Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling Great weekend. We were jammed with football games and cross-country meets, but Alex and Abbie were home from UM for Fall Break. It's great to spend time with them. I've always enjoyed being with my kids, even when they were little (though, admittedly,

Apparently, someone at 4chan isn't a big fan of pink football, either. Futuristic National Breast Cancer Awareness Football League [http://i.imgur.com/m1eSYWd.png]. Kinda funny.

Frito-Lay just announced that they're coming out with new glow-in-the-dark Cheetos just in time for Halloween. Glow-in-the-dark Cheetos. People asked, “Are they safe to eat?” And Frito-Lay said, "Were they ever?

Nock Notions A few years back, Jonah Goldberg wrote a pretty good piece about Nock, but I think he missed the Nockian essence. "Nock's greatest mistake," wrote Goldberg, "lay in his fatalism . . . he in effect surrendered to the same consensus that [collectivism] was the '

"Syrian dictator Assad says he may run for re-election next year. In fact, today he went over the results of next year's election and he said it looks pretty good." "Circulation of newspapers has fallen to all-time lows. They say newspapers are becoming

H.I.F. I've started "Twitter following" The Catholic Thinker [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic]. S/he puts out some great quotes, like this one: “If you live today, you breath in nihilism...it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the

"We do not nowadays refute our predecessors, we pleasantly bid them good-bye." That's Santayana, in Character and Opinion in the United States, around 1920. Things, of course, haven't changed in this regard. Nock pointed out that Henry George was never refuted, just ignored.