Eric Scheske

Crime and Politics Steve Sailer is always worth reading. In his most-recent piece, he recounts the rise, fall, and rise of crime in New York City . . . pointing out that it consistently rises with liberal mayors: > During New York's 1946”“58 Yogi Berra Golden Age, the city never

Miscellaneous Rambling Back to the grind. Ten days in northern Michigan. I'll try to write about it later. From last week's comments box: "YouTube has great interviews with Walter Hooper, personal secretary to Lewis." I'll have to check it out. I believe

> "A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero pic.twitter.com/hhg8HTrGaC [https://t.co/hhg8HTrGaC] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) July 30, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/759398846170562560]

Returning from vacation today. Nine days in Alpena, Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula. Splendid trip. If you get up there, I highly recommend Munising and its Falling Rock Cafe. No drinking, just nice fun. Live band playing classic country tunes, good sandwiches, board games, books for sale, lattes. And a

While on vacation this week: > Tess and I had a viciously tight game of Trouble pic.twitter.com/p1EDvWKC20 [https://t.co/p1EDvWKC20] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) July 24, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/757326692679577600]

St. Johnny Appleseed: "[T]here is a Russian saying that if a man plants 3 trees in his life he will never go to hell." Dorothy Day. Of course, according to The Smithsonian [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/real-johnny-appleseed-brought-applesand-booze-american-frontier-180953263/?no-ist] , Johnny wasn't a saint. He was

"Kirk first encountered the Shroud [of Turin] while offhandedly visiting the Cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Torino, Italy, in 1957 when he attended a Mont Pelerin Society conference. Here, he claimed, he encountered the face of God. 'The face was wondrously distinct, almost accurate as a plaster

Miscellaneous Rambling That Kirk quote yesterday got me thinking about George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. It's a beautiful little book, one that tugs at every wannabe nerd who can't be that nerd because the affairs of the world keep him strapped

My brother-in-law got this handbill while in Chicago last weekend: "The Most Reluctant Convert [https://fpatheatre.com/production/the-most-reluctant-convert/]." It's showing in Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Tulsa (Tulsa?). If I were going to Chicago, I'd definitely check it out. Also intriguing: C.S.

BYCU Interesting introduction to absinthe: "THE NOTORIOUS ABSINTHE, which scandalized late 19th-century Europe, was embraced by the literary and artistic café society of the mid-1800s. Purportedly addictive, it was the drink of choice for artists, writers, and poets, most notably Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, Rimbaud, and Verlaine.