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Eric Scheske

Interesting and Humorous

H.I.F. The best pithy parenthetical of the month comes courtesy of Zero Hedge, which posted today that Ohio does not have enough of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital to carry out a scheduled execution next month. Zero Hedge writes [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-28/ohio-

Benedictine Monday

That's a picture from the Clear Creek Abbey's October grape harvest [http://www.clearcreekmonks.org/news.html]. From their e-newsletter: "The monks of Saint Benedict engage in many forms of manual labor. Recently it was harvest time in our vineyard. We grow grapes of

Interesting

H.I.F. Apparently no one read new health law very carefully. In two spots, it says tax credits are available for people who buy insurance "through an exchange established by the state." But 36 states opted not to establish exchanges, so is the act effectively dead in

Frustrating

H.I.F. The insightful Arnold Kling breaks down the Obamacare website. The debacle borders on the scary [http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-obamacare-suitsgeeks-divide/]: "This is not a technical screw-up, and it will not be fixed by technical people. It is an organizational screw-up.

Friday

BYCU A long-time TDE reader sends along this great anecdote about fin de siÃ¨cle medicine [http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/09/walthers-peptonized-port-sold-in.html] . "Peptonized Port was helpful for 'people who are nervous, cannot stand noise, start at the least unusual sound” and

Red

Seen at Reddit:

Conan

Pope Francis suspended a bishop for spending too much on home renovations. The Pope caught the bishop filming an episode of "Flip This Church." A new study says that due to debt, 20-somethings will retire 12 years later than their parents do. When they heard this, 20-

James the Existentialist

I've written a bit about existentialism. In all my reading on the subject (ample for a layman, little for a scholar), I've never seen William James referred to as an existentialist thinker. But that's how Jacques Barzun refers to him in this passage from

Humorous and Interesting

H.I.F. Hallelujah. Nearly forty years of cleansing the hierarchy of leftists is showing strong fruit: "The head of Springfield's Roman Catholic diocese moved Tuesday to scuttle a silent protest by same-sex marriage advocates planned at the capital city's largest Catholic church, calling

Kimmel

There's a lot of talk about how global warming will be a disaster for future generations. When you think about it, it's hard to care. What have these future generations ever done for us?