Eric Scheske

Happy Labor Day. Consistent with TDE tradition, light blogging today. Just this: > When is it not okay to answer your cellphone? http://t.co/lIJU5er5hw pic.twitter.com/rLSCchY0hx [http://t.co/rLSCchY0hx] > — Forbes (@Forbes) August 29, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Forbes/status/637772219238715392] I find it disturbing

Philosophy teaches us how we ought to live. And with a little effort, it brings us more money, too. The Earning Power of Philosophy Majors [http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/09/philosophy-majors-out-earn-other-humanities/403555/] .

This is a remarkable story [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3222526/Streams-whiskey-Lightning-destroys-Jim-Beam-factory-Kentucky-releasing-800-000-gallons-bourbon-lake-catches-fire-struck-Firenado.html] . First, it's a river of fire made from bourbon. Even more amazing, the writer uses the word inflammable, which is the correct version of flammable, which, according to E.B. White, should only be

Brownson had insight at the very first stages of the feminist movement. Although he was initially favorable to the incipient feminist movement and was attracted to its earliest proponent, the pretty and sex-loving Fanny (Frances) Wright, he quickly saw that feminism wasn't just about equal rights, but also

After recounting all those Jewish jokes and the history of Jewish humor in the United States, Epstein offers this, I think, poignant observation: "[A' epigraph from the English comic novelist Howard Jacobson: 'This is not the place to examine why I, a Jew, feel more threatened by

Miscellaneous Rambling I have more to ramble about and yesterday's blog post was growing too long, so it has spilled over to Tuesday. * * * * * * * The talk yesterday about seers and mystics reminded me a book I read about ten years ago: The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan. I really

Miscellaneous Rambling So I'm listening to a recent Open Line Wednesday with Mitch Pacwa yesterday while gardening. A caller asked about Charlie Johnston. Johnston is a supposed seer who supposedly communicates with (supposed-heavenly) angels, and he says massive economic and military disruptions are coming soon [http://www.mysticsofthechurch.

From the Notebooks Common, overlapping, theme: "The Importance of Doing Nothing [http://www.forbes.com/sites/insead/2014/07/01/the-importance-of-doing-nothing/] " (Forbes), provides empirical evidence for the anecdotal evidence Albert Jay Nock laid out in "Snoring as a Fine Art," which brushed up against the philosophy

Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal has written possibly the most important op-ed of the election season. It's a must-read. America is So in Play [http://www.wsj.com/articles/america-is-so-in-play-1440715262]. I read it last night and proceeded to dream about it (literally). America is fed up