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Eric Scheske

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.

New Study

As part of my return to post-Christmas normalcy, I dug into my study last weekend. It had gotten to be a pit. I put in an island of bookshelves, using them to establish an economics/investment section of my library, then rearranged much of the other furniture. I was

Monday

Greenspan and Other Problems Is this guy for real? Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said the U.S. could face a bond-market crisis if politicians don't act soon to start cutting the nation's debt [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704739504576067832461529192.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&

Something for Sunday Morning

“Unless one is well on the road to holiness, it is very difficult in the midst of a daily routine to see things in perspective, as they really are.” Thomas Dubay

BYCU

The Machine This might be the neatest beer device since the keg: bottom-up dispensers [http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=24970]. They transform the keg from a foamy, slow device into a beer-gushing machine: 44 pints a minute [http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/how-it-works-beer-

Wednesday

Talebisms If you didn't know about it, Nassim Taleb has an online notebook [http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm]. I'm not sure whether he regularly adds to it, but there's a ton of prose on it already. I downloaded it to my iPad and

Tuesday

Tuesday Miscellany I'm leaning toward the Alex Jones explanation on this one: Government secret testing may have killed all those fish and birds in Arkansas [http://www.infowars.com/is-mass-bird-and-fish-die-off-connected-to-government-testing/] . Sure, violent weather could've killed the