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Eric Scheske

Wednesday

Received in an Email From one of my investment newsletters: a good, concise explanation of the European problems (besides a dearth of soap and shampoo): > There are three dynamics and a tension: > ”¢ Dynamic I The inevitable default by Greece on its sovereign debt raises the likelihood that one

Tuesday

St. Francis The first part of October is crammed with good feast days. St. Therese on October 1st, St. Francis today, St. Bruno in a few days. In honor of St. Francis Feast Day, I grabbed Joseph Pearce's Wisdom and Innocence, A Life of GK Chesterton off the

Monday

Manners I learned yesterday in Richard Brookhiser's biography of George Washington that he relied heavily on a 16th-century Jesuit text of manners. Washington transcribed the book as a teenager and kept it with him the rest of his life. I believe I have located the little book,

Something for Sunday Morning

"Work is a physical necessity; if you don't work, you don't eat. Prayer is a necessity of obligation; if you don't pray you will not enter the Kingdom." John Senior, The Restoration of Christian Culture

Friday

BYCU I collected a lot of beer cans in my youth and I've drank a lot of different beers as an adult, but I ain't never heard of no National Beer. Anybody else ever hear of it? A convenience store client of mine, incidentally, was able

Thursday

Gilbert Arrived The new issue of Gilbert Magazine arrived a few days ago (for those unaware, I used to edit that esteemed rag). Dale Ahlquist has a splendid travel piece about this recent trip to England. He spent time in a monastery with Dom Phillip Jeb, who is the grandson

Wednesday

The Humor Escapes Me You know who I can't stand? Stephen Colbert. I've actually grown to like Jon Stewart a little, but Colbert? I can't stomach him (yeah, yeah: I know he's Catholic--that just makes it worse). His entire schtick strikes

From an E-Newsletter

“Yum! Brands and other companies who own fast-food restaurants are heavily lobbying the administration to allow their franchisees to take food stamps instead of cash,” writes a reader looking at the issue from a different angle. “That should ensure we have a never-ending supply of obese diabetics with

Tuesday

I'm Walk(er)ing to New Orleans The Walker Percy Center's Inaugural Conference is October 14-16 [http://scrutinies.net/2011/09/come-moviegoing-with-me.html]. It's kind of late notice, but I'd really like to go. Unfortunately, it's

Monday

The mighty Lions! They're 3-0. I didn't think they looked good yesterday, so I'm not as excited about them now as I was 48 hours ago. But seven straight regular season wins, a come-from-behind win (against the Vikings), a blow-out