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Eric Scheske

The Evening Eudemon

“It is an error to see in our dreams nothing but the divagations of our unconscious self. They are woven of the same threads-though unpicked and re-ordered-that compose the stuff of our life and our being. In them we find tossed together memories of yesterday and memories of our remotest

Friday

Brews You Can Use Another instance of modern academics catching up with ancient understanding: Beer may have lubricated the rise of civilization [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40071314/ns/technology_and_science-science/]. I have long speculated (and may have internalized it from a third party, like Chesterton) that, upon

Thursday

It's the Exiting-the-Pool Economy! Finally, an econ watcher gives vent to something I've been witnessing: value shrinkage. It's the flip-side of price increases. Instead of rising prices, we get less for the same price. "Due to rising input costs and an overall higher

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“A Nietzschean friend of mine who had stayed at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino, humbly confessed the thing that had surprised him most: in this society of monks living by a common faith, subject to a common rule, he had come to be aware of an extraordinary variety of

Bonus Monday Morning Coverage

What the heck? Bernanke announced QE2 just five days ago. This morning, the WSJ runs a piece by Kevin Warsh [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704353504575596762375409760.html?KEYWORDS=Kevin+warsh#articleTabs%3Darticle] , a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. The piece is balanced and sane. The

Monday

Pope, Pixar, and Peanut Butter Ah man. That's just gross: "About 200 people have staged a gay "kiss-in" as Pope Benedict XVI drove by [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101107/ap_on_re_eu/eu_pope_10]." I think I'd rather

Something for Sunday Morning

"The virtue of fortitude leads us to be patient when unpleasant things happen and we are given bad news. It leads us to be patient in dealing with the obstacles that each day brings with it." Francis Fernandez

Friday

Brews You Can Use Halloween is over, but it's still the harvest season. Harvest-themed beers are appropriate through November 25th. I bought a six-pack of pumpkin beer last year and really enjoyed it. If you want a run-down of a handful of pumpkin beers that were sampled at

Wednesday

Post-Election Ramblings As I get older and read more, I realize that our Founding Fathers had a lot of flaws and the system they implemented was not an impartial mechanism of governing. Still, their ideas impress me, like their insight that the Senate would be a stabilizing force that guards

Election Bonus

Jonah Goldberg at the LA Times recounts a handful of 2008 obituaries about the Republican party and boasts about the ascendancy of liberalism [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-1102-goldberg-demography-20101102,0,7873396.column] . Pretty funny, in light of what is apparently going to happen today.