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Eric Scheske

Saturday

Musicals and the Mind Abbreviated blogging today. It's musical weekend. Abbie has the role of Jo Jo in Seussical [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seussical]. Last night was excellent. I look forward to seeing it again. The high school musicals seem so much higher in quality than they

Friday

BYCU An advice columnist at the Washington Post ran this sniveling drivel [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-control-freak-and-dishonest-to-boot/2012/01/17/gIQAN2RxVQ_story.html] : "My girlfriend has complained a lot every time I make a batch (every two months): She says the

Thursday

Caveman Update I had my annual physical on Tuesday. The doctor noted that, in the past year, I had lost 15 pounds, my blood pressure had dropped from 108 to 102, and my pulse had gone from "very good" to "athletic." He asked what I was

Wednesday

Seneca and Well-Tried Authors Nassim Taleb's new book apparently has a section about Seneca. From the Econtalk podcast that I wrote about on Monday [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/01/taleb_on_antifr.html]: > [W]hen I read the best expository of Stoicism, the best

Tuesday

Do It for the Children The number one friend of big government: The Crisis. When there's a crisis, the government says it needs more power in order to deal with it, and then it scarcely ratchets its newly-acquired power back down after the crisis is over. Big

Monday

Antifragility Nassim Taleb [http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/] is coming out with a new book. It sounds great. Unfortunately, it won't be available for another eight months. I listened to a podcast about it [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/01/taleb_on_antifr.html]. Twice . . . but mostly due

Something for Sunday Morning

"Limiting one's desires actually helps to cure one of fear." Seneca

Saturday

So colleges and university take it on the chin twice: First, Obama tells them they need to control tuition. Second, Apple announces that they'll sell textbooks . . . for as low as $17.99. Obama's words, of course, are fatuous. In the same speech, he pushed for more

Friday

BYCU I'm not sure why it's newsworthy, but it's definitely brewsworthy: Pat Sajak says he and Vanna White got drunk before Wheel of Fortune tapings back in the day [http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/01/26/pat-sajak-says-vanna-white-got-drunk-

Wednesday

Soros the Austrian? George Soros grabbed headlines yesterday with an interview in Newsweek [http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/22/george-soros-on-the-coming-u-s-class-war.print.html] . The rabid leftist octogenarian investment icon and social activist ain't too optimistic. He's expecting