
2022-06-29: New York Gun Permit Bill Would Require In-Person Training and Mental Health Records Check - WSJ Possession of a handgun in a private business would be banned unless the business expressly allowed people to carry. Other requirements seem reasonable. This provision is ripe for …
2022-06-29: 21 Greatest Benefits Of Becoming A Dad - Babylon Bee You can finally own a puppy against your will.
2022-06-29: Jan. 6 Committee Says Cassidy Hutchinson Told Them That She Heard Mark Meadows Say That A Secret Service Agent’s Friend’s Cousin’s Husband Once Heard That One Of Trump’s Other Aides Said She Thinks She Heard Him Say He Wanted To ‘Do An Insurrection’ - Babylon Bee …
2022-06-29: Supreme Court Says Oklahoma Can Prosecute Non-Tribal Cases in Indian Country - WSJ Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr., said in a statement: “With today’s decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against legal precedent and the basic principles of congressional …
2022-06-29: Episode 241: Junior Farmers We’ve got crops.
2022-06-28: Rapidweaver release and Studio Display arrived. Big day. 🖥
2022-06-27: An unsung victory in overturning Roe is that States are once again free to hold physicians performing abortions and their facilities to the same surgical and licensing standards as every other medical surgical practice. This was a huge patient safety issue.
2022-06-27: Really looking forward to the new Rapidweaver tomorrow.
2022-06-27: The Work Begins - Catholic Husband Our message, from the very beginning, is so simple that we teach it to kindergartners. Every person has value and is worth protecting. Now if only we can get our society to internalize it. ➕
2022-06-26: Student-Loan Forgiveness for Public-Service Workers Totals $8.1 Billion Since October - WSJ When combined, the Biden administration’s efforts to cancel debts held by borrowers with disabilities, students who were defrauded by their schools, borrowers in the public-service …
2022-06-25: Where, O death, is your victory? 1 Corinthians 15:55
2022-06-25: Back when I was a kid, The Onion was funny.
2022-06-25: Never Enough Government, Says the SEC - WSJ Opinion Americans get so much government, they find it nearly impossible to get the government they need or want. It’s an American paradox. Taxpayers spent billions over decades to build up the Food and Drug Administration and Centers …
2022-06-24: Slavery, Civil War, Segregation, Abortion. America’s capacity to self-correct, to turn away from degradations of the human person without external intervention, is an exception in the history of government. What a privilege it is to be part of this durable democracy. 🇺🇸 Now the …
2022-06-24: Journalism style guide for covering SCOTUS: 5-4 for Obergefell: “A, historic landmark decision!” 5-4 for Dobbs: “A deeply divided Court.”
2022-06-24: Fertility Doctors Move Embryos to Other States in Case of Roe v. Wade Impact - WSJ Many embryos created through IVF aren’t viable, fertility specialists said, and those that aren’t ultimately transferred into a uterus may be discarded. Some fertility and legal experts said the …
2022-06-24: Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Get Closer With Senate Vote - WSJ Paul Richman, chief government and political affairs officer at the Insured Retirement Institute, which represents the insurance industry and supports the bill First red flag.
2022-06-23: Reminder: If You Read Half The Bible Today You Can Catch Up On Your Year-Long Reading Plan - The Babylon Bee Of course, you don’t have to put too much pressure on yourself. You could easily start it tomorrow. Just add a couple of pages and you’re good to go. Luckily …
2022-06-23: A little present waiting at my desk this morning.
2022-06-22: Trump Pick Wins Alabama GOP Senate Primary - WSJ Republican voters in Alabama selected Katie Britt as their nominee for Senate in a runoff primary election, after receiving the endorsement of former President Donald Trump I use the same strategy in my sports betting portfolio. …
2022-06-22: Biden to Call for Three-Month Federal Gasoline Tax Suspension - WSJ A suspension of the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal gasoline tax and 24.4-cents-a-gallon diesel tax through September would require congressional approval, so a move by Mr. Biden to throw his support behind the …
2022-06-21: Before doing the Bible in a Year podcast, I always thought of myself as a New Testament Catholic. But now that I’m deep into this study, and seeing that the Bible is 90% Old Testament, I really appreciate how foundational to my faith the Old Testament is.
2022-06-20: Fathers for Good - Catholic Husband God has shared with us His power and His title, may we strive to be worthy of the gift. ➕
2022-06-19: Nation’s Dads Participate In Ancient Ritual Of One Yearly Guilt-Free Nap - The Babylon Bee “Dads spend all year looking forward to Father’s Day when we are given permission to lie down on the couch or in our recliner without our wives standing over us and reminding …
2022-06-19: Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ Generates Lackluster Buzz at the Movie Theater - WSJ Fewer families than expected went this weekend to see “Lightyear,” underscoring the challenge of winning big audiences in a summer crowded with movie blockbusters. Or maybe families didn’t want Pixar and …
2022-06-19: Cold Brew O’Clock
2022-06-19: Gasoline Tax Holiday ‘Worth Considering,’ Yellen Says - WSJ But in the U.S. Congress, Democratic-led efforts to temporarily stop collecting the federal gasoline tax of 18.4 cents a gallon have yet to gain traction. Gas is up $2 in the past 12 months, and Congress’ solution is …
2022-06-19: The Crypto Party Is Over - WSJ At times, crypto has looked like a combination of Beanie Babies, dot-com stocks and the Velvet Underground: It is manic, it is money, and all the cool people are into it. It has also shared characteristics with other bubbles throughout history, …
2022-06-18: Cauliflower, you’ve never looked so good!
2022-06-18: Currently reading: Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms by Justin Whitmel Earley 📚
2022-06-17: Man Starting To Wonder If He Shouldn’t Have Invested His Life Savings In An Imaginary Token Saying He Owns A Digital Painting Of A Cartoon Monkey - The Babylon Bee This week, local man Don Johnson told friends and family he had been struck with a revelation: his “Bored …
2022-06-16: Episode 240: Start of Summer We’ve been slow to put out podcasts while on summer vacation, so we catch up with the kids to see what they’re up to.
2022-06-16: Study: Inflation Forcing More Americans To Choose Between Buying Groceries, Aston Martin DBS - The Onion “With the prices of supermarket staples like milk and bread at all-time highs, we’re seeing more families faced with making the difficult decision between eating dinner and …
2022-06-15: Fed Raises Rates by 0.75 Percentage Point, Largest Increase Since 1994 - WSJ …and signaled it would continue lifting rates this year at the most rapid pace in decades as it races to slow the economy and combat inflation that is running at a 40-year high. Good morning! 👋🏻 Nice …
2022-06-14: Climate-Change Censorship: Phase Two - WSJ Opinion Now progressives are moving to censorship phase two, which is shutting down debate over climate “solutions.” “Now it’s not so much denying the problem,” Ms. McCarthy said in an Axios interview last Thursday. “What the industry …
2022-06-14: Crypto Legislation Could Undermine Market Regulations, Gensler Says - WSJ Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler expressed concern Tuesday that efforts in Congress to write legislation for the cryptocurrency industry could compromise regulations that govern the …
2022-06-14: Apple, Major League Soccer Strike 10-Year Streaming Deal for All MLS Games - WSJ The agreement will make the Apple TV app the home of all MLS matches, available to fans through a variety of programming options. Financial terms for the deal weren’t disclosed. Waste of money.
2022-06-13: Universal Church - Catholic Husband In a confessional at the back of his parish, he received the loving mercy of Christ, and didn’t understand a word that the priest said. That is a really cool thing. ➕
2022-06-12: U.S., European Allies Try to Restrain Global Oil Prices - WSJ With gasoline prices climbing to records in the U.S., and inflation the Biden administration’s top economic policy priority, U.S. officials across the administration are reviewing ways to try to stabilize global oil …
2022-06-12: Rick Scott Revises Tax-Increase Proposal After Facing Criticism - WSJ But the outline would have marked a radical change from today’s tax system, in which more than 40% of Americans don’t pay income taxes or get net income tax benefits because they earn too little or use …
2022-06-12: White House Attempts To Distract From High Gas Prices By Putting Up Wacky Inflatable Tube Men In Front Of Price Signs - The Babylon Bee “The problem is not our policies, the problem is that the media has done a terrible job communicating how great we are”
2022-06-11: Swimming lessons are fun. And exhausting. 🏊🏻♂️
2022-06-10: ‘Peak Inflation’ Keeps Peaking - WSJ Opinion One lesson is that progressive welfare spending and expanded child-tax credits in the name of aiding workers contributed to inflation that erased the value of those benefits. Workers would be far better off now if Congress hadn’t …
2022-06-10: The Evidence of the Jan. 6 Committee - WSJ Opinion The House inquiry into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot launched its TV miniseries Thursday night, and the trick for parsing the proceedings is to keep two ideas in tension. Do Democrats want to unfairly besmirch the entire GOP …
2022-06-10: U.S. Inflation Hit 8.6% in May - WSJ U.S. consumer inflation reached an 8.6% annual rate in May, its highest level in more than four decades as surging energy and food prices pushed prices higher. There will be entire books and college courses taught on how this government …
2022-06-10: American Women Once Again Make Their Yearly Pilgrimage To The Magnolia Silos - The Babylon Bee “If I could but touch the hem of Joanna’s dress I might be blessed with a vision for farmhouse decor in my own life!” said Susan Vail, who guilted her husband into …
2022-06-10: Rapid Pace of U.S. Inflation Held Steady in May, Economists Estimate - WSJ The Labor Department on Friday is estimated to report that the consumer-price index rose 8.3% in May from the same month a year ago, the same as in April, according to economists surveyed by The Wall …
2022-06-10: Yellen Sees High Gasoline Prices Persisting - WSJ She said President Biden’s decision to release oil from the strategic petroleum reserve this year was the administration’s main tool to put downward pressure on prices. What an embarrassing way to end a distinguished career. …
2022-06-10: Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Case Against Donald Trump in First Public Hearing - WSJ The hearing, shown on cable television and most major broadcast outlets, was the first in a series scheduled over the next two weeks. Inflation is at a four-decades high with no end in sight, …
2022-06-09: I honestly believe that no one on the Office for Mac dev team has ever touched a Mac.
2022-06-08: Tesla Employees’ Cars Will Now Drive Them To Work Against Their Will - The Babylon Bee “At midnight on June 8, your vehicle will automatically install a mandatory software update. Expect bug fixes, stability improvements, and your vehicle driving you to your workspace to begin …
2022-06-07: BA.4, BA.5 Variants Rise Among U.S. Covid-19 Cases - WSJ Omicron Covid-19 variants BA.4 and BA.5 are on the rise in the U.S., adding two more highly contagious versions of the virus to the mix that has fueled a springtime surge in cases. Anyone know what this is talking about?
2022-06-06: What It’s Like to Be a Victim of Private Planes - WSJ Opinion Which category—the flight romantics or their victims—is more numerous? Apart from that, who is entitled to the freedom of the air above your house? The question of who owns that air and who may put it to use for their …
2022-06-06: Biden Decision on Student-Loan Forgiveness Unlikely Until Later in Summer, Officials Say - WSJ Officials said he remains concerned about the possible effects the move could have on record inflation, cautious about doing anything that could be perceived as contributing to high …
2022-06-06: Biden’s Teleprompter Resigns To Take Job At MSNBC - The Babylon Bee The teleprompter delivered his resignation at the end of Biden’s latest speech, sowing confusion as Biden continued to read everything on screen. “I can’t take this anymore! I …
2022-06-06: Friday Night Adoration - Catholic Husband Benedict is still a little boy, flexing his autonomy, but not yet at that period of growth when he will seek more distance from his parents. He was excited to spend Daddy and Me time, without the presence of any girls, on a Friday night. …
2022-06-05: Individual Income Tax Payments on Pace to Reach Record Level - WSJ CBO director Phillip Swagel said. “It’s a mystery. It’s a maybe happy mystery, to have strong revenues.” Yeah, now instead of taxpayers using their own money to purchase goods and services in their communities, …
2022-06-04: New Options for Using Leftover ‘529’ Plan Funds - WSJ The Helping Parents Save for College Act would, in limited circumstances, let participants transfer or roll over some 529 account funds into a Roth IRA. To do so, the account would have to be open for at least 10 years and …
2022-06-04: Book Review: The Revolution that Wasn’t 📚 The GameStop rally was a crazy story last year, that I followed like everyone else. I think that _The Wall Street Journal_ did an excellent job of trying to explain it in real time. Now, 18 months later and the dust settled, the real story is getting out. It was a craze like any …
2022-06-03: A Reading From Kamala Harris to the Corinthians - WSJ Opinion First nationalize student loans claiming this will save money for taxpayers. Next let students pile up debt at for-profit colleges. Then prosecute those colleges for fraud and put them out of business. Then forgive …
2022-06-03: John Durham vs. the Beltway Swamp - WSJ Opinion The trial environment was no less intimate. Judge Christopher Cooper worked with Mr. Sussmann at the Clinton Justice Department in the 1990s. Merrick Garland, today attorney general, officiated at the judge’s marriage to Amy …
2022-06-02: How the Pro-Life Democrat Went Extinct - WSJ Opinion It’s ironic that the Democratic Party, which is ostensibly built around the defense of the weak and the marginalized, is so fervidly committed to the right to kill the most vulnerable.
2022-06-02: Biden Reveals His Plan Is To Just Raise Gas Prices Until The Counter Spins Back To Zero - The Babylon Bee “Listen, folks, It’s too late to lower gas prices. No one knows how to do that,” said the President. “So we’re just gonna keep raising those …
2022-06-02: Finished reading: The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors by Spencer Jakab 📚
2022-06-02: When Progressives Fail, Inflation Edition - WSJ Opinion “I think I was wrong then about the path that inflation would take,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told CNN on Tuesday, referring to a 2021 comment that there was a “small risk” of inflation. To those hoping the Fed will …
2022-06-02: Upholding Roe v. Wade Is Supported by Most Americans, WSJ Poll Finds - WSJ Some 57% of respondents said a woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion if she wants it for any reason, the highest share since NORC began asking the question every few years starting in 1977. If …
2022-06-02: Why ‘Do Something’ on Gun Control Won’t Work - WSJ Opinion The high approval cost—now estimated at $2.6 billion per drug—also means rarer diseases receive little research attention. Article cites an FDA approval rate of 12%. So after pharma goes through years of R&D …
2022-06-02: Biden’s Ukraine Rocket Whiplash - WSJ Opinion If the Ukrainians have promised to use the weapons only to defend their territory, why limit the reach of the rockets the U.S. provides? A short range system can hit Russia if its parked close enough to the border. Three months into …
2022-06-02: Biden Has No Plan to Fight Inflation - WSJ Opinion It was smart to make your case in a newspaper whose editorial page is often critical of you. Your challenge in winning over voters, however, is not that you haven’t explained your views and policies, but that you need to …
2022-06-01: Record Gas Prices Hit Americans’ Start to Summer Travel Season - WSJ New York on Wednesday became the latest state to suspend its gas tax, pausing its tax on regular and diesel gas through the end of the year. States use gas taxes for infrastructure. So they’re suspending the …
2022-06-01: Crypto Industry Sees Surge in Lawsuits as Investor Losses Pile Up - WSJ Kenneth Donovan, 27 years old and a plaintiff who began investing in cryptocurrency in 2019, said he bought $335,000 worth of GYEN last year after reading its white paper and learning the New York Department …
2022-06-01: Man Tries Running To Boost Health And Oh No! He Now Has 7 New Injuries! - The Babylon Bee “Well, it looks like my running career is already over,” said Winkley. “Once I regain my ability to walk and run and turn my head both ways, maybe I’ll resume. But …
2022-06-01: Europe Hits Putin Where It Hurts - WSJ Opinion It’s also notable that Europe went ahead with oil sanctions despite quiet lobbying by the U.S. in favor of an alternative tariff proposal. The Biden Administration is worried about the impact of withdrawing Russian crude from the …
2022-05-31: States Help Business Owners Save Big on Federal Taxes With SALT-Cap Workarounds - WSJ The state laws blunt the cap’s effect on owners of closely held businesses such as law firms, hedge funds, manufacturers and car dealerships, while workers earning wages generally can’t take …
2022-05-30: Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation - WSJ Opinion First, the Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to control inflation. The title is his plan to fight inflation. His first bullet point is to say it’s not his responsibility. Last week the nonpartisan Congressional …
2022-05-30: Canada to Ban Purchase, Sale of Handguns in New Gun Control Measures - WSJ Canada will compel owners of banned semiautomatic firearms to sell their weapons to the government, starting at the end of this year. The nation’s criminals are queuing up now. “Other than using …
2022-05-30: Sacred Treasure - Catholic Husband The Sacraments are our fuel to get us through the journey of life. I hope that Benedict carries this treasure with him, wherever he goes. ➕
2022-05-29: A Federal Budget Warning for Joe Manchin - WSJ Opinion Alas, higher spending will more than offset all of the revenue windfall. Recall how Members of Congress claimed their $1 trillion infrastructure bill would be “fully paid for”? CBO now says the bill will cost $678 billion …
2022-05-29: Treasury Releases Pandemic Funding for Small Businesses as They Face New Risks - WSJ The program was approved as part of a $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid package passed by Congress along party lines in March 2021. Since then, unemployment has fallen and the economy surpassed its …
2022-05-28: LeBron Confused By Hockey Players Who Get Back Up After Getting Knocked Down - The Babylon Bee Much to LeBron’s astonishment, he then witnessed a fistfight break out as two players repeatedly punched each other in the teeth. “Foul! Foul!” cried LeBron, tears …
2022-05-27: There’s something magical about a Friday night at the airport in summer.
2022-05-26: Things may be rough out there: gas prices, food prices, inflation, mortgage rates, no baby formula, empty shelves, Ukraine, it’s a long list. But at least the president doesn’t say mean things on Twitter!
2022-05-25: SEC Proposes More Disclosure Requirements for ESG Funds - WSJ “A fund’s name is often one of the most important pieces of information that investors use in selecting a fund,” Mr. Gensler said. Terrifying to think that the SEC believes this to be true, and their solution is to… …
2022-05-25: Last day of school! 👨🏻🏫
2022-05-23: As Biden Zeroes In on Student-Loan Forgiveness Decision, Voter Anxiety Grows - WSJ “They dangled it over our heads to get us to vote for Biden and then did nothing,” said recent UNC graduate Brandon Overbeek, a 23-year-old liberal who estimated he has almost $100,000 in student …
2022-05-23: A Time for Play - Catholic Husband We need a time for play in our schedule, and it needs to be more than just on the weekends. When our children come and ask for our time, we should give it to them, even in small doses. But working to finish by Friday and have an open weekend is …
2022-05-22: I love the smell of hazelnut and coffee.
2022-05-21: Beer and grilled chicken after a hard Saturday of work and projects.
2022-05-20: Women Eagerly Buying Stocks Now That There’s A Big Sale - The Babylon Bee “Now that I own a piece of Target, every time I go shopping there I’m basically paying myself!” Missy explained to reporters.
2022-05-20: People Who Haven’t Had Covid Explain How They’ve Avoided It For 2 Years - The Onion Hank Stanford (Airline Pilot): “I belong to the skies. I am impervious to your pitiful groundling diseases.”
2022-05-20: Here Are Some Fascinating Stories That Were Left Out Of The Bible - The Babylon Bee Since Adam was the first man, he had to invent a ton of stuff but he had no patent office to protect his ideas and they were all stolen: Sad!
2022-05-20: The Electric-Vehicle Unicorn Crash - WSJ Opinion Most EVs today can’t go more than 250 miles on a charge (and less in cold weather). Drivers worry for good reason that they’ll run out of juice on the road. President Biden hopes to alleviate this so-called range anxiety by …
2022-05-19: POLL: 52% Of Nation Now Desire To Ditch Republic, Establish Monarchy With Ultra MAGA King - The Babylon Bee “Our MAGA King is so focused on making fun of people that he doesn’t have time left over to actually do anything, which is perfect because that’s when …
2022-05-18: Michigan Judge Suspends Enforcement of Pre-Roe Abortion Ban - WSJ In her ruling, Judge Gleicher stated that due-process protections in Michigan’s Constitution imply a right to bodily integrity that would be violated by the 1931 law. Irony of irony. In April, Judge Gleicher …
2022-05-17: Son’s new robot.
2022-05-16: Congress to Hold Its First Hearing on UFOs in More Than 50 Years - WSJ Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the public deserved to learn more about what the government knows about these unexplained flying objects that have long been …
2022-05-16: NASA to send naked pictures of humans in hope of ‘attracting aliens’ - New York Post NASA scientists revealed the image in a study that’s part of a project called the “Beacon in the Galaxy” (BITG). The main aim of the BITG project is to send a message to any alien civilizations …
2022-05-16: Renault Sells Russia Business to State-Backed Entity for One Ruble - WSJ Renault didn’t disclose the financial terms of the deal, but people familiar with the deal said the company was selling both assets for the symbolic sum of one ruble each. Russia overpaid.
2022-05-16: A School Choice in Michigan - WSJ Opinion the Detroit Free Press reported last month that school districts have used Covid money on everything from tennis courts to smoothies. My town bought three police cars. I don’t want to think about all of the other ways my tax dollars …
2022-05-16: CBO Sounds a Warning of American Fiscal Ruin - WSJ Opinion The CBO believes that stabilizing debt through tax increases would permanently shrink the economy by discouraging work and crowding out private investments that would improve productivity. Stabilizing debt through lower …
2022-05-16: What Did the Steele Dossier Hoax Cost America? - WSJ Opinion From day one, had reporters focused on the one thing they knew to be indubitably true after talking to Mr. Steele, they would have found the real story: A paid foreign agent was circulating scurrilous tales whose truth …
2022-05-16: Parental Love - Catholic Husband Parenthood is a journey of weighty responsibility. But it’s a journey that is necessarily rooted in the total gift of self, a complete surrender of the parent’s priorities for the child. That is true love. ➕
2022-05-15: In East Hampton, It’s the Superrich Against the Merely Rich - WSJ Ahead of the busy summer season, the town is moving to privatize its airport and impose new restrictions on how often planes can fly in. The rules would limit a plane or helicopter to one takeoff and landing a …
2022-05-15: Arrest of Firebrand Cardinal Highlights Split in Hong Kong’s Catholic Church - WSJ The Vatican expressed concern at the arrest, and its secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said he was saddened by the move but hoped it wouldn’t further complicate the dialogue with China. …
2022-05-15: Crash of TerraUSD Shakes Crypto. ‘There Was a Run on the Bank.’ - WSJ A trader might sell a bitcoin for TerraUSD, then use the TerraUSD to buy ether, another cryptocurrency, without ever touching a dollar or a bank account. Perfect summation of the role, and importance, of …
2022-05-14: Hawaiian Airlines Bets You’ll Want to Island Hop on Electric Seagliders - WSJ They would cruise five to 30 feet above the waves on average, flying on a cushion of air that keeps the plane aloft, known as the “ground effect.” Pretty genius. In theory, you could fly in ground …
2022-05-14: Episode 239: Pigeon Activity Book I haven’t seen Benedict since the mail arrived, so I went looking for him.
2022-05-14: Textron Aviation Delivers FedEx’s First Cessna SkyCourier The aircraft generates power through two wing-mounted Pratt & Whitney PT6A-65SC turboprop engines and utilizes a four-bladed, 110-inch aluminum McCauley Propeller C779. The full feathering, reversible pitch propeller …
2022-05-14: Saved! Trump Reveals He Has Been Stockpiling Baby Formula For Seven Years After Being Warned Of Coming Shortage In A Dream - The Babylon Bee “I have so many silos filled, it’s unbelievable,” said President Trump as he cracked open a fresh can. “Absolutely …
2022-05-14: Matt Damon Makes New Commercial Apologizing For Telling You To Buy Crypto - The Babylon Bee “History is filled with ‘almosts’ – and my crypto commercial was almost a good idea.”
2022-05-14: The Biggest Problem With Flying Cars Is on the Ground - WSJ Joby has also predicted that operating costs for its vehicles will be 86 cents a passenger mile. Dr. Trani thinks the actual figure will be between $3 and $4 a passenger mile. That $4 per mile price is the same as a 9 …
2022-05-13: White House Press Corps Beginning To Suspect Psaki Isn’t Ever Going To Circle Back To Their Questions - The Babylon Bee According to the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, Psaki has promised to “circle back” to journalists’ questions exactly 8,436 times over the …
2022-05-13: When the kids are good during 4.5 hours of errands, including going into a store to try clothes on, Dad buys cookies.
2022-05-13: The best reward for waking up early and walking is my post-walk cooldown. Sitting in a quiet, still house, in the soft light of dawn, drinking coffee and reading The Wall Street Journal. 📰☕️
2022-05-12: Sunset at the office.
2022-05-12: Kavanaugh Eases Tensions With Protesters By Throwing Good, Old-Fashioned Kegger - The Babylon Bee “I can’t believe I wanted to burn this guy’s house down. This man is an absolute legend.”
2022-05-12: Coinbase Says Users’ Crypto Assets Lack Bankruptcy Protections - WSJ “Because custodially held crypto assets may be considered to be the property of a bankruptcy estate, in the event of a bankruptcy, the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be …
2022-05-12: Abortion Puts the Supreme Court Behind an 8-Foot Fence - WSJ Opinion The Supreme Court of the United States—from its first meeting in February 1790 through the Civil War, two world wars and the battle for civil rights—has never been protected by an 8-foot wire fence. It is now. …
2022-05-11: Inflation Stays in the Heights - WSJ Opinion All of this exposes the fantasy that the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer policy mix of blowout spending and easy money is good for working Americans. Modern monetary theory combined with new entitlements were supposed to produce record growth …
2022-05-11: U.S. Inflation Eased in April to 8.3% Annual Rate - WSJ U.S. consumer inflation eased in April to an 8.3% annual rate, taking a slight edge off the steepest run of price increases in four decades as energy prices moderated. A 2% decrease after a 400% increase?! We did it! 🎉🎉🎉
2022-05-10: This is the one year tracking chart on oil futures. The recent volatility is clear, but so is the trajectory. This has been building for months.
2022-05-10: Gas Prices Surge to Another High - WSJ These records don’t account for inflation, however. Inflation-adjusted gas prices are similar to what U.S. drivers saw in the early 1980s, below highs of the 2008 recession. Wonderful! Now I feel much better.
2022-05-10: Biden Stresses Contrast With GOP Economic Agenda as Midterm Challenges Grow - WSJ President Biden argued Tuesday that congressional Republicans would worsen inflation and raise taxes on American families The Ron Burgundy of presidents, Joe Biden will say whatever is on the …
2022-05-09: FBI Sternly Warns Mob At Justice Kavanaugh’s Home To Stay Away From School Board Member’s House Next Door - The Babylon Bee “Sure would hate to have charge one of you nice people with domestic terrorism,” said Agent Raymond Epley to a group of women …
2022-05-09: Turn On Your Brain - Catholic Husband A sad consequence of this indulgence of rage is that it rewards the party that can convince the highest number of people to turn off their brains. Alexander de Tocqueville marveled at the educated electorate that he met in America, and how …
2022-05-08: The Biden Loyalty Machine - WSJ Opinion In June 2021, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley told Congress, “I want to understand white rage.” Then in a January letter to Sen. James Inhofe, Gen. Milley said U.S. service members had spent almost six million man-hours …
2022-05-08: Mother’s Day flowers.
2022-05-08: Episode 238: Mother’s Day I interview their kids to gather some information about their mother. Hard to judge the accuracy of the data.
2022-05-07: Who’s a Threat to Democracy? - WSJ Opinion So which side of the Roe argument is really antidemocratic? The law before the Supreme Court is Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. The abortion-rights movement has failed to persuade the people of Mississippi, and now it …
2022-05-06: Summer evening.
2022-05-06: Episode 237: Uncle Stuart We’ve had a visitor twice in the last two weeks. I talk to the kids to get their impressions.
2022-05-05: UPS: Usually pretty slow. 📦
2022-05-04: Open Enrollment starts in 5 days. Benefits website says guide “coming soon.” Losers.
2022-05-04: Looks so nice, tastes so good. ☕️
2022-05-04: Biden Weighs Forgiving Some Student Debt for Those Who Earn Less Than $125,000 a Year - WSJ Some of the president’s advisers have privately raised concerns about the legality of taking executive action on the issue and the potential backlash from people who have paid off their …
2022-05-04: How to Invest When Both the Stock Market and Bonds Are Falling - WSJ Yet the best strategy in moments of volatility like this one, financial advisers say, is also one of the least satisfying: Do nothing. The article then goes into paragraph after paragraph of helpful “ideas” …
2022-05-03: When Student Loan Debt Paused, These Borrowers Kept Paying - WSJ As of December 2021, 1.2% of borrowers continued paying down loans, said Mark Kantrowitz, a student loan expert. Everyone is sitting around waiting for “forgiveness,” when they just whiffed the biggest loan …
2022-05-02: Student Loan Truth Telling - WSJ Opinion As Mr. Clyburn explained, “So my whole thing is, use your executive authority and let the courts have at it.” This seems to be the Administration’s guiding legal principle. Do what you want until the courts say it’s illegal.
2022-05-02: A Fresh Look - Catholic Husband It’s easy to feel trapped in the same sinful inclinations, day in and day out. Our character flaws pigeon-hole us into the same types of sin. But while we may feel trapped, Easter invites us to take a fresh look. A bit of TLC, a little time …
2022-05-01: Disinformation for Dummies - WSJ Opinion We have to admit that when we first read about it, we thought the news was itself disinformation from the Administration’s political enemies. Surely, no one in this age of polarization and public mistrust of institutions would think it’s …
2022-04-30: Amazing how a small change can make a big impact.
2022-04-29: President Zelensky Insulted By Biden’s Offer Of Only $33 Billion In Weapons When He Gave The Taliban $86 Billion - The Babylon Bee To avoid being embarrassed on the world stage, the Biden Administration has offered to sweeten the weapon offer by also paying off Ukrainian student …
2022-04-28: Biden Says He Is Considering Canceling Some Student-Loan Debt - WSJ The president’s advisers are weighing tailoring any debt forgiveness proposal so that the bulk of the benefits go to lower-to-middle-income borrowers, according to people familiar with the administration’s …
2022-04-28: U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter - WSJ The U.S. economy shrank at a 1.4% annual rate in the first quarter Hey y’all, let’s raise taxes!!!!!!!!!!!
2022-04-28: Tax Increases Won’t Cure Inflation - WSJ Opinion “Coordinating higher government spending with higher taxes so that the rest of us are forced to cut back a little to create room for additional government spending,” as MMT evangelist Stephanie Kelton puts it. She says the trick …
2022-04-27: Government That’s $30 Trillion In Debt Criticizes Elon Musk For How He Spends His Money - The Babylon Bee Experts now believe that with $44 billion, the government could’ve used it to feed about a dozen people and sent a ton of foreign aid to corrupt local warlords …
2022-04-26: Biden Seriously Considering Student-Loan Forgiveness, Officials Say - WSJ loan forgiveness also has the potential to anger voters who have paid off their loans, never took on debt or don’t believe the government should step in to help current borrowers. Perceptive.
2022-04-26: Kamala Harris Tests Positive for Covid-19 - WSJ “She has not been a close contact to the president or first lady due to their respective recent travel schedules,” Ms. Allen said. I bet that’s the reason.
2022-04-26: I hate the new WSJ question/answer articles. It’s sloppy and disjointed. Every article is question and answer. The trick to good writing and journalism is to arrange in a way that makes it flow.
2022-04-26: Dress for the home you want, not the home you have.
2022-04-26: Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Company in $44 Billion Deal - WSJ The stock has been an anemic performer in an era of huge returns for technology companies. Its shares jumped on their first day of trading in 2013 to close at $44.90, within a dollar of where they were …
2022-04-26: Elon Musk, Twitter and Free Speech - WSJ Opinion A former CEO of the social site Reddit called for government regulation “to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.” That line was published in an op-ed at the Washington Post, which is owned by the …
2022-04-26: Fidelity to Allow Retirement Savers to Put Bitcoin in 401(k) Accounts - WSJ the 23,000 companies that use Fidelity to administer their retirement plans will have the option to put bitcoin on the menu. The breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits are going to be a slam dunk. Under the …
2022-04-25: Elon Musk Agrees to Buy Twitter in $44 Billion Deal - WSJ Twitter Inc. on Monday accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company, giving the world’s richest man control over the influential social-media network where he is also among its most powerful users. I’m glad …
2022-04-25: The Window to Enjoy Your Empty Nest Is Shrinking - WSJ “I haven’t been able to do anything that is not work- or kid-centered in really almost 13 years,” says Ms. Frederickson, founder and chief executive of human-resources executive search firm Frederickson Partners in Menlo …
2022-04-25: Struggling AMC Threatens To Clamp Down On Theater Sharing - The Onion “While rare, there have actually been extreme instances of 30, 40, sometimes even 50 people in a single theater watching a movie. But from now on, you can’t just come to an AMC location and bring a bunch of …
2022-04-25: Gas-Engine Bans Drive Landscapers Toward Electric Mowers and Blowers - WSJ Some landscapers and dealers are wary, raising concerns about the added cost and complexity of relying on battery power to manicure yards and trees. I priced a battery-powered edger this season. It was …
2022-04-25: The Paradox of Time - Catholic Husband There’s a balance to managing the many responsibilities that we have in life. In the face of them, we can’t surrender to idleness or overwork. Like our spiritual life, making this balance requires daily effort and some amount of failure. …
2022-04-24: Apple Store Workers Seek to Unionize, Following Efforts at Amazon, Starbucks - WSJ “Apple is a profoundly positive place to work, but we know that the company can better live up to their ideals,” said Derrick Bowles, an employee at the Atlanta store. The arrogance. the company …
2022-04-24: The Biden Administration is putting its weight behind nascent unionization movements in the name of helping workers. It’s ironic because profligate spending, crushing inflation and overly generous student loan subsidies are hurting these very same workers.
2022-04-23: Once every 24-48 months.
2022-04-22: McCarthy Said He Would Advise Trump to Resign After Jan. 6 Riot, Tape Shows - WSJ Thursday’s revelations were seen as potentially testing their relationship and complicating Mr. McCarthy’s efforts to become the next speaker Why? His instincts were exactly right. Trump should’ve …
2022-04-22: Crypto Thieves Get Bolder by the Heist, Stealing Record Amounts - WSJ The Beanstalk protocol used what’s called a DAO, or decentralized autonomous organization. Users can dedicate, or “stake,” funds to the project, which gives them a vote in governance and changes to the …
2022-04-21: Currently reading: The Revolution That Wasn’t by Spencer Jakab 📚
2022-04-21: CNN+ Streaming Service Is Shutting Down a Month After Launching - WSJ CNN+, which was launched on March 29, wasn’t met with enthusiasm in the marketplace and had fewer than 100,000 subscribers, the person said. Better luck next time, Chris Wallace!
2022-04-21: I don’t always enjoy a hot meal, but when I do, it’s because it’s a weird time and my kids are playing, studying, or asleep. 🍳
2022-04-20: If an EV’s battery lasts 15 years, and replacing that battery is cost prohibitive, are we really just making cars extremely disposable?
2022-04-20: Grim Study Reveals All 2 Million Americans Who Flew Yesterday Are Now Dead Of COVID - The Babylon Bee The millions of citizens innocently flying on airplanes, completely safe from the virus because they were wearing masks in a tiny cylinder hurtling through the air with 200 …
2022-04-19: Netflix Loses Subscribers for the First Time in 10 Years, Blames Account Sharing - MacRumors Netflix said that revenue growth has “slowed considerably,” with the company faulting “a large number of households sharing accounts” #StopPutinsPasswordSharing
2022-04-19: Lots of folks upset on the internet about the overturning of mask mandates on airplanes. Someone should tell them about cars.
2022-04-18: Judge Throws Out Federal Mask Mandate for Public Transportation - WSJ U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, a President Donald Trump appointee, said the mandate exceeded the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Someone had to say it.
2022-04-18: Victory - Catholic Husband Now that we’re into the Easter season and our Lenten practices are over, it’s time for an annual reminder about the point of what we just did. Lent, Holy Week, and Easter are only the beginning. They’re the keys that unlock the true freedom of …
2022-04-17: Happy Easter!