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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

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

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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