Essay
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Eric Scheske
Buffetting Life's Storms
The Hymns of Jimmy Buffett
I started listening to Jimmy Buffett songs when I was in law school. Though I
was ambitiously studying hard so I could find work with a powerful law firm, I
was drawn to Buffett's music because it celebrates a radically carefree
lifestyle. As
Mini-Book Reviews
Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some
originals.
Freaks in History
The poor and freaks. They'll both always be with us. Barabbas was apparently a
freak, as was Caligula. What Origen did to himself was kinda freaky, too, but
out of respect, I
From the Notebooks
The Great Idiocy
“'Please understand that we are keen to move toward a market economy,' a senior
Soviet official whose responsibility had been to provide bread to the population
of Saint Petersburg in its communist days told economist Paul Seabright, ' but
we need to understand the fundamental
Something for Sunday Morning
"A temperate life is a life of mortification and joy. We shall often find
opportunities to practice mortification in the little things that allow our
reason to control our bodies and enable the soul to understand the things
relating to God. Interior mortification guides our imagination and memory by
Brews You Can Use: FTN Edition
Drinking Sense
Is that you vomiting in the corner from drinking too much? Did you bring your
three pre-schoolers to the pub? Do you have a knack for playing completely
inappropriate music (or no music at all) during a party?
If so, you might lack drinking sense.
“Drinking sense” is
Thursday Miscellany
Yikes, I own some MSFT stock: Google Inc., owner of the most-visited Internet
search engine, is developing a computer operating system based on its Chrome
Web
browser, taking aim at Microsoft Corp. in its strongest market
[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aTd2k.YdQZ.Y]. I
No Blogging Wednesday
Life takes me in a headlock. No time for blogging. Just one quick thing:
Gonna have to read it: B16's new encyclical on ethics and the economy, Caritas
In Veritate
[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html]
. Good
Tuesday
Rolling Stone v. Hudge and Gudge?
Interesting stuff over at Rolling Stone: Goldman Sachs has engineered every
major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do
it again. [http://sites.google.com/site/disclosuredelta/] It features one of the
best opening lines in magazine-writing
Monday
The Wrestler
I was home by myself Friday night after working eleven hours at the office by
myself (office shut down for holiday, but I had a mountain to move). I decided
to treat myself with a movie I'd been wanting to see since it came out last