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Eric Scheske

Thursday

Random "Bubble Ball" is the king of the iPod Application universe. It has been downloaded over 2 million times. The developer? A fourteen-year-old boy from Utah [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348293/Robert-Nay-14-video-game-iPhone-app-Bubble-Boy-downloaded-2m-times.

Wednesday

Von Mises I'm fifty pages into Human Action. Only 850 pages to go. I'm impressed, to put it mildly. Of course, I went in expecting to be blown away, so the book had a receptive audience, but still: it's awfully impressive so far. His

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Pedophiles. Abusers secretly moved to other posts. Rampant cover-up. Dang Catholics! Oh wait. They're talking about the public schools. . . . more>> [http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/a_priest_and_an_altar_boy_hah.html] A giant in his time, bigger

Attention New York

My family and I are coming there this year. We are in the planning stages. We plan to stay in mid-town Manhattan. Our first question: Will we be able to park our 12-person Econoline van? It's 9-feet high, so parking garages are out of the

Monday

Announcing New Feature I read over the weekend that Dennis Dutton died. Dutton was the creator of Arts & Letters Daily [http://www.aldaily.com/], one of the best websites in the cyberworld (which he sold in 2002 but continued to edit). For simple elegance (published as a 18th-century

Something for Sunday Morning

“The rational creature cannot wish not to be happy.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Brews You Can Use

Johnny Horton Stuff I know Anchorage is in southern Alaska, but I would've thought it was night time at least 18 hours a day right now. No matter: They're hosting their 16th Annual Great Alaska Beer & Barley Wine Festival [http://www.alaskadispatch.com/culture/shop-

Thursday

Random Thursday The MSM economic cheerleaders at CNBC say the housing market has entered the Depression zone. Link [http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019790]. That's a significant admission from an unlikely source. I appreciate the candor, but I really liked this little piece of trivia: "The value

Wednesday

Kauffman, Soap, and Dirty Dollars Bill Kauffman is great. In this piece [http://www.amconmag.com/blog/ikes-last-stand/the-other-eisenhowers/], he writes about Eisenhower's isolationist/pacifist family members. Interesting stuff, and it ends with this point to ponder: "Since 1941, war has warped American

TEE

No policy could be more dangerous, more certain ultimately to produce a social explosion, than to educate young people for many years and deny them first the opportunity to earn a living that they believe is commensurate with their education, and then the opportunity to earn a living at all.