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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

My Son, the Duke My son leaves for Lansing tomorrow. The reason? "Youth in Government." He's spending four days at the Michigan capital to learn how government works. I'm pretty excited about it. I told him to take it seriously because (and this is

Humor

JIMMY FALLON: The Democrats are working overtime to get 216 votes to pass health care on Sunday, which means Rahm Emanuel is prowling the showers like the head of a prison gang.

Socialist Monday

Already Tired I have a confession: I write my Monday blog entries on Sunday. Haffta. There's too much going on Monday mornings to surf and post. But yesterday, I couldn't find much to blog about. Everything was about health care [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/

Something for Sunday Morning

"In dealings with one's neighbor, self-love makes us hyper-sensitive, inflexible, proud, impatient; it causes us to exaggerate our ego and our rights, to be cold, indifferent, unjust in our judgments and in word. One delights in speaking about one's actions, of one's insights

Brews You Can Use

They Know Pinot! Looking for the heartland of American wine? Thinking Napa Valley? Maybe, but try a little further to the northwest: Sonoma County [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_County_wine]. That's where you find the dark Pinot. You can read about it at Forbes [http://www.

Thursday

Cutting Into Soft Cheese There's a cheese crisis in France! Well, kinda. Cheese consumption increased during last year's recession, but not the right kind of cheese. Consumption of hard cheeses increased, due largely to the rise of pizza (Domino's Pizza increased sales by 31%

Wednesday

Who Is Gerard Casey? If you like podcasts, take a serious look (listen) to Mises Institute Media [http://feeds.mises.org/MisesMedia]. They're spitting out podcasts like the Beltway spitting out dollars, except many of 'em are high quality. I came home from work early last night

Tuesday

Stream of Consciousness TDE readers encouraged me. Blame them. Besides, I have to mention: CBS sucks. If you watched the Selection Show Sunday night, you know what I mean. It's a tradition for CBS to show teams celebrating when they hear that they've made the tournament.

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Monday

Stream of Consciousness Bracketology, bracketology, bracketology. I love the NCAA Tournament, but they need to ditch that term. It's gotten so bad, I don't even like the word "bracket" anymore. And what's with NCAA women's basketball? Talk about a project