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Eric Scheske

Autobiographical Corner

Autobiographical Corner To be a good coach, you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. I'm not a good coach. My team won the little league championship last night in a rout, beating the previously-undefeated regular

Baseball Wednesday

Jack and Michael play for the Little League championship later this afternoon. I have a lot to get done before heading over to the fields. No time for blogging. Please pray for our victory. Not just for Jack and Michael, but for the group of neat boys on their team,

Tuesday

Tuesday Twitter Revenge of the Fallen Last week, my older children and their cousins and uncles went to a late showing of Transformers II. Even though I liked the first movie, I stayed behind because (i) they wouldn't get back until almost midnight, which is almost two hours

Something for Sunday Morning

"Strive to acquire the virtues you think your brothers lack, and then you will no longer see their defects, because you yourselves will not have them." St. Augustine

Snope It

Snopes is one of my "go to" sites. Reader's Digest tells Snopes' story [http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/rumor-detectives-true-story-or-online-hoax/article122216.html] . Nothing remarkable, but still interesting. So how much does a niche website that

BYCU. Slow Posting Days Continue

A YouTube testament to craft brewing (over-done, but enjoyable enough . . . and it makes me thirsty):

Slow Posting Days Continue

Worth a plug: Libertarians for Life [http://www.l4l.org/]. Regular posting will resume in a few days.

From the Notebooks

Premise: The opening question that any political philosopher must grapple with: Can the state ever go past legendary King Pausole's one law: “Hurt no man, then do as you will.” If so, when? On the surface, this is an easy question to answer: If another person isn'

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