Eric Scheske
I Don't Love the Nightlife and I Don't Got to Boogie (Published in 2020)
But I miss the bars: An Ode During COVID
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn." Samuel Johnson
Like Samuel Johnson and Alicia Bridges (see title), I like a good bar.
A Festivus for the Rest of Us
Yeah, I know: Festivus is a fake holiday created by Seinfeld in 1997, when Mr.
Costanza told Kramer about the family holiday he created: Festivus.
It was, Mr. Costanza explained, a “festivus for the rest of us.”
It has since become a real “thing,”
[https://time.com/4617553/festivus-holiday-origins-seinfeld/] with
Ten Catholic Drinking Costumes Guaranteed to Impress
Halloween lands on the weekend! Far out. If you have costume parties to attend,
and you want to embrace your Catholicism, and you want to embrace the (drinking)
weekend, I have ten great ideas.
The Liberated Nun, circa 1518
This one might be hard to set up with your crowd,
The Downfall of Cecil Rhodes (11/26/2020)
Stefan Kanfer, in his book on the De Beers diamond cartel, gives Chesterton the
last word on Cecil Rhodes, who instead of promoting Western values "illustrated
almost every quality essential to the Sultan, from the love of diamonds to the
scorn of women."
The irony was, as Kanfer
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The Architecture of Speed
Thoughts build your everyday existence. Technology affects your thoughts. The implications? Ask Marshall McLuhan.
Sometimes I’m Gothic. Other times, Tudor-ish. In the morning I might be Romanesque, but by the afternoon I’m Bauhaus.
The architecture of my mind changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, sometimes minute-to-minute. I generally want to live
Dalrymple Explores the Exploding Underclass (11/22/2020)
Everything--from the permissive culture, to mass immigration, to COVID--coalescing at once
"I have encountered many alcoholic Sikhs, for example, who were among the most refractory with regard to abstinence of all my patients; I have encountered almost every kind of social pathology among Muslims, from incest to drug addiction.
The Left's Nightmare
The feel-good story of the day: Â The Biden campaign has been counting on Black
and Latino voters to vote like they normally do, but recent numbers indicate
that may not happen this time around.
[https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-black-and-latino-voters-deliver-another-trump-miracle-2020-numbers-suggest-it-could]
It's about time.
The Mexicans
The Left
A Few Interesting Red-Blue Facts (11/21/20)
> In 1992, only 38 percent of American voters lived in a “landslide county,” a
county that one party wins by at least twenty points. In 2016, that number hit a
record 60 percent. Religion increasingly divides us: States with the lowest
church attendance vote Democratic; those with the highest,