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Eric Scheske

Sunday

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

Saturday

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

Get Your Loan On

My eldest son, Alex, is now a mortgage banker with Quicken Loans. If you know of someone looking to buy a house and they want to use a nice young Catholic man to help with the financing, try Alex. Even if you're just mildly interested and merely want

Friday

BYCU That's the good thing about booze: You drink when you're happy and you drink when you're sad. You drink when you have plenty of money, you drink when you don't have enough money to do anything else. And you drink when

Thursday

Epstein on jokes about Jewish wives: "Jewish wives have been the target of enough jokes to warrant establishing a special branch of the Anti-Defamation League. What does a Jewish wife make for dinner? Answer: Reservations. 'A thief stole my wife's purse with all her credit

Wednesday

Excuse the colorful language, but this cracked me up:

Tuesday

Romanticable Me Friday evening, I sat on the front porch, enjoying a nice late summer evening and some drinks. I was streaming Pandora from my iPhone into my (splendid) bluetooth Sony wireless speaker [http://amzn.to/1WLsJ9a]. The channel: 70s Lite Rock Radio. I was really digging it, which was

Kinda funny . . . very clever

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling We'll see what the market does today. I wonder: How much of this "crash" is due simply to people pulling money out of the market to pay college tuition? I haven't seen that explanation anywhere, but it seems it would be a

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Ben Stein asks four questions [http://spectator.org/articles/63835/where-there%E2%80%99s-smoke]: I had an e-mail from my smartest friend, P. He asked three questions, which I pass on to you, dearly beloved readers: “1.) We are advised not to judge ALL Muslims by the