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Eric Scheske

Thaddeus on Howard

I still haven't gotten through Zinn's A People's History of the United States, partly because my attention has been diverted to early medieval history and partly because I bought the iBook version that doesn't work on my Kindle, but I've

Wednesday

My favorite essayist (Jewish or otherwise) asks a good question. In a review essay of a T.S. Eliot biography, Joseph Epstein writes: > But might it be allowed that one can write or say anti-Semitic things without being an anti-Semite? Eliot is guilty of the former, but

Humorous

H.I.F. Drudge killed me with this morning's headline: "Let the Gaymes Begin." It's the link to this article [http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/rights-group-releases-video-of-lgbt-attacks-in-russia/?_php=true&_type=blogs&src=

Tuesday

Miscellaneous Rambling Professor Charles Rice used to comment during jurisprudence class that a person didn't need long hair and sandals to be a radical. A person just needed to be a good Catholic. I've long sympathized with that observation. It was brought to mind when I

Essay

Frankenstein's Mom was a Liberal It was a freaky night at Lake Geneva in Switzerland: chilly for a summer evening, relentlessly rainy. Then again, most nights were rainy that year. A volcanic eruption the previous year in Tambora, Indonesia, in 1815 had spewed tons of ash into the

Sunday

A Random Passage “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That's something that should be on a Hallmark card, but it's true nonetheless.

Saturday

Miscellaneous Rambling Four points for a 50-yard field goal? Bad idea and not necessary. The reward for a long field goal is built into the game: you get three points, even though your lame offense didn't advance the ball very far. * * * * * * * I think the NFL will nix

Good Late Night

"The forecast for Sunday's Super Bowl has improved in the last week. It's expected to be in the mid-30s with winds of only 6 miles an hour. That's a good temperature for New Jersey. It's above freezing but not so

BYCU

BYCU Indiana has a blue [Christmas] law that prohibits alcohol sales on December 25th. An Indiana officer received a tip that an Indiana store had sold alcohol on Christmas, so she started an investigation. They're now spanking all sorts of small stores throughout the Hoosier state [http://www.

Historical BYCU

What is mead? Basically, honey wine. A drink made of water, honey, malt, and yeast. It pre-dates beer and grape wine, and it might be the oldest alcoholic drink known to us, with the exception of the alcohol that early hard-core alkies slurped from the bottom of grain