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Eric Scheske
The Wednesday Eudemon
Flannery
Conservative Catholics can't get enough of Flannery O'Connor. At First Things
this week: Review/essay of Brad Gooch's Flannery: A Life of
Flannery O'Connor.
[http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2009/08/flannery-without-the-faith]
Nicely done. Excerpt:
> Gooch traces
Tuesday Patchwork
Questioning Abe?
I've been following this guy
[http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/SouthernAvenger/archives/2009/08/22/the-nyts-on-lincoln-giving-license-to-rape]
off-and-on for a few months now. A southern boy who writes for, among others,
the Greek Taki. I pretty much agree with
Monday Miscellany
Sticking It to the Middle Class
"Budget cuts have hit public colleges hard, even as the demand for a
well-educated workforce soars
[http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/08/19/budget-cuts-take-toll-on-education_print.htm]
." That's the headline from
Something for Sunday Morning
"Apart from knowledge of his Creator, every man is but a brute."
St. Jerome
Brews You Can Use
Helping Weather the Recession
These gents have performed a nice public service. Scary at parts, but a nice
service nonetheless: Cheap Booze Taste Test
[http://www.zug.com/live/82078/Crappy-Consumer-Reports-Cheap-Booze-Taste-Test.html]
. Some of the best booze pictures I've seen lately and
Thursday
'Bout Freakin' Time, Warren
In case you missed it yesterday, Warren Buffett finally jumped off cheerleader
mode [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/opinion/19buffett.html?_r=1&ref=opinion]
. He even let the great secret behind fiat money
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money]
The Wednesday Eudemon
The Disappearing Art: Doing Nothing
While sitting on a bench outside a shop in Potemkin Bavaria
[http://www.frankenmuth.org/] last weekend, I reached for my iPhone. I had 10-15
minutes to kill while my wife and children shopped, so I thought I'd do some
Internet surfing,
Tuesday
Modest Man Rides Again . . .
and again, and again, and again, and again, and . . . .
[http://nymag.com/news/politics/58199/] "Since occupying the White House, Barack
Obama has hosted fifteen town-hall meetings; appeared in more than 800 images on
the White House Flickr photo-stream; and held four prime-
Monday Moanin'
Long Weekend
Another weekend, another weekend spent. This one, in Frankenmuth, the annual
Summer Music Festival. It's a nice-enough weekend, but I feel like the
impecunious father who spends a lot of money on a flat-screen TV for his kids.
Nice gesture, yes, and his kids