Eric Scheske

Whew, the metaphysical hangover. We had Jack's grad party last night. Whatta whirl . . . last night and this morning. The thing I hate most about parties is that I always, without fail, wake up groggy and thinking about all the guests I didn't even say "hi&

BYCU So I'm talking with my oldest son, Alex, on my laptop. It's evening and he's drinking from a big, funky-looking can. I ask him what it is, and he says it's something his local beer seller recommended: Stiegl breakfast beer.

It looks like The University Bookman [http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/about/] is now offered on Kindle . . . or at least two of them. $2.99 apiece. I just bought the Edmund Burke issue.

Nock Notions Albert Jay Nock on the Great Fiction upon which The Washington Party relies for its increasingly-aggressive power grabs against society: "Republicanism permits the individual to persuade himself that the State is his creation, that State action is his action, that when it expresses itself it expresses

Chesterton Short(s) A GKC sighting of sorts, through Terry Teachout, editor of the Second Mencken Chrestomathy, writing about Chesterton's contemporary (and occasional critic) H.L. Mencken: "He is the apostle of common sense." Was this an intentional parallel to GKC? I haven't the

Top Ten List: You might have a book obsession if: 10. You'll never be able to finish all the books you've started. 9. You're kinda surprised there's not a medical term to describe a disordered erotic attraction to books. 8. You don&

Tuesday Trifles Good weekend here. I got all my garden stuff in, except those items that I am purposefully holding back to produce a staggered harvest. * * * * * * * I had a rough time with tomatoes and sweet peppers this year. Only 30 of my sweet peppers germinated and my tomato seedlings don&

From Reddit's Today I Learned: "TIL that in 2008 Detroit police used SWAT tactics to raid a party at an art museum. Guns drawn, they forced everyone to the floor before searching every attendee and confiscating over 40 vehicles... all because the museum didn't have

http://i.imgur.com/08tLQUH.jpg The market is kinda like nature. You can keep beating it down, but unless you ruthlessly stomp it out like Lenin and Stalin did, it'll keep pushing forward, just like prairie land is overtaking once-concretized Detroit.