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Eric Scheske

Friday

Brews You Can Use Providing all the conversation fodder you need for your upcoming evening! Well, crud. The economy is forcing one of the greatest bastions of beer drinking--the English pub--to change its business model. They're now catering more to yuppies than hard-core drinkers. Link

Thursday

Gays, Gold, and Ganja Great: The number of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) characters on prime time U.S. television is growing, with 58 regular LGBT roles on network and cable shows this season. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100929/tv_nm/us_gay] . The reason? "

The Evening Twitter

"The US Mint has announced it has run out of one ounce Gold Buffalo coins: 'The United States Mint has depleted its inventory of 2010 American Buffalo One Ounce Gold Bullion Coins.'"

The Evening Twitter

Joe Kennedy claimed that he knew it was time to get out of stocks in 1929 when he received investing tips from a shoeshine boy." “Stage 3 of the gold rush is when the shoeshine boy tells you: Buy gold!” http://instapaper.com/z4thqln1r

Wednesday

Finally, I Post a Small Tribute to the Cardinal The puzzling Roger Scruton recently penned a borderline-beautiful tribute to Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University. Check it out [http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/17/the-idea-of-a-university]. Excerpt: > The university is a

The Evening Twitter

“The fed res doesn't want to create a hyperinflation. Bernanke may be incompetent, but he's not evil ”¦” http://instapaper.com/ztnohjn1m “I stress that in 1929 the debt to GDP ratio was of course minuscule in comparison what it is today”¦” http://instapaper.com/ztnohjn1m “These

Tuesday

Willmoore and More This article reminds me of Willmoore Kendall's observation that, contrary to the theory of America's open society, it was more of an American tradition to run a person out of town on a rail: America's history of religious intolerance [http://www.

Amen

Fr Dubay taught me a lot. May peace be his. “Word is just getting out that Marist Father Thomas Dubay passed away over the weekend. May He Rest in Peace.” – A Remembrance of Father Thomas Dubay | Blogs | NCRegister.com (via Instapaper)

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We should accept the truth of history, which is that white men have dominated intellectual life in the west. Let's not resist this; let's run with it. It is western history that has indelibly shaped our consciousness. We live in Britain, not Timbuktu. We might hail

Monday

Econ Monday My apologies for another econ post, but I suspect things are reaching a fever pitch right now, so . . . * * * * * * * I wrote on Saturday that it's probably time to get out of the market. The mad geniuses at Zero Hedge vehemently disagree. In this (perhaps unhinged) post, they&