Eric Scheske
Bastiat
Kontent from the Kindle
A few gems from Bastiat's The Law:
> The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the
substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is
to do only what the individual forces have
Funny Fallon
A lot of couples are planning on getting married tomorrow because the date will
be 11/12/13. Couples say they like 11/12/13 because it's a unique date that will
never happen again. In a related story, that's literally how EVERY date works.
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Charity and Skepticism
Kontent from the Kindle
"True freedom comes only to a lucid mind unbound by conventional wisdom and
suspicious of received opinions."
That's Joseph Epstein, writing about Santayana in Essays in Biography. It's a
great aphorism. It reminds of GKC's observation that only
I literally cross the Tiber
I'm on a trip to Rome right now. Details to follow in a few days.
Humorous
H.I.F.
A few "[Crappy] Today I Learned from Reddit:
When people say "break a leg" they're not actually telling you to break a leg.
If you smoke enough weed, dynamiting a beached whale seems like a good idea.
"Baby carrots" are
De Lubac and Nietzsche
"God is dead." Anyone who graduated eighth grade has heard that famous Nietzsche
pronouncement. It makes Christians cringe, but Nietzsche meant nothing by it. He
was merely pronouncing what the rest of Western civilization had impliedly
concluded. He needed to slam shut the book on Christianity so he
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Never Knew That
Writing about Mencken's column, "The Free Lance" in The Baltimore Sun (1911),
Terry Teachout says "Mencken appears to have been one of the first modern
American newspapermen to write a signed editorial-page column in which he
commented regularly on major issues
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An Ass
Theodore Dreiser's The Genius (1915) was "a self-serving obviously
autobiographical novel about an artist whose wife failed to understand his need
to copulate at will with other women." Terry Teachout, The Skeptic: A Life of
H.L. Mencken (Harper Collins, 2002), p. 128.
Interesting, BYCU Version
H.I.F.
For all you beer nerds out there: "Beer Studies: BJCP Classic Example
Scoresheets with Audio [http://www.bjcp.org/course/ClassicStyles.php]." Pretty
extensive effort.