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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

The Wisdom of Crowds I'm really digging a particular Amazon Kindle feature that I never thought I'd use: the popular highlight. If you're not acquainted with electronic readers, most of them allow you to highlight passages. It's similar to the old highlighter

Monday

Misellany Very nice trip to Ann Arbor on Saturday. I got to spend the day with Alex and Abbie, plus my three youngest sons and a niece. The weather was perfect. We got to see a lot of campus and experience the game-day excitement that is U of M'

Something for Sunday Morning

“Obedience is, in a way, the mother of all virtues.” St. Augustine

Saturday

My daughter Abbie is at the University of Michigan. She signed up for a woman's studies class. After the first day--and ample exposure to the lesbian instructor--she dropped the class. While sitting at dinner with brother Alex and his friends, they were marveling that she even signed up

Friday

BYCU The ex-Commies are getting better taste in beer: "[T]he owner of Russia's biggest brewer, said it will place an increasing emphasis on selling higher-priced beers in the country to compensate for weakening volume there." Link [http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-09-13/carlsberg-to-focus-on-premium-beer-in-russia-as-volume-declines] . * * * * * * * This can&

Thursday

Bullets Cafe Hayek featured a quote by my man Chodorov earlier this week [http://cafehayek.com/2012/09/quotation-of-the-day-395.html], and it's a god one: "The final argument for free trade as a measure of preparedness is that it tends to minimize the irritations which lead to

Wednesday

From the Notebooks The modern Russian mystic Nicholas Berdyaev taught that the "complete person" is creative in the "ecstasy of the moment," which, Berdyaev said, is outside time. At about the same time that Berdyaev wrote those words, a man of a different intellectual persuasion observed

Tuesday

Bailout Podcast Real good podcast over at Econtalk: Neil Barofsky, talking about his new book, Bailout. [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.html] Barofsky was an insider to the whole TARP operation, working as "Special Inspector General" in the Treasury. Barofsky is, from what

Monday

My garden, as of yesterday. I took the picture so I can remember next Spring where I grew things this year. * * * * * * * Not a highly successful gardening year. Grades for my efforts: Currants: A; Blackberries: A; Cherry/Grape Tomatoes: A; Chard: A; Herbs: A-; Cucumbers: B; Spinach: B; Broccoli: B-; Tomatoes:

Something for Sunday Morning

“The love of neighbor has its bounds in each man's love of himself.” St. Augustine