Eric Scheske

Video Killed the Radio StarWokeness Killed the NBA Star Slate magazine struggles with the possibility that maybe, just maybe, the NBA's wokeness is contributing to its abysmal ratings. [https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/nba-tv-ratings-china-ethan-strauss-athletic.html] Well, yeah. I can point to a ton of anecdotal evidence that

> A toast to the irish [https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/ig900a/a_toast_to_the_irish/] from r/HistoryMemes [http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes]

It's Gettin' Hot in Here, so Take Off All Your Overalls I haven't had many garden posts. Part of the reason: it's been too hot. As I've gotten older, my heat tolerance has declined noticeably. In fact, I think it'

Fire Tornadoes Hit CA; Digital Tornado Hits TDE WAIT! Don't leave. Your browser didn't malfunction, you didn't click wrong, your eyes aren't deceiving you. You are at The Daily Eudemon. But reformatted. After 16 years. Back in 2004, I paid to have

The Beer Site The number one beer website in the world is The Beer Advocate [https://www.beeradvocate.com/]. That, anyway, according to The Beer Now Conference [https://beernow.org/2014/01/the-20-most-influential-beer-websites-in-the-world/] .. Actually, it ranks The Beer Advocate second, but Heineken is number one, so I don't

Hesychasm My latest at Medium: How I Moved Beyond Stoicism: The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level [https://medium.com/the-weekly-eudemon/how-i-moved-beyond-stoicism-41f824a0b548] . Excerpt: I've long been a fan of the Stoics. Epictetus especially, but Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the works of Seneca have

Cronies and Wolves and Higher Education The current Econtalk episode is pretty good [https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-the-future-of-higher-education/]. They talk about the future of higher education, in light of the fact that it appears that colleges can, indeed, work online. At least, that's what they now claim, in

Twitter Kills Bee! Google Raises ACT Scores! Taibbi Raises Glass and Kills DNC! I woke up to news that Twitter had suspended the Babylon Bee. It was going to be the final straw for any hope that the Big Tech will play halfway fair in the coming months. The Babylon

Pepsi Riots, the Hot Hand, and 33 Pieces of Advice Another of my emerging favorites at Medium talks about the great Pepsi Filipino riots of the early 1990s [https://medium.com/better-marketing/pepsis-40-billion-typo-caused-deadly-riots-3d671295d1bd] . Unbelievable story. It's unbelievable because (i) it happened, and (ii) I'd never heard

> Objectively the best moment in Lewis' Space Trilogy is in the third book were the guy's PhD advisor is literally working for Satan. https://t.co/vbFVJJmckr > — The Distributist (@DataDistribute) August 13, 2020 [https://twitter.com/DataDistribute/status/1293933373883203584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Related: The