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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

More Conspiracy Seeds So, a man on the inside comes forward and says, "The big boys are artificially manipulating the gold and silver markets." It's a fairly damning accusation, from a guy (I've been led to believe) with the credentials to make the allegations.

Monday

Dollars, Happiness, Mass, and More Oh oh: "The beneficial impact of last weekend's $1 trillion “shock and awe” intervention by Europe to save Greece and safeguard the Euro is fading-even more quickly than officials had feared [http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/05/15/232281/el-

Something for Sunday Morning

"Holiness means the eager acceptance of every trial sent them by God. . . It is the philosophers' stone that changes into gold all their worries, their troubles, all their sufferings." de Caussade, Abandonment. Whenever I fear that I'm getting too holy for my own good (chuckle)

Brews You Can Use

Grappling with Grapes My grape vines arrived yesterday. I opened the box and read the instructions: "After the plants are set, select the largest, strongest cane and cut it back so that two nodes or buds remain. Cut off all other canes." Great. What's a "

No Blogging Wednesday

Iron Man 2 with big kids last night. No time for blogging. Just these pics from our Mother's Day trip to the Lake Michigan dunes and Lunker's Fishing Store in Edwardsburg, Michigan (and its assortment of weird stuff).

Tuesday

Chartering a New Course? One of the best new ideas I've heard recently: Charter cities [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/04/romer_on_charte.html]. You find a host country, acquire some land, set your city limits . . . and set your own rules. If you make good rules,

Monday

Greece and Other Fun Stuff Best cover story title of the year so far: "Acropolis Now [http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16009099]," an article about the Greek debt crisis, from the May 1st issue of The Economist [http://www.economist.com/]. * * * * * Speaking of Greece:

Something for Sunday Morning

"[W]e cannot be really fed, strengthened, purified, enriched and made holy unless we fulfill the duties of the present moment." de Caussade. Abandonment

Friday

Neo-Prohibitionism in Different Shapes Mormon morality run amok? Big Brother Syndrome? Stupidity? Not sure, but I've never heard of anything like it before: Utah bar owners must run "an electronic scanner on driver licenses of anyone who looks 35 years old or younger. The penalty for

Thursday

Hubris IOU Some people are debt-averse. Others aren't. Why? Well, it's hard to say, but Nassim Nicholas Taleb recently pointed out that over-confident people take on a lot of debt. His words: "Nobody gave a thought to the idea that overconfidence translates 1-