Eric Scheske

From the Gardening Journals Gardener extraordinaire, Carol Deppe, channels Nassim Taleb and Albert Jay Nock in this passage about gardening: > As part of our bias toward seeing stories, we tend to interpret sequences of events in terms of causation. We see cause where there is only correlation. I think

H.I.F. I remember hearing about five years ago that governments would try to ban paper money so they could better control the subjects. I thought, "Yeah, right. You conspiracy nuts will believe anything. if that actually happens, I'll buy into all the conspiracy theories."

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full

“[H]ypermobility . . . is the great undiagnosed sickness of our age.” p. 89. “Today we know Mother Jones primarily as the name of a magazine for consumerist liberals whose idea of a radical act is selling their R.J. Reynolds stock and buying Starbucks. The real Mother Jones–Irish-born Mary Harris

Miscellaneous Rambling Sanders' free tuition program? It's a way to funnel even more money to the universities, of course, which overwhelmingly support the Democratic Party. That, I trust, everyone knows. But did you know it's also a way to funnel money into pensions? American Thinker

"[Justice Ruth] Ginsburg once said that Scalia was 'an absolutely charming man, and he can make even the most sober judge laugh.' She said that she urged her friend to tone down his dissenting opinions 'because he'll be more effective if he is not

Back in my teenage and young adult years, I was an avid National Review fan . . . and loved the Misanthrope column by Florence King. I didn't know she was kind of a lesbian. "She called herself, at least once, a conservative lesbian feminist, and she was not to

These are the days of politics (the primaries) and religion (Lent). So when I ran back across this great quote, I decided to past it here: “The Virgin and St. Thomas are my vehicles of anarchism. Nobody knows enough to see what they mean, so the Judges will probably not

Miscellaneous Rambling: Day Two Long-time TDE readers know that my weekly Miscellaneous Rambling column sometimes runs to two days. This week is one of those weeks. * * * * * * * Is that alright? Do people like the Miscellaneous Rambling column? It's probably my longest-running feature, but I've never gotten any