Eric Scheske

H.I.F. A few more from Reddit's Today I Learned [http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/]: A black woman in 1828 won a lawsuit against a white man who sold her son into slavery. She was the first black woman to win a lawsuit against a white

Marvel Comics is introducing its first major superhero who is a female Muslim. The female Muslim superhero can fly, which comes in handy because she's not allowed to drive.

While preparing for a trip to Rome, I downloaded Rick Steves' Rome 2014 guide. In his (intentionally) comically short history of the Eternal City, he wrote the following: > Ancient Rome lasted a thousand years (500 B.C.-A.D. 500), half as an expanding republic, half as a

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. A few "Today I Learned [http://en.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/]" entries from Reddit: The McRib is only "back" whenever pork prices are lowest. Link [http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage]. A trivia book author

British scientists are saying King Tut died in a chariot accident. I think he was texting.

Great passage from a 1999 interview with Joseph Epstein [http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/ba990630.htm]. I've emphasized the last sentence because (i) it parallels the Samuel Johnson quote that has graced the top of the TDE page for nearly ten years, and (ii) it&

Miscellaneous Rambling Best link of my weekend reading: The Ten Commandments of Government [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-02/10-commandments-government]. They're all relevant and accurate, but I think I liked the Tenth Commandment the best: "As government grows ever more powerful, it must

H.I.F. Time to whip out that Eddie Murphy routine about shooting the Pope (PG-13 content) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHNq07Cwms] then going to Hell: "It came out this week that the NSA spied on the headquarters of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and

H.I.F. I learned about Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com/] last week. It "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online