Eric Scheske

Maris and Money The MLB is looking to a 100-game season, using a three-division, 10-team plan in which teams play only within their division [https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/04/28/mlb-optimistic-about-starting-season-late-june/3039275001/] . Crazy times call for crazy solutions, but this doesn't strike

Regionalism Redux It might be a good time to revisit Grant Wood's “Revolt Against the City" [https://medium.com/art-story/grant-wood-and-his-revolt-against-the-city-259968f55fb2] (PDF can be found here [http://interarts.org/CW%20Wood%20Essay%20Revolt.pdf]). The American Gothic artist wrote the essay in 1935, in the throes of

Humble Men Socrates was an ugly, poor man with no pretensions. In the eyes of the world, he was a misfit and fool, a constant butt of jokes around sophisticated Athens, but he didn't mind. He was very humble, thinking little of himself and caring little for his

New Episode Released 1400s, Florence Banking, Heroes, States Rights [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/4/26/episode-73-1400s-florence-banking-heroes-states-rights] We are at the 1400s. We are going to take this segment all the way to 1491. It is the penultimate segment of this historical survey. The Renaissance is in full swing.

Top Gin Dang! I saw this article, The 8 Best Bottles Of Gin You Can Buy At Any Price Point [https://www.delish.com/entertaining/g32176644/best-gin-brands/], glanced at the picture and thought, "Wow, I've owned and drank every one of those bottles at least once."

The Noun Murderers Are medical personnel heroes? When our culture went gaga over the first responders (gender-neutral term . . . can't use "firemen") after 9/11, I went gaga too. Actually, I would start to cry a bit, thinking of all those young men charging up the towers,

I did my first podcast interview at TWE [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-blog-1/2020/4/22/bonus-episode]. Both technology-wise and interview-skill-wise, I have a ways to go, but thanks to Joe Condit for letting me experiment on him and Catholic Speakers Organization [https://catholicspeakers.com/inspireword]. Joe and I threw

Cutting Edge, Me I might just now be watching the first episode of Tiger King. I didn't know who Ed Sheeran was until I watched (the enjoyable) movie Yesterday. I don't even recognize most of the names on the Billboard Hot 100 (when did it stop

Strafing the Right Matthew Scully has made major inroads. Years ago (15, I'm guessing) he wrote a compelling piece for The American Conservative about the evils of factory farming. It convinced me. But TAC has always been an outlier of sorts. It has never tried to be conservative,

Inflationary COVID Well, dang. I thought we had peaked late last week, based on good numbers over the weekend. Not true. We apparently set a new death high yesterday [https://news.trust.org/item/20200414214724-hfp57]. Of course, if a plane crashed and some of the passengers had COVID, they'