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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Tuesday

Happy Prose Okay, so I'm supposed to have a smile on my prose. That was a tall self-imposed order. Fortunately, the pessimistic Lew Rockwell bailed me out. He penned a large piece that he posted yesterday: The Killing and Reviving of the American Dream [http://www.lewrockwell.

The Evening Eudemon

“As St. Augustine noted in City of God, Roman success was built not just on greed, pride and violence. It also flowed from the early Roman virtues of piety, austerity, courage, justice and self-mastery. For Augustine, these virtues had an unfortunate and self-defeating basis in paganism. But in

Monday

Twitter Another Lions game yesterday. I would never attend two NFL games in one year (my preference: one every 3-4 years), but my boys got free tickets to the first game I attended a month ago, and these tickets were ordered before the free tickets. Although I didn'

Old Tiger Stadium

Jack, Michael, and Max on the pitching mound at old Tiger Stadium. Other pics from old Tiger Stadium earlier today.

Something for Sunday Morning

“Thoughts gather about the soul according to its underlying quality.” The Philokalia

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But when you recall that one of the first moves by Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler was to outlaw individual ownership of gold, you begin to sense that there may be some connection between money, redeemable in gold, and the rare prize known as human liberty. - Howard Buffett (Warren Buffett'

The Evening Eudemon

“The teacher's unions are a menace and an impediment to reform. But politics aside, it takes only a short tour through some of the country's failing schools to see that reform is desperately needed.” – “Waiting for Superman”: Sadder than fiction | The Economist (via Instapaper) “The statistics

Friday

Ring the Bell! I became a fan of Bell's beer about five years ago. It looks like I merely jumped on a big drunken bandwagon: "The beer business is apparently booming and Kalamazoo's Bell's Brewery is expanding just outside the city. . . Bell'

Thursday

I'm OK Depressed, You're OK Depressed I listened to an hour-long podcast with the author of The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons . It sounds like a great book and the podcast [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/09/

Wednesday

Random Good to know: “[T]he best way to survive in a falling elevator is to lie down on your back. Sitting is bad but better than standing, because buttocks are nature's safety foam. Muscle and fat are compressible: they help absorb the G forces of the impact.