Eric Scheske
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-
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
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-
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,
Bill Eerdman, RIP (11/21/2020)
I just learned that Bill Eerdman, long-time president of Wm. B. Eerdman's Publishing Co. in Grand Rapids, passed away a few days ago. Mr. Eerdman was the son of the publishing company's founder.
He took theology and publishing very seriously:
Once, at the last minute,
Do You Rely on Your Doctor? (11/21/2020)
There's an old saying: "The only thing more foolish than listening to your
doctor is not listening to your doctor."
Nassim Taleb says those things can be reconciled by taking responsibility for
your own health while you're well and not listening to the doctor
Don't Believe the Google Antitrust Suit
I have little doubt the search engine behemoth deserves to go down, but this
probably ain't what it seems
"Random Books Under Glass," by E. Studs MulliganSo, Google gets sued for antitrust violations
[https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/10/20/google-justice-department-antitrust-
Negativity Bias Identified Long Before It was Identified (11/18/2020)
The minds of men always dwell more on bad luck. They accept ordinary prosperity as a matter of course. Misfortunes arrest their attention and remain in their memory.
William Graham Sumner, Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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