Something for Sunday Morning
“Thoughts gather about the soul according to its underlying quality.” The
Philokalia
Eric Scheske
(Untitled)
But when you recall that one of the first moves by Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler
was to outlaw individual ownership of gold, you begin to sense that there may be
some connection between money, redeemable in gold, and the rare prize known as
human liberty.
- Howard Buffett (Warren Buffett&
The Evening Eudemon
“The teacher's unions are a menace and an impediment to reform. But politics
aside, it takes only a short tour through some of the country's failing schools
to see that reform is desperately needed.”
– “Waiting for Superman”: Sadder than fiction | The Economist (via Instapaper)
“The statistics
Friday
Ring the Bell!
I became a fan of Bell's beer about five years ago. It looks like I merely
jumped on a big drunken bandwagon: "The beer business is apparently booming and
Kalamazoo's Bell's Brewery is expanding just outside the city. . . Bell'
Thursday
I'm OK Depressed, You're OK Depressed
I listened to an hour-long podcast with the author of The Noble Lie: When
Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons . It sounds like a great
book and the podcast
[http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/09/greenberg_
Wednesday
Random
Good to know: “[T]he best way to survive in a falling elevator is to lie down on
your back. Sitting is bad but better than standing, because buttocks are
nature's safety foam. Muscle and fat are compressible: they help absorb the G
forces of the impact.
TEEudemon
“The little history learned in our school days suffices to prove this generic
doctrine. Everywhere we find some warlike tribe of wild men breaking through the
boundaries of some less warlike people, settling down as nobility and founding
its State. In Mesopotamia, wave follows wave, state follows state - Babylonians,
Tuesday
Digital World to Real World?
The digital revolution keeps going and picking up pace: "YouTube serves up 2
billion videos a day. Twitterers tweet 750 times a second. Internet traffic is
growing by 40% a year. The internet has morphed into a social medium. People
post 2.5 billion
The Evening Eudemon
Have you made it over to Keith Rothfus' site [http://www.keithpa4.com/] to make
a donation? He's being outspent 7-1 by his opponent. If you have a second, and
have a few dollars, please make a donation. I donated to Keith. It's the first
The Evening Twitter
Please, NFL. Bag the pink. Nice thought, but obnoxiously over the top and
screams hollow do-good exhibitionism.