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Eric Scheske

The Gift

A client once bought me a three-month subcription to the Beer of the Month Club. Two six-packs a month for three months. I kept one from each six pack. . . except one, which was particularly good. These five decorate a shelf at my law office. -- Mobile post

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Thick Bones for Me Don't drink for the health of it. That, Chesterton observed, is the true road to insane drinking. But if you're the type that needs a healthy upside to everything, grab a beer: "A study of 2,471 men and postmenopausal women

Jouvenel Corner

Country Boys "[T]he egoism of Power profits by public insecurity." On Power, p. 142. Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bush II, and now Obama. All used public insecurity to bolster the federal government's power. And once the crises pass, the means to deal with the crises

Wednesday

Here, Drink This Baby Bottle of Red Dye Is it me, or is there something wrong with this picture (emphasis mine): "Doctors at five sites in England are comparing vaccines from two manufacturers to see which works best and has fewer side-effects. Over the next two weeks 1,

Tuesday

Sword of Damocles? "Amherst [Securities] estimates this massive overhang at seven million units. That's the equivalent of 135% of a full year's existing-home sales and chillingly greater than the 1.27 million units that made up the overhang in early 2005, when the housing

Monday Moanin'

Val-de-ri Val-de-ra This article [http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/25/news/economy/Americans_on_the_move/index.htm?section=money_latest] says Americans are taming their wanderlust. I find that highly doubtful. It's a lamentable trait, but one that has marked American since

Something for Sunday Morning

"God is not some distant stranger. He shows us his face in Jesus." Benedict XVI

Misc.

Received in an Email Touching Stories I was walking through the cemetery this morning and saw a guy crouching down behind a tombstone. I said, "Morning." He said, "No, just taking a ****". When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new

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Oktoberfest pictures [http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-46860.html].

Boating 1850s Style

Earlier this month while at the drinking club, I watched some Amish take their boat out of the lake . . . by backing their horse down the boat ramp. I snapped pics. The camera phone didn't do a great job, but I think the "silhouette-effect" looks pretty