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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Thursday

From the Notebooks If it's possible to love a fictional philosophical character, I've loved one for many years. It's SÃ¶ren Kierkegaard's “knight of faith," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_of_faith] which he describes in the pioneering work of

Morning Bonus

> "On average, our basic food costs have increased by an incredible 48% over the last year (measured by wheat, corn, oats, and canola prices). From the price at the pump to heating your stove, energy costs are up 23% on average (heating oil, gasoline, natural gas). A little

Wednesday

Not much today. We held our pumpkin-carving family party last night. I'm whipped. I did, however, salvage enough time to read this neat little essay by Lew Rockwell: What We Can Learn From the Middle Ages [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/world-of-salamanca158.html]. The School

Tuesday

It's Not Just the Shortest Month of the Year I think black history month would do better if it promoted more stuff like this: biography of John Mitchell, the "Fighting Negro Editor" of the Richmond Planet [http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2010-07/Richmond.html]

The Evening Eudemon

Lynching reached its peak in the South in the early 1890s, when, on average, a black man was hanged every other day for alleged crimes that ranged from rape and murder to hitting a white man or even just writing an insulting letter. Link [http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/

Monday

Monday Miscellany Ah, that explains all the Judy Garland CD advertisements I've been seeing: " Facebook might be inadvertently outing its gay users to advertisers, according to a new study [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322916/Facebook-accidentally-outing-gay-users-advertisers.html#ixzz13B6XwRtM] ." Problem

Something for Sunday Morning

"Only humility seeks happiness and strength in God. One of the reasons the proud go after praise so avidly, and have an exalted opinion of themselves and resent anything that can bring them down in their own estimation or in the eyes of others, is the lack of inner

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“Ludwig: Before this rally in gold is over, would you venture to guess how high it can go? Schiff: I like to quote it in terms of the Dow, because you just don't know how much inflation there's going to be. So my target is for

Friday

Starbeers You want a buzz with your coffee? A Starbucks coffee shop in Seattle is test-marketing craft beer and local wines [http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/starbucks-beer/]. My first thought: The apocalypse is upon us, but upon reflection and further reading, it makes perfect sense. The energized crowd often wants

Thursday

Rapt For months, I've been meaning to blog about this excellent book: Rapt, Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher. It's full of common-sensical insight, which means, "Observations that most of us probably knew about, but needed someone to point out." Best