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Eric Scheske

From the Notebooks: Short Story

Wild Darrell and the Haunted House: A Dialogue "They say the nobleman William Darrell took the baby from the midwife and threw it into the fireplace. He held the newborn down with his boot until it was burned to death." "Why would he do such a thing?

Joke

Joke. A man is at a cocktail party. An angel appears and reveals to the crowd that the man had recently risked his life to save a little girl. The angel announced to the man in front of everybody: "You may choose one: Greatest wisdom, greatest wealth, or greatest

On Walking

And on Writing I'm a big believer in walking, both strolling and fast walking. The paleo-guy [http://www.arthurdevany.com/] doesn't like fast walking because he thinks cave men either strolled or sprinted. But no matter. I like walking at all different speeds, especially at

Something for Sunday Morning

"Suffering out of love of God is better than working miracles." St. John of the Cross

BYCU, Kind of

A client stopped by my office last week. In the course of our conversation, he mentioned that he has a medical marijuana card (Michigan passed a medical marijuana law in 2008). He's in his sixties. He said he doesn't smoke the stuff, but it allows him

Thursday

Jones and Food Rolling Stone magazine lights up Alex Jones [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/talk-radios-alex-jones-the-most-paranoid-man-in-america-20110302?print=true] . Kinda. It starts off swinging hard. Toward the beginning of the piece: "The Gates Foundation? 'Obviously a eugenics operation.

Some Good Late Night Lines

Conan: 'President Obama gave a nationally televised speech about Libya. The speech was titled, “No, I wasn't born there.'" Kimmel: "President Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, he sent the Navy in to shoot at pirates in the Indian Ocean, and now he'

Wednesday

C.S. Lewis was a very good debater. He wasn't as viciously clever as Belloc, nor as disarmingly effective as Chesterton, but he was good. They say he never lost a debate while at Oxford. Until he ran into Elizabeth Anscombe [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E.

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly This guy broke into Auschwitz. Perhaps the best link in today's post. . . . more>> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8388863/I-was-the-man-who-broke-into-Auschwitz.html] And Germany still can't get over the Nazis. Is

Monday

More Hans Hans-Hermann Hoppe might be the most original thinker on the face of the earth today. Over the weekend, I found this lengthy interview [http://www.thedailybell.com/1936/Anthony-Wile-with-Dr-Hans-Hermann-Hoppe-on-the-Impracticality-of-One-World-Government-and-Western-style-Democracy.html]