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Eric Scheske

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Conan O'Brien officiated a gay wedding yesterday [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/11/late-night-conan-obrien-officiates-gay-wedding-on-his-show.html] . I made myself watch the video (which is everywhere on the web this morning). I'm numb at the cultural divide in

Friday

This ad captures my mood this week. Brutal days in the office. I should've been sneaking beer behind desk. BYCU I dig Wired magazine. I don't dig it enough to subscribe, so they hate me of course, but I do enjoy their stuff. Earlier this week,

Thursday

I Cain't Believe It Herman Cain gets smeared by sexual harassment allegations. It kinda sucks, since I was actually thinking about voting for him. How couldn't I, once I saw these pictures: Alas, it sounds like those sexual harassment allegations have traction. It reminds me of

Wednesday

Happy All Souls Day. It's probably my favorite non-obligatory feast day of the year. Occupy a Job Already The Occupy Wall Street people need to go home. I sympathized with them at first: I hate Wall Street, too. But it's obvious that it's

Tuesday

From the Notebooks In Orestes Brownson's meditations on the growing tension and eventual war between the North and the South, he favored the South's “personal democracy,” which he contrasted with the North's “humanitarian democracy.” The South's personal democracy recognized the individual'

Monday

Happy Halloween If you want to see the difference between adults and children, look no further than Halloween. For little kids, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year after Christmas. When kids get older, Halloween fades in importance. My first child was old enough to enjoy Halloween when I

Carved My Own Pumpkin

First in 35 years: -- Mobile post

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we were bodily immortal we would feel no such need for technical gadgets saving time time by conquering space." Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddin

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But I am of the opinion that a centralized administration is fit only to enervate the nations in which it exists, by incessantly diminishing their local spirit. Although such an administration can bring together at a given moment, on a given point, all the disposable resources of a people, it

Friday

Just sittin' around drinkin' with the rest of the guys/Six rounds bought, and I bought five. Roger Miller. Possibly my favorite song lyric of all time. BYCU How long can I survive on beer alone? "Not more than a few months, probably. That's when