Eric Scheske

> Breaking News @AOC [https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] claims she found a way to end world hunger pic.twitter.com/57alYs6pjc [https://t.co/57alYs6pjc] > — Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) March 25, 2019 [https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1110324797806919680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Midweek Rambling The New York Times opens up a promising op-ed feature: religious philosophy wars. It runs a wholly one-sided op-ed that ridicules the idea of a God that philosophy can reason to [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/opinion/-philosophy-god-omniscience.html]. I assume the Grey Hag will give

Miscellaneous Rambling Man, for some reason, that Trump dance video really cracked me up yesterday. I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but I think I watched it ten times. Matt Taibbi, far from a conservative the last I checked, breaks down the farce that was RussiaGate. It&

> Okay who did this 🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/bYe5jI8S2h [https://t.co/bYe5jI8S2h] > — Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) March 24, 2019 [https://twitter.com/Cliff_Sims/status/1109962032995069952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Miscellaneous Rambling New TWE episode posted this weekend: Episode 27: Postmodernism and a Soviet Philosopher, Postmodernism and Brahman, Stylites [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/3/21/c7eipocxiqh83fts4by4mgw0pmq5ik] . Click the link to listen, or go to Stitcher, iTunes, etc. It's also posted below in a Youtube format. >

> "While World War II may have been necessary, it was not good. It was an epic tragedy from which Americans can learn much with relevance to the present day. But learning assumes a willingness to see beyond myths. Charles Beard shows us where to begin." https://t.

Brews You Can Use March isn't good for losing weight. The weather isn't warm enough to get a lot of movement outside, birthdays, and now March Madness. Tonight (actually, this afternoon) calls for my third day of drinking this week. I'll be at a

From the Notebooks Brownson said, on a speaking tour on “The Church and the Republic” that every society is exposed to two opposite dangers: absolutism of the state and absolutism of the individual. In order to mediate between the two dangers, and give each, the state and the individual, their

> “People who pride themselves on having ideas often fail to understand that only after ideas have been filtered through real-world experience do we know whether they are right or wrong. Most turn out to be wrong.” > — Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) March 17, 2019 [https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/1107397245987684358?

More Miscellaneous Rambling The Tournament neareth. My 28th Annual NCAA Basketball Tournament Auction is tonight. I ought to post a commemorative BYCU, but the circumstances don't permit. Humorous story of the month: Their Street Is Famous on Instagram, and They Can't Take It Anymore [https://www.