Eric Scheske

TIL "health insurance" was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care. Link [http:

Miscellaneous Rambling The Tiny House Movement [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_house_movement]. I'd heard of tiny houses, but I didn't realize they'd become a movement. Tom Woods interviewed one of the pioneers earlier this month [http://tomwoods.com/blog/whats-the-tiny-

Listverse posted this interesting article a few hours ago: 10 Soul-Destroying Visions Experienced By Real People [http://listverse.com/2014/08/10/10-soul-destroying-visions-experienced-by-real-people/] . I'm linking to it because I found it interesting, but I'm not vouching for its

A Random Passage “Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.” Lactantius

H.I.F. Readers have never seen many TDE posts about foreign policy, probably because my stance on foreign policy is pretty isolationist and doesn't rise much above the level of, "Let's leave people alone and mind our own business." There isn't

Pretty wild:

BYCU Vodka is now my drink of choice. I try to drink red wine, but when the day comes to an end and I'm ready to unwind, health concerns take a back seat. Of course, not everyone likes vodka, even people who drink hard liquor. I found this

Yesterday photos were leaked of the Dallas Cowboys owner, 71-year-old Jerry Jones, with two much younger women. The photos were leaked by Jerry Jones.

> An important contribution of Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus was that it recognized what should have been clear for a long time–namely, that the modern state is something altogether new and not to be treated analytically as merely an extension of the political

H.I.F. Two interesting things forwarded to me by my son, Alex (the one returning from Salamanca today): 1. In Russia there is no legal definition for ethnicity, so citizens can declare whatever they want, including Jedi and Hobbit. 2. A (very dedicated) fan's explanation on why