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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Bernanke in Doubt?

But he's the Time Man Person of the Year!? Skies darken for Ben Bernanke nomination [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30759.html]. > Six Republicans and one Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday against Ben Bernanke's nomination to a second four-year

BYCU

Drink your Christmas tree, or something like that: Spruce beer [http://brewery.org/brewery/cm3/recs/07_44.html] and pine beer and liquor [http://www.bevlaw.com/bevlog/fmb/pine-liqueur-pine-beer-fir-brandy]. The only brewery in a Michigan state park. "The beautiful Tahquamenon Falls Brewery

Thursday

Dispatches from Extreme Economics Should we start looking for weapons of mass destruction again? "Remember all that pooh-poohing when the gulf states were talking about their own currency? About how silly that would be? That it would never happen? Yeah well, sort of looks like it might."

99% Opposed

to raising the debt ceiling [http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2009/12/11/support-raising-federal-debt-ceiling/] . Cast your vote.

Wednesday

My children had a Christmas concert last night, and I need to get to the office early today (because I have to leave early for my son's out-of-town basketball game). I'm crunched on both ends: busy at work, busy with holiday/family functions. I

Tuesday

The Amero I've been hearing Amero rumors for over a year now, way back in the halcyon days of the Bush II White House. I always wrote them off as wild conspiracy-type stuff. And maybe they are, but The American Conservative blog has given the rumors a

Monday

Gosh, Give Me a Break As people get older, they get more serious. That seems to be the general consensus. That was my opinion . . . until I got older. When I was younger, I would wring my hands over all sorts of things, but now I'm much more inclined

Something for Sunday Morning

"Blessed are we when we know how to bring peace to the afflicted, when we serve as instruments of unity of unity in our families, among our workmates and in all those we meet in the course of our daily lives. To put this vitally important commitment into practice,

Brews You Can Use

Tip This Season to be Jolly Looking for a unique idea for your Christmas gathering? Buy a couple of cases of different Christmas beers. You can find lists all over the Internet, like this one [http://beer.about.com/od/beerrecommendations/tp/10WinterBeers.htm], though with names like "Samichlaus&

Thursday

Twitter Heard on this podcast [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/12/mcardle_on_debt.html]: 3/10s of Americans who earn more than $100,000 a year live paycheck-to-paycheck. For people who make less than $100,000, the majority live paycheck-to-paycheck. Grammar query: Should "