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Eric Scheske

Monday

Barbarians at the Gate Alan Greenspan returns to his libertarian roots more and more each day. The stunner quote: "We have at this particular stage a fiat money which is essentially money printed by a government and it's usually a central bank which is authorized to do

Cold in SW Michigan

Something for Sunday Morning

"Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them." St. Francis de Sales

BYCU

No time for blogging today, so I offer this six-pack of cool pics:

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