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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

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“Some men can learn almost indefinitely; their capacity goes on increasing until their bodies begin to wear out. Others stop in childhood, even in infancy. They reach, say, the mental age of ten or twelve, and then they develop no more. Physically, they become men, and sprout beards, political delusions,

The Evening Eudemon

“While unemployment for college grads is 15% according to Bloomberg, we know for a fact that the overall rate of unemployment, per economist John Williams of Shadow Stats, is actually at around 22%.” Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo15.1.html].

Monday

Monday Miscellany That's why I blog: Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another's food, movie and kitchen-design preferences than do partners who have been married or in committed relationships for a year or two, a new study finds. . . . Older

TEE

“With his prodigious talent, parents who loved him to bits, and a piano teacher named Marietta Clinkscales, Duke Ellington could only succeed”

Something for Sunday Morning

"Do not imagine that love to be true must be extraordinary." Mother Teresa

Friday

Brews You Can Use Maybe I'll become a renaissance man. An expert in everything: philosophy, theology, history, art, beer, finance, copulatory technique, dewey decimal system, chemistry, TV, electronics, fashion, web-page design. Even cooking. Heck, especially cooking, now that I've found the magic ingredient: beer. Beers

Thursday

Need the Book Roadmap? You know what's kinda hard? Starting a non-fiction book when you don't know what it's about. I recently tried it for the first time, inadvertently. I read an off-hand positive remark on a site I enjoy about The

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In Grand Rapids earlier this month -- Mobile post

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“In an effort to rush through thousands of home foreclosures since 2007, financial institutions and their mortgage servicing departments hired hair stylists, Walmart floor workers and people who had worked on assembly lines and installed them in “foreclosure expert” jobs with no formal training, a Florida lawyer says.” – Robo-signers:

The Evening Eudemon

“When friends called Charles Carroll ”“ the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence ”“ an “American Cicero,” it was the highest form of praise. Bradley Birzer notes this, by the way, in his very good new Carroll biography.” – ARCHBISHOP CHAPUT: Life in the late republic: The Catholic role in America