Eric Scheske

Nassim Tale: “Never listen to a leftist who does not give away his fortune." Enter leftist Gene Nichol [http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/18167/]: > A controversial, outspoken law professor who frequently bashes Republicans and specializes in poverty issues as a self-proclaimed champion of the poor earns $205,

I was never a Michael Jackson fan, but I mastered the moonwalk under the tutelage of another stock boy while working at K-Mart as a teenager. I didn't realize the move had been invented thirty years earlier. Here's Bill Bailey:

BYCU For those TDE readers who are in the dating world, this is for you: 40 Catholic Pick Up Lines [http://www.lauramcalister.com/2014/02/10/catholic-pick-lines/]. Some of them are pretty lame, but my nineteen-year-old daughter had identified these as her favorites: I'

A piece of rock 'n' roll history was sold yesterday. Some of Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics from 1965 went up for auction and got $2 million. Paying $2 million for Bob Dylan lyrics is a good way to know that Bob Dylan would have hated you

Kontent from the Kindle "Georges Simenon," Nassim Taleb observes in Antifragile, "only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent 'doing nothing.' He published more than two hundred novels." In the same chapter, Taleb wrote: > [T]he great French poets Paul

A real cloud formation, celebrating my home state: Link [http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/06/woman_takes_photo_of_cloud_sha.html] .

I thought I long ago ran this great quote from Bill Kauffman's Ain't My America, but apparently not. He is quoting John Randolph: > “No government, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, can be fit to govern me or those whom I represent.” He was

Kontent from the Kindle "We degrade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways." Dostoyevsky, The Idiot. 139 highlighters (as of 6/15/2014) "Of all forms of insolence there is none more flagrant than that of

Just saw it. The family was going, so I felt compelled to attend. Besides, I liked the first movie so figured this one would be at least halfway decent. My review: Terrible. Flat, canned dialogue. Worn-out humor shticks. Predictable plot. Slow and stretched out scenes. I might never see

Random Quotes Max Beerbohm's older brother, Herbert, was a funny guy. Once, when a man walked past him groaning under a grandfather clock he was carting on his back, Herbert said, "My good fellow, why not carry a watch?" (Joseph Epstein, Partial Payments ). ******* "[A] friend