Eric Scheske

Kontent from the Kindle "Among the worst aspects of the collapse of traditional conservatism is that my children will grow up in a world in which vulgar and belligerent nationalism will be presented to them as the alternative to leftism." Thomas Woods. "Economic historians have determined that

I finally made it back to Detroit's Greektown. It was my nephew's bachelor party. I picked up my son in Ann Arbor then walked around downtown Detroit for awhile (he was still trying to clear his head from the party his house threw the night before

Good, clean short jokes: "I have the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the Toronto zoo." "I told my girlfriend she drew her eyebrows too high. She seemed surprised." "A termite walks into the bar and asks, 'Is the bar tender

I'll do some of this as the weather turns nicer. Few things finer than sitting on the front porch with a drink. > The Zen of Drinking Alone. Modern Drunkard Magazine - http://t.co/b1C9s5F1x9 > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) March 8, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/

One of the most interesting things I read this week: > From Reddit: TIL a $1.99 bottle of wine, Two Buck Chuck, beat 2300 other wines to win the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) March 15, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/577085165052301312]

* Blackberry and Samsung are working together on a new project to build a high-security tablet. The way it works is this: It says “Blackberry” on the back and nobody wants to steal it.

> Black Like Kerouac | The American Conservative http://t.co/1UPBylFohk via @amconmag [https://twitter.com/amconmag] > — David Scott (@DScottLA) March 14, 2015 [https://twitter.com/DScottLA/status/576633158306635776]

It would seem that a surge in William Graham Sumner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Graham_Sumner#The_Forgotten_Man] (1840-1910) might do this country a lot of good: "Sumner celebrated “the forgotten man,” the independent middle-class man who falls between the cracks of the plutocrats on the

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

"TIL that on Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day" in honor of the anniversary of the day he died. To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption on this day, which is why excessive drinking has