Eric Scheske

Nassim Taleb came up with, then Tweeted, a set of New Year's resolutions [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/550273244289585152]. As with most of us his statemednts, they're enigmatic and meant to make you think. They've also spawned a lot of retweets and comments, especially

H.I.F: Interesting Mall brawls breaking out across America. ABC News segment [http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/malls-high-alert-large-fights-break-country-27915285] . I can't tell whether they're trying to lay the blame on social media or on the trash demographic that&

Out of It On Wednesday night, we had Ryan Seacrest's Rockin' New Year's Eve on the TV with the sound off, while the kids played games and I grogged off my hangover. At midnight, we turned up the volume and counted down, then we turned

Happy New Years. No blogging today, but I pass along this recommended Benedict Groeschel audio: "Conversion, the Real New Year's Resolution [https://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/dload1.asp?audiofile=snl_01012006.mp3&source=file_index.asp&seriesID=7054&T1=] ." I've

It'll be curious to see how this plays out on New Years Eve. I might have to sober up a bit before the ball drops: > [T]hose tasked to protect and to serve the Big Apple, appear to have decided to turn their back on their job

H.I.F: Frustrating Why do we believe anything from anyone in the upper echelons anymore? "First it was, with 'absolute certainly', North Korea. Then, out of the blue, an even more ridiculous theory emerged about the origin of the Sony hackers: Russia. Now, we finally get

H.I.F: Humorous Why I support my local newspaper: "Local TV newsrooms ostensibly cover hundreds of towns in their broadcast area and rarely dedicate even more than a few seconds ”“ if that – to local government or school news. Unless your school district is going on strike or your

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew, the Christmas frenzy is over. Every year it's the same thing: High energy and expectations going in, utter exhaustion coming out, but with expectations more or less met. I was so tired last night, I was concerned that I was coming down with something, but

A Random Passage Humorous anecdote about Albert Jay Nock: "He left the American in 1914 after claiming he wrote a deliberately bad article about Edison that was accepted and published." Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism.

If you've never read Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large, consider giving it a shot. It's a work of a bygone era, written by a man who lived in our era (died in 1999). When I read