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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

Speaking of Detroit (see yesterday's main post), I listened to a podcast on Saturday about building strong towns and urban renewal (go here for podcast [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/charles_marohn.html]). The interviewee is an urban consultant who emphasizes the need for non-macro

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling I spent Friday in Grand Rapids, attending the annual Business Law Institute. It wasn't highly profitable. I learned a few things, but for the most part, the topics were either too basic or too off-beat. They did, however, bring in two attorneys who have been

Sunday

A Random Passage Why was I wasting time, watching a TV show about the long-running TV show Cops? No good reason, except I'm an American and, to quote George Santayana, “Americans love junk.” He added: “It's not the junk that bothers me, it's

Saturday

If I weren't on a self-imposed book-buying hiatus, I'd be buying this one in a heart beat: Chesterton's America: A Distributist History of the United States. Mary Kochan reviews it at Catholic Lane [http://catholiclane.com/book-review-chestertons-america/]. Excerpt: >

Conan

Last night the Los Angeles Kings won Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals in overtime. Fans in L.A. went crazy after they heard about it this morning at work.

BYCU

BYCU Gin and tonic season is upon us. Even manly men will occasionally succumb and drink one on a hot day. I googled it and found this interesting piece at About.com [http://cocktails.about.com/od/spirits/p/gist_gin.htm]. From the intro: > Gin was created by

Meyers

This summer marks the 75th anniversary of Little League Baseball. Or to put it in Little League terms, six innings.

Conan

The co-founder of Burt's Bees was forced out of the company for having an affair with an employee. He was caught during a sting operation.

Thursday

Some things never change. Writing about Bacon's Rebellion (1676) in his People's History, Howard Zinn discusses Nathaniel Bacon's “Declaration of the People,” saying it “shows a mixture of populist resentment against the rich and frontier hatred of the Indians. It indicted the [Governor] Berkeley

Fallon

Tim Tebow said that he's staying in shape in case he gets another opportunity to play in the NFL. Then his boss said, “That's great, but these Waffle Tacos ain't going to make themselves, so . . .”