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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Sunday

I've never understood minimum wage legislation. If you increase the cost of something, people will buy less of it. I thought that was a rule, along the lines of, "If you spit on someone, that person is less likely to enjoy your company." Sure, there are

Saturday

> It's been an honor Sturgis! pic.twitter.com/0garS7IVzs [http://t.co/0garS7IVzs] > — Jack Scheske (@ScheskeJack) March 14, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ScheskeJack/status/576571097900023808] The basketball season comes to a close. It was a long year: four kids in four different leagues, including a varsity

Friday

BYCU Even when I could drink beer, and greatly enjoyed craft beer, there was something about the "craft beer" movement that annoyed me. I don't know if it was the beer snobbery, or the idea that people were entirely too intense on something (beer drinking) that

Thursday

Kontent from the Kindle As March Madness heats up, it's interesting to remember what group of people used to dominate the sport. From A Renegade History of the United States (perhaps the best book of American history written in the past 15 years): "The first professional basketball

Wednesday

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

Tuesday

Bullets I'm always open to blog recommendations. This one [http://www.serenityfarmcsa.com/] is by a family farm in Kansas that is trying some cool stuff. * * * * * * * This article isn't as interesting as its title implies, but it's not bad: Apocalyptic beliefs may explain why

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Boy, spring slams into us with a bang. From -2 temperatures on Friday to 42 on Saturday. That's a 45-degree swing in 48 hours. * * * * * * * I started up my garden over the weekend, erecting my little portable greenhouse, moving my micro-green trays from the grow

Sunday

My birthday is coming up. My mom gave me a birthday card early, since she'll be out of town. I present it here, virtually unmodified, to spite my three brothers and cause them much envy:

The Week of Coincidences

Three of 'Em I'm declaring this past week the "Week of Coincidences." First, there was the coincidence I mentioned earlier [https://thedailyeudemon.com/36181/] (regarding the Berry quote). And then these two: 1. On February 22nd, I blogged about the apparent virtues of essential oils

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The constant innovation that is America, even in the era of the jackboot socialist-wannabes in Washington: