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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Thursday

The Vat My firm subscribes to the New Yorker. A recent issue featured this piece about the Vatican library, "God's Librarians [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/03/110103fa_fact_mendelsohn]." It's good, especially for a magazine that isn't terribly friendly

Wednesday

Woe the Man with Halitosis I found a book on sports psychology at the library last week. It could aptly be called, "The Tao and Sports." Because the Tao has long intrigued me (note [http://dailyeudemonannex.blogspot.com/2011/01/monday.html]), I checked it out. I suspect

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Athletes like to text and twitter. Why? Because they're dumb jocks. Maybe. . . . more [http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/why-sportmen-text]>> Communists. Cultural Marxists. Progressives. All the same: totalitarians, intent on subjugating the masses. . . . more>> [http://www.americanthinker.com/

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