Weekly Features Post

Abbreviated WFP this week. Eric Scheske has four women and fourteen children (ages twelve years to four months) in his house tonight. They're all relatives of his wife, and therefore he is excused to go to the drinking club, where he'll overlook beautiful Lake Omena while downing 22-ounce pilsners. He's pretty geeked up about it, to say the least.

And no, Eric isn't being a poor host. This is an annual event: the women come to the Michiana sticks to drink with Eric's wife, visit the Shipshewana (Indiana) flea market, swim, and hang out. It's nice for Eric's wife, but the guests know it's not the scene for a man, so even they give him their blessing to leave. In exchange, Eric gives them his blessing to drink all his beer and wine.

TDE is doing very well. The vacation season must be about over. Daily visitors have been in the high 300s/low 400s during the past eight days. We're pleased.

As always, (i) please forward TDE's URL to friends and family, and (ii) take a look at the Kiosk. There's some interesting and corny stuff up there.

Stoic's Porch
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." Seneca

Show Me the Poor

Some 41 percent of our 'poor” own their own homes, with another 75 percent owning automobiles and VCRs and two-thirds having air conditioning and microwave ovens. Virtually all own telephones, refrigerators, and television sets, all of which were once considered luxuries. The average poor person in America has more living space and is more likely to own a car and a dishwasher than the average European. Recalling that we live in a society in which among the poor obesity is a greater problem than malnourishment further helps to put the alleged poverty problem in the U.S. into perspective.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., The Church and the Market, p. 152.

The Last Word
Supputation: the act of calculating or computing. "The supputation of Eric's tab tonight could be tough."