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Eric Scheske

Interesting

H.I.F. Quite a coincidence to see this the day after I posted about my unconventional investment approach: George Soros is betting on the stock market going down and is putting money into mining stocks [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-17/soros-put-hits-record-billionaires-downside-

Ira

Ira Gershwin and his wife and another couple were about to go out to dinner at a fashionable Manhattan restaurant. Gershwin offered to call for a table. He returned to say none was available. “Let me try,” said the other man. He returned to announce that they indeed had a

Monday

Econ Monday Long-time readers may recall that I blogged once a week on economic matters ("Econ Saturday"), in the wake of the 2008 meltdown. I stopped for a couple of reasons: I grew tired of it, my attention floated to other matters (Nockian studies, now Bellocian studies)

Sunday

A Random Passage Kentucky, Randolph said, with fine aristocratic distaste, was the “Australia of Virginia.” Bill Kauffman, Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. (Randolph: John Randolph of Roanoke, the subject to Russell Kirk's first book.)

Dickensesque

I found those quotes in Thaddeus Russell's Renegade History. Good stuff: > Many did tell of whippings, sadistic overseers, loved ones being sold away, and of wishing to be free. But we must come to terms with the fact that a majority of ex-slaves who offered an

Interesting

H.I.F. A Lutheran allies with a Jewish atheist in support of slavery. And they're fighting against some Catholics. I'm siding with the Lutheran-atheist-slaveholder axis. Sure, the Catholics are exaggerating and are guilty of intellectual dishonesty (the axis doesn't support slavery)

Historical BYCU

BYCU "When George VI and the queen visited Christ Church on the 400th anniversary of its founding, Trevor-Roper, in a letter to his friend Solly Zuckerman, wrote: 'I signalized Their Majesties visit by extreme intoxication. My hand still trembles, my mind is cloudy, and I am crippled

On Noah

It's helpful to notice the subtle, but relentless, efforts by the leftist elites, whether it's the pro-gay ESPN or Hollywood or the Beltway or the MSM in general [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=31642&cpage=1#comment-228655], to marginalize the Christian element in this

Thursday

Funny Quotes On Aldous Huxley: "The stupid person's idea of the clever person." Elisabeth Bowen. ******* Melville on Emerson's gaping flaw: "It was the insinuation that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

Nock Notions

Nock and Socrates If you spend any time reading about Albert Jay Nock, you quickly learn two things: (1) He was an intensely private man, perhaps the most private man in the history of the United States, battling with Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski for that top spot. (2) He thought