Eric Scheske

Bullets I came into this morning's post with nothing. Absolutely nothing. I had to engage in some good old fashioned Firefox tab-opening and surfing to assemble this morning's post. Unfortunately, I didn't find much, but a few things jumped out. * * * * * * * Does anybody here worry

After disputes over its nuclear program, Iran is threatening to stop exporting oil. Which means the U.S. may have to tap into its backup reserve: Mitt Romney's hair. Today President Obama visited a factory in Wisconsin that brought back 100 jobs from China. It's got

From the Notebooks Nassim Taleb writes at the beginning of his first book, Fooled by Randomness: "We are still very close to our ancestors who roamed the savannah. The formation of our beliefs is fraught with superstitions--even today (I might say, especially today). Just as one day some primitive

The son of Hugh Hefner has been arrested on a charge of domestic violence. When he heard this, Hugh Hefner said, "Son, there's a right way and a wrong way to disrespect women." Conan On Valentine's Day, Americans spend $367 million on their pets.

Received in an Email The Bavarian Beer Purity Law [http://itotd.com/articles/519/the-bavarian-purity-law/]. Great stuff for the drinking historian. Excerpt: The short version of this law, which was enacted on April 23, 1516 by Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV (a.k.a. William IV), is that beer may contain

Letters to Children You should also read C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and the fiction of George MacDonald. MacDonald, however, is difficult to read. If you can only bear to read one thing, please read his story “The Golden Key.” It is a bizarre little story that