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Eric Scheske

Tuesday Slow Posting Day

Curmudgeonly Quotes [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1579126979/thedailyeudem-20] "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift. "The great thing about Glasgow is that if there'

From the Notebooks

A Futuristic History Many readers of this book have probably heard of the United States or its alternative name, "America." For many years, it reigned as the most powerful nation in the world, both economically and militarily. Like Rome (studied in Chapter Three), historians differ about when it

Something for Sunday Morning

"Sins that are easiest to amend bring the greatest punishment." St. John Chrysostom

Brews You Can Use

Gift Me One of the nicest small pleasures in life: the unexpected gift. Someone walks up to you and says, "Here, I got this for you." It happens to me about once a year. It's often a book, sometimes it's beer (the guy known

Thursday Scrambling

Busier than Phyllis Diller at the hairdresser's. No time for blogging. Just a few quick things: Weird Russian stuff, Episode 298,991: A Russian woman ended up in intensive care after restoring her virginity for the sixth time [http://mosnews.com/weird/2009/06/17/virginity/]. Odd penny

Wal-Mart Wednesday

Employment at Wally World Yesterday, the glory of managing a McDonald's. Today, the glory of working at Wal-Mart. EconTalk's podcast this week is an interview with Charles Platt, a journalist who "went undercover" and got a job at Wal-Mart [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/

Job Tuesday

Hand Me that Spatula! A writer sends out three hundred rÃ©sumÃ©s in response to job postings [http://www.esquire.com/print-this/best-job-searches-0709-2]. He got only eight interviews and only two real prospects: "I applied for about three hundred jobs. I applied to be a marketing designer at

Monday Miscellany

Evil Marriage I've harped on this point before [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=7874]: the marriage of big government and big business. The nuptials have been going on since the 17th century. It infuriated Belloc and Chesterton, and it ought to infuriate the rest of us, but we just

Something for Sunday Morning

"God makes use of little things to act in souls." Francis Fernandez

Brews You Can Use

Moose Drool? The best-selling craft beer in Montana: Moose Drool [http://beerreport.com/news/montanas-best-brown-ale]. The writer at the Beer Report calls it "a terrific and compulsively-drinkable beer" (and all of us non-winos could use a little more such compulsion). The LA Times named it November's