Hear ye, hear ye, it is time for the weekly roundup of blog posts. It is Saturday morning and all is well.
It’s not as morbid as it seems, Moni Smith says, to remember that we’re all going to die. Remembering it frequently can really help us feel less stressed out by our lives today, and make better choices. Read No one here gets out alive
Aaron Renn on why Columbus, Ohio, has it going on in ways that similarly sized Midwestern cities such as Indianapolis or Kansas City or Minneapolis can only dream of. Read Columbus, Ohio’s Structural Advantages
By the way: the photo in this post is from inside a coffee shop in the Short North in Columbus.
Considering the upcoming (and probably bumpy) confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Jim Cavanaugh reminds us that bumpy confirmations are nothing new. The most famous was certainly Robert Bork’s, but he reminds us of another one we may have forgotten, that of William Harvey, a former Dean of the School of Law at Indiana University in Indianapolis. Read William F. Harvey – The Original Borking?
Camera reviews and experience reports:
- Canon A35 Datelux (Peggy Anne)
See my review of the similar A35F here - Voigtländer Superb (SilverFox)
- Miranda Sensorex (dspaedt)
- Werra 2B/Werramat (Peggy Anne)
- Wirgin Edixa 2MTL (John Margetts)