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Eric Scheske

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, it's only September 9th and I'm already footballed-out. Friday night, I listened sporadically to my local high school team's game on radio; on Saturday, I spent four hours attending my youngest son's first game in high temperatures; on

9/11 Days

From the General Instruction of the Roman Missal [http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/the-mass/general-instruction-of-the-roman-missal/girm-chapter-2.cfm] : > D) The Concluding Rites > 90.To the Concluding Rites belong the following: > a) brief announcements, should they be necessary; >

Friday

BYCU This is one of the neatest beer pieces I've seen this year [http://www.toledocitypaper.com/August-Issue-1-2013/2013-Beer-Guide/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc] . It's an article from the Toledo Blade that features interviews with a dozen bartenders

Chesterton Short

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

CPV

The Catholic Point of View "Everyone has opinions . . . but not everyone has a point of view." Joseph Epstein, "H.L. Mencken for Grownups," Partial Payments. Epstein's remark is critical, citing V.S. Naipul's condescending remark about one of his characters, "she

Happy Labor Day: A Few Random Things

Well, another summer gone. I held high hopes for this summer: it might be the last one with all my kids home. It didn't go poorly, but I was absolutely swamped at the office, which made it inordinately difficult to enjoy the season. I like to work, and

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I just watched the first ten minutes of the Nobel Peace Prize winner's warmongering. I had to click it off. Unbelievable.

Friday

BYCU > Five years ago, the warehouse of Woodland beverage distributor V. Santoni & Co. was stocked with fewer than 300 varieties of beer. Today the company's inventory contains 1,800 brews, a change that reflects the exploding number of mostly small companies making craft beer. Link [http:

James and Rothbard

As of this writing, I haven't finished James' Pragmatism, but I found this statement in Lecture Two that, I believe, summarizes James' opinion regarding how religion fits into the philosophy of pragmatism. The italics are his: > If theological ideas prove to have a value for

Economics and War

There is a definite correlation between economic troubles and war: the former leads to the latter. Now, does economic trouble lead to war naturally, like clashing cold and warm fronts contribute to tornadoes? Or does economic trouble lead to war artificially, like a caught thief who gets away because, at