Okay, we’ve all had an ample chance to interest Jeff’s audience in our offerings at our own abodes.  Now, how about sharing some airtime with someone from your blogroll?  Let’s have one or two websites that might be of interest to a significant number of people, that everyone here hasn’t already heard of.  It’s always great to learn of a good new site, and maybe one of your old faves

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don’t like it much.  They have no gratitude. … But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for

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Freddy Fender, to whom we say RIP at age 69.

Fascinating program on NPR’s ”Studio 360” on the sense of scents.  My wife favors Herrera 212.  What are some of your thoughts about odors and perfumes? Is there such a thing as a conservative aesthetic?  Programs like this remind me of how far conservative media still has to go. I’m a big fan of beers.  Pilsner Urquell, for example, is quintessentially what a pilsner should be, and has as much

Do you like gladiator movies?  What are you wearing? List your favorite gladiator movies and why they’re great.

uBreakup: Remote dumping service.

From page 272: . . . Tony Lake’s report so worried me, in fact, that I knew we could no longer use half measures in dealing with the North Koreans.  It was time to get tough.  I called Warren Christopher in.  I remember it distinctly, because I usually didn’t like to deal with Warren face to face—he left a smell of mothballs behind him wherever he went.  Warren came in,

Note: I’m wont to review some of my past writings. The following is from my 9/11 post of this year; however, with the upcoming election and the recent discussions on war and why/how/should we fight, I want to share my post here. nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ~~Omar Khayyam Before

…so much to Edward H for the J.A. Henckels knives.  At long last, our feasts of animal flesh will be sliced, not torn.  Just like the Angus beef cows would have wanted it.