Eric Scheske
A Sports Cliché that Can Improve Your Daily Life
"Take what the defense gives you."
Our local high school basketball coach was working with his talented but very young (8?) son. The father guarded his son. The son made the wrong move and turned the ball over.
His father said, "Take what the defense gives you.
Read on the Run
For years, I've wanted to start the "On-the-Run Reader." It would be a Reader's Digest-type publication, but weightier and lighter. The subject matter would be more serious than RD, but the length of the "articles" (more like blurbs, quotes, summaries, and essays)
The Most Cashless Country on Earth Says We Shouldn't Go Cashless
Nick Corbishley at Naked Capitalism
Five Things You Didn't Know About Your Community
There’s a localism movement afoot.
The Saturday after Black Friday is now recognized as “Small Business Saturday,” an effort to remind people that it’s important to support their local stores. There has been a corresponding harsh backlash against Amazon and its disturbing gains on the back of COVID.
Google and the Hemispheres
The Industrial Revolution had been churning for a hundred years. Results were impressive. Standards of living were climbing. Sure, urban slums were miserable, but many historians believe they beat the squalor in rural villages.
But industrialization was messy and not just from a pollution standpoint. Labor itself was messy. There
Should You Try Writing Poetry?
Glenn Arbery at The Imaginative Conservative
The RCIA Haunting
Jayme Clune at National Catholic Register
Preserving Affirmative Action at All Costs, including Honesty
James Breslo at Epoch Times
The Minotaur: Five Short Lessons About the Modern State
Revisiting de Jouvenel's 1945 classic, On Power
“the spirit of domination never slumbers”
Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 to an aristocratic family that embraced the “progressive” mores of the day. His parents divorced. His father married the famous novelist Colette in 1912. In 1920, de Jouvenel