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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

Gearing-Up-for-Holidays Edition Tired of all the pumpkin ale stuff? This site offers three autumn drinks that don't feature pumpkins [http://www.servedraw.com/2010/11/3-autumn-cocktails-sans-pumpkin/]: The Rattlesnake, Ginger Smash, and Largo Al Factotum Della Citta. (Good luck pronouncing that last

Thursday

Random Stuff I took the four eldest to see Unstoppable Tuesday night. I highly recommend the movie for a parent that wants to spend a fun 100 minutes with his boys. It's not a great movie, but it's intense, action-packed, and just a little violent.

TEE

“In announcing the change of editors, Mencken called Hazlitt the 'only competent critic of the arts that I have heard of who was at the same time a competent economist,' as well as 'one of the few economists in human history who could really write.'"

Tuesday Morning Wake-Up

It's been a common theme here for the past couple of years: The federal government and Wall Street--abetted by the universities--are taking care of themselves and screwing the rest of us. If you're in the group, you're doing well. If you'

Tuesday

From the Notebooks In the Introduction to his 1951 book, The Human Revolt (a/k/a The Rebel), Camus said about suicide: “[F]rom this act of self-destruction itself a value arises which, perhaps, might have made it worth while to live.” In other words, Camus asked, Why would

Monday

Big Albert It's the Memorial of St. Albert the Great [http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/ALBERT.HTM]. I've long been intrigued with Albertus Magnus. He not only taught St. Thomas Aquinas, and he not only early recognized STA's brilliance ("You call him

Something for Sunday Morning

"We shall ask him to help us uproot our egoism, to cure us of thinking too much about ourselves and to eliminate from our hearts any kind of lukewarmness." Francis Fernandez -- Mobile post

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

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,

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