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Eric Scheske

The Evening Eudemon

The Ignorance of the New Yorker - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily http://mises.org/daily/4717 As Oscar Wilde put it more than a hundred years ago, “there is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us

Tuesday

Fahrenheit 451 to Gold. Connection Somewhere "Wells would have had man usurp the throne of God. Bradbury's hope is that man will let God work through him; it is not the dead universe which is divine, but 'God fleshing himself in sentience'--the living God

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Albert Jay Nock and the Libertarian Tradition - Jeff Riggenbach - Mises Daily http://mises.org/daily/4689 Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.

Monday

iPad Review I bought one ten days ago. It's really cool, but I'm not convinced it's worth the price. It doesn't do one key thing that I was told it would do (see below), but it does a lot of neat stuff.

Max's First Lions Game

Something for Sunday Morning

"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance." Blessed Cardinal Newman

The Evening Eudemon

In case you missed it: "Alan Greenspan spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today, and what was his advice? That central bankers should be doing what these columns, among others, have been rattling on about, namely that they should be paying attention to gold. “Fiat money has

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From The Economist. On the dispute about whether to let the rich retain their tax cuts: "The irony in this drama is that the money at stake is, in the larger scheme, trivial. Raising taxes on the top 2% of households, as Mr Obama proposes, would bring in $34

Friday

Drunk and Driven I'm thinking about becoming an alcoholic. Beer and wine are my favorites, so I'll drink a lot of them. I don't like hard liquor, but I'll drink it if that what it takes to realize my ambition. Unlike some

The Evening Eudemon

> Someone forgot to tell gold to crash today. The spot price for the next true currency, and self-imposed non-Fiat standard, was at $1,277, a fresh all time high, as it prepares to take out the stops at $1,280, which would send it promptly over $1,300. As