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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

Random Quotes "The mind has functions that the brain hardly knows." John Lukacs ******* "While it is easier to wrestle with a weak body than with a strong one, it is more difficult to wrestle with a weak mind than with a strong one." John Lukacs ******* "

Great List

Well, a pretty good list. A few of the items didn't make much sense to me, a self-proclaimed Tolkien expert: > 10 Strange 'Lord Of The Rings' Facts That The Films Leave Out - Listverse http://t.co/hveZuFUZlY > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 9,

Monday

Miscellany I've been to plenty of flea markets. I never appreciated that I was walking in a den of libertarianism. This 2012 book sounds pretty interesting: Flea Market Jesus [http://wipfandstock.com/flea-market-jesus.html]. "Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about alienation, biblical

Interesting

H.I.F. New Pope interview [http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/new-interview-pope-francis-says-resistance-comes-open-good-sign] . It's sure to hit the Catholic media waves hard and probably the MSM as well. Excerpt: > Some so-called "conservative" sectors charged that Francis had sacked Cardinal Raymond Burke, former head of the Vatican&

Sunday

A Random Passage Worth pondering: "Henry Maine noted [that] the history of Western civilization and Western liberty has been the shift from status to contract–from being locked into positions based on who you were at birth, to being able to live, work, do what you wish, deal with

Saturday

A Random Passage "The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.” H.L. Mencken. But of course. The cynic doesn't believe he has any business

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Slight hangover after office party, but for some reason, this is keeping up my spirits:

Friday

Kingsley Amis shares a little banal insight into the artistic life: "[L]et me just observe in passing that the reason why so many professional artists drink a lot is not necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is simply that they can afford to,

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I've gotten some email about yesterday's post. Let me clarify: Based on information from the MSM (which is scanty and undoubtedly incorrect and misleading), I have no sympathies for the position of the Ferguson protesters (to the extent they're protesting the Michael Brown shooting)

Thursday

I tried Mike Duncan's new podcast, "Revolutions [http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/]," but I had a hard time "getting into" them. I think he was simply jamming too many facts and names into them, but he's doing a great job with the current