Eric Scheske

Random Quotes "When Mr. Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell he underestimates the distance." Brooks Atkinson ******* Oscar Levant to an obnoxious acquaintance: "I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away." ******* "No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on grounds

The Christian Science Monitor is claiming “Hillary Clinton will be a tad less interested in running for president now that she's about to be a grandmother.” And if you put a grain of sand in your pocket there's a tad less sand on the beach.

From the Bottom Line Personal [http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/]: "Making a fist helps you remember. Clench your right hand while preparing to remember something . . . and then your left hand when trying to recall it." Odd idea, that. I'm gonna have to try it.

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

H.I.F. The article I linked a few minutes ago has this great passage: "Paul Theroux notes that 'During his famous experiment in his cabin at Walden, moralizing about his solitude, [Thoreau] did not mention that he brought his mother his dirty laundry and went on enjoying

H.I.F. As more Americans grow tired of the warped culture and government programs that are tilted ruthlessly against the middle class, more Americans "opt out" and go into isolation. This article [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/thoreau-vs-st-benedict-how-we-opt-out-matters/] examines the

“I want to say congrats to Chelsea Clinton. Last week she announced that she is expecting her first child,” Fallon said, setting up the joke. “That's great. That's great for her. If it is a girl, it will get some of Chelsea's old hands-

“[B]lowup risks-to-others are easily concealed owing to the growing complexity of modern institutions.” Nassim Taleb, Antifragile. A page later, Taleb writes, “I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.” I combine those quotes with a consistent piece of investment advice that I

“When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man step

H.I.F. The 4chan online community has struck again. They spread word in their community that bestbookreads.com was holding an online vote on "What's the one book that transformed your life forever?" The 4channers descended on the site and vote Mein Kampf number one