Eric Scheske

I returned from Miami Beach today. It was bachelor party weekend for my future son-in-law. Here I am, crashed yesterday at the remarkable Wynwood Walls Urban Graffiti art exhibit in Miami [http://www.thewynwoodwalls.com/]. Regular blogging resumes tomorrow. You can find more Tweeted pics at The Weekly Eudemon Twitter

> Remembering The Road to Serfdom (essay by Bradley J. Birzer) https://t.co/SIbpol4R2z > — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) February 19, 2019 [https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/1097971637704642560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Yikes, this sounds awful: > Arriving fingers crossed tomorrow (8.2.19) New Lemon Grass Gin #excited [https://twitter.com/hashtag/excited?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #free [https://twitter.com/hashtag/free?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #tasting [https://twitter.com/hashtag/tasting?src=hash&

From the Notebooks Every form of state action has the effect of reducing human cooperation. If the state will take care of it, why meet my buddy at the end of the street to take of that flooding problem that's hurting our lawns? If the state will take

Miscellaneous Rambling Shew. Crazy days. Lots going on . . . on all fronts. I'm also sensing spring in the air. Marie says I'm hopelessly optimistic when it comes to spring, but I can sense it. I tell you, I can sense it. A man died after catching fire

It's not the urbane humor I fancy myself bringing to TDE, but it cracked me up: > Home Depot 'bomb threat' turns out to be man warning of 'blowing up' bathroom https://t.co/FMRe4tsOf4 via @local4news [https://twitter.com/Local4News?ref_src=twsrc%

Miscellaneous Rambling The new podcast is up: Episode 22: History of the Old Testament in 8 Minutes, Gin and Tonics, Three Ho-Hum Derrida Conclusions [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/2/16/episode-22-history-of-the-old-testament-in-8-minutes-gin-and-tonics-three-ho-hum-deconstructionist-conclusions] . Show Notes: The Old Testament. I summarize the OT in about eight minutes. The segment is closer

> Ocasio-Cortez Declares Victory Over The Modern-Day Equivalent Of Slavery: Jobs https://t.co/xZQBTG0nvP pic.twitter.com/KsW5d0Ttpp [https://t.co/KsW5d0Ttpp] > — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 15, 2019 [https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1096465412277952512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Yup, they have a point: > You might be cool, but you'll never be Frank-Sinatra-stepping-out-of-a-helicopter-with-a-cocktail-cool. #goals [https://twitter.com/hashtag/goals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/LseXgbdIEn [https://t.co/LseXgbdIEn] > — Drunken History (@DrunkenHistory) February 10, 2019 [https://twitter.com/DrunkenHistory/status/

Miscellaneous Rambling The nineteenth-century glory of Catholicism rises to sainthood: Pope Francis approves canonization of John Henry Newman [https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-approves-canonization-of-john-henry-newman-34200] . I read that article yesterday, shortly after reading a series of Drudge splash headlines about the new expose book on homosexuality in the Vatican: Explosive new