3.16.2019

Spring is right around the corner. So is The Future.

Burger King debuts $5-a-month coffee subscription service


https://nyp.st/2F5j9ew

Will we ever see a Spam subscription?

How can you not like a guy named Ha Ha?*

Ha Ha Clinton-Dix was drawn to the Bears by friend Eddie Jackson — and the chance to prove himself on a 'special defense' - Chicago Tribune


http://bit.ly/2TE0ArO

*Especially if you happen to be a Bears fan.

3.13.2019

Formerly

"The Templars" (fair warning) is a slog

Now the most recent entry on our reading list, Barbara Frale's "The Templars: The Secret History Revealed" is a hard-core history, full of long-ago dates and unfamiliar names and the strange goings-on of the Middle Ages, and not an easy read. So if you decide to give it a try, don't say you weren't warned.

That said, it's full of fascinating stuff about military history, literary history, the history of diplomacy and the Catholic church (or churches), the Crusades—and, of course, the Templars—around the turn of the 1st Millennium. So there's that.

If you can find it in your local library and read even a little bit of it you're unlikely to be disappointed or wanting your money back.

Next time, hopefully, something a little more fun.

Oops

Plane turns around after mom realizes she left baby at airport


"OK, head back to the gate," one of the air traffic controllers said during the exchange. "This is totally a new one for us."