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Eric Scheske

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

Something for Sunday Morning

"Peace is our final good." St. Augustine

BYCU

Buddery Slope to Water A TDE reader sends this along: "AB InBev's adjusted EBITDA in its North American division, which is mainly the U.S. market, rose 43% to $1.74 billion from $1.22 billion a year ago. In addition to cost-cutting, the brewer'

From the Notebooks

Much in modern Christological arguments strikes me as ridiculous. In these arguments, theologians try to figure out what Christ was like, given that he was a combination of God and man. I don't purport to comprehend the arguments, but from what I understand, there's higher Christology

Global Warming and Sundry

Calling Aesop Compelling piece from Time Magazine [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html]: > As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are

Tuesday Twitter

Twitter 3 Lousy Reasons to Consider an Antidepressant Medication [http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/brain-and-behavior/2009/08/06/3-lousy-reasons-to-consider-an-antidepressant-medication.html] . (1) You're a Detroit Lions fan. (2) You've ran out of beer and the grocery stores

Monday Moanin'

GKC Corner I'm often startled to see how many G.K. Chesterton people I see on the web. This last weekend, I was reading Touchstone [http://www.touchstonemag.com/], and I saw one of its contributors, Lydia McGrew, blogs at "What's Wrong with the World