Eric Scheske
Brews You Can Use
Snake in a Beer
A friend dropped off a copy of Jackson, Wyoming's alternative newspaper: JH
Weekly. The cover story: Making Suds at the Base of the Tetons
[http://www.planetjh.com/news/A_105362.aspx]. It's a nicely-crafted (heh, heh)
piece, and they write
From iPhone surfing
"Sometime in the mid- to late-1980s, a letter-writer opined in the pages of the
Washington Post that President Reagan insulted women whenever he opened his
broadcast speeches with the words “My fellow Americans.” This letter-writer
proposed that Presidents instead use “My associate Americans.”"
http://cafehayek.
From the Notebooks
Some Belloc
All from The Path to Rome:
“[I]f there is difficulty it is in the whole launching of a thing, in the first
ten pages of a book, or the first half-hour of listening to a sermon, or the
first mile of a walk.”
“I will tell
Nutty Tuesday
ACORN
This ACORN stuff is absolutely hilarious, if it weren't for our President's
close ties. The couple on the left posed as a pimp and his prostitute. She's
believable. But him? Come on. When did Doogie Howser rip off the set of Joseph
and
Monday Miscellany
Flirting with Libertarians?
Thank goodness. From U.S. News & World Report: "Rising opposition to President
Obama's healthcare proposals may be morphing into something broader and deeper:
an anti-Obama movement that could jeopardize the president's political
standing,
damage the Democratic Party, and give the
Something for Sunday Morning
"Our life will have been worth something if and when we fall in love with
Christ."
Francis Fernandez
What?
I'd hate to mess with the giant that uses the big one:
-- Experimental mobile post
BYCU: "The Drinking Club"
I've referenced "the drinking club" many times, so I thought I'd post a few
pictures of it. From the side (and its least-impressive angle):
The view:
The most important part
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From the Notebooks
I distinguish between "wrongheaded progressive thinking" and merely "progressive
thinking." For all men should be progressives: wanting to improve man's lot,
physically and morally and spiritually. Such aspirations are good. Progressive
thinking becomes wrongheaded when it (i) disproportionately emphasizes one or
two of the