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Eric Scheske

From the Notebooks

Merleau-Ponty's theory of art, according to Richard Kearney: "Paintings or poems are not just creative expressions for their authors. They also require audiences. The significance of a work of art, consequently, is not something fixed once and for all by the artist or passively consumed by

Wednesday

Miscellany I guess the Vatican is (justifiably) disturbed by the message behind James Cameron's Avatar [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/vatican-slams-avatar-prom_n_419949.html] . The newspaper said it "gets bogged down by a spiritualism linked to the worship of nature." I

From the Notebooks

Investment Decision: Dying White Guys or Growing Non-Whites? "If the growth rate of per capita income . . . between 2003 and 2050 remains as it was between 1973 and 2003--averaging 1.68 percent annually in Europe, the United States, and Canada and 2.47 percent annually in the rest

Monday

Tiger, Brit, and Kerouac A lot of people are upset about Brit Humes' advice to Tiger Woods last week ( linked here at TDE [https://thedailyeudemon.com/12531/]). "Post media critic Tom Shales put him in the category of a 'sanctimonious busybody' engaged in 'telling people

Something for Sunday Morning

“Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.” Lactantius

Brews You Can Use

I assembled this post while watching the BCS championship game last night. I was using my laptop, so I didn't have my normal assortment of beer bookmarks. I was reduced to surfing naked (sorry, no pics) The results weren't bad: Beer News Dot Org [http://beernews.

Thursday

All Show, No Substance You want to see how grotesque national politics has become? Check out this passage from an AP story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100106/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul] (emphasis added): > Pelosi and four committee chairmen met with the president Wednesday

Wednesday

Grant a Bull An economics writer I trust is bullish. That, according to New York magazine. I like NYM, but I don't trust it. Awhile back, I remember they wrote about the sense of public service that prompts Goldman Sachs to require its executives to take government job

Tuesday

Calamity Insurance What percentage of your investments should be in precious metals? Of that percentage, should you count gold-mining stocks? Those are questions I struggle with. I don't really have any good benchmarks, but I've heard "no more than 10%" offered by mainstream

Monday

Commentary on the Never-Ending Economic Crisis I hardly consider myself a neo-con, but their flagship publication, Commentary, has some awfully good stuff occasionally. In the January 2010 issue, David M. Smick dissects the current monetary and public debt mess in great detail [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/