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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Thursday

Colons, Tebow, and Other Gosh, I hope so: "Colonoscopy Lowers Rate of Cancer Deaths, Study Finds [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/health/colonoscopy-prevents-cancer-deaths-study-finds.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw] ." I'd hate to think

Ash Wednesday

Lent Welcome to Lent 2012. I enter the season with high expectations, more so than usual. I can't identify the source of my optimism, but maybe the letters of Seneca are wearing on me well. Then again, Seneca counseled against hope, though, in his letter on groundless fears

Tuesday

Letters to Children: On History It's difficult to instruct you here, but I suggest you concentrate your reading in three areas: (1) Obtaining a general historical sense; (2) American history; (3) Classical history. (1) In order to understand much of what you read, you need a general chronological

Monday

Miscellany Ron Paul easily leads the yard-sign race in my neighborhood. I'd put one in my yard (which would be a first for me), but I don't know where to get them. * * * * * * * I mean, who else is willing to say things like this: "We&

Something for Sunday Morning

"Gregory of Sinai is insisting on an essential aspect of the Orthodox mystical tradition: the most dangerous enemy to union with God is imagination in any shape or form, voluntary or involuntary. There is a curious likeness between this Eastern spiritual doctrine and Simone Weil's concept of

Saturday

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

Funny Fallon

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

Friday BYCU

Slow drinking news week. Fortunately, I have been holding back this link to Doug Crockwell's series, "What Kind of Drinker Are You?" [http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/a/aa/drink/t.htm] There's enough drinking fodder to keep TDE readers amused until the effects

Thursday

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

Good Late Night

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.