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Eric Scheske

Fall Colors

Niall Paul Krugman's bane, Niall Ferguson, is pretty daggone pessimistic about the U.S. future. Ferguson is one of the most-intelligent, yet common sensical, thinkers on the scene today . . . and he's an outsider (from the UK) and historian, so he might be a bit more

Weekend pics

Preying (sp?) Mantis in our garden last weekend. -- Mobile post

Tuesday

Greenspan Repenting? After inflating the monetary supply relentlessly and serving as the minion of DC and Wall Street masters, the former gold-standard proponent and Ayn Rand devotee Alan Greenspan [http://www.adabyron.net/taemag_com_greenspan.htm] has been making more sense lately. He was recently quoted as saying,

Monday

Breitbart Who is ACORN's scourge, the lion of the online right, Andrew Breitbart? He's 40, went to Tulane, grew up in Hollywood, worked for Drudge, knows Huffington, had a conservative awakening when he was 22, and hates the relentless left-wing bias of the MSM. The

Something for Sunday Morning

“As much as you watch over your mind carelessly, by so much you will become distant from Jesus.” Hesychius of Jerusalem

Brews You Can Use

Mild Climate and Good Beer I've never had a hankering to move to a warm weather area. I'm a Spring and Fall guy: 65 degrees and sunny, that's me. The only warm climate city that has ever appealed to me is San Diego. For

Spooky Post

Sexy Halloween If you haven't heard, Halloween is number two. At almost $7 billion a year in sales, Americans are spending more on Halloween than on any other holiday except Christmas. Want a 2-foot-tall zombie that pulls off its head? You can get it for $100.

Tuesday

Making Fun of The One? The comedians are supposedly beginning to make jokes about Obama [http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/latenight-comedians-turning-obama-20091011] . That's gotta be hard for them, like joking about one's own mother, but maybe they're

Monday

Five Twitters 1. Niche blog of the month goes to: Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog [http://www.brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/]. If you enjoy alliteration, you might call it a "Nietzsche niche for fans of the nephalistic nullifidian." Via [http://philosophybites.com/]. My digital friend Nick Milne once

Something for Sunday Morning

"There is never a moment when there is not some virtue to be practiced." de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence.