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Eric Scheske

He Turns 16

My eldest, Alex, turns 16 today. I resolved to stop sending extensive birthday greetings to loved ones through my blog because it was getting too much of a hassle, plus I forgot once or twice, which made things uncomfortable when I came to bed at night (heh heh). But I&

Mini-Book Reviews

Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. Greatest Essayist Alive If you haven't read a collection of Joseph Epstein essays, you're unenlightened or you've been deprived or you have a life outside of literary pursuits. Hopefully, the latter,

Entertainment Wednesday

Not So Rotten Caine Ever since his performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels_(film)] with Steve Martin, I've liked Michael Caine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Caine]. I'll probably hear at some point that he's a

Dalrymple to Pandemics

Dalrymple Sighting Aye, at times my ignorance surprises even me. Dalrymple has written a great little book review/essay [http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0427td.html] about an author whose name doesn't even ring a bell: Paul Hollander, a man who "is not one of those

Risk Taking

Rage in the Manhattan Cage I saw a piece from New York Magazine making cyberwaves last week, but I decided not to post about it until I had a chance to read it. I read it during my nephew's baseball game on Saturday: The Wail of the 1%

Something for Sunday Morning

"Pride is utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness." John Climacus

Brews You Can Use

Bar Hopping with the Left My Dad used to subscribe to Esquire, but he said it simply turned too leftist for him (gentlemanly living for Communists?). Nonetheless, they have a good drinking page, which I stumbled across earlier this week: Esquire Drinks Database [http://www.esquire.com/drinks/]. It'

Taxes and Hitler

10% Marginal Rate; More Bennies Than UAW While trolling to update my law firm's blawg [http://sturgislawfirm.com/blog/], I ran across this story [http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/low-income-taxpayer.html#more]: > National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson announced today (IR-2009-

Traitors and Dead Horses

Lead Story FBI's newest 'Most Wanted' terrorist is American [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_domestic_terrorist]. Great headline, that. But when you actually read the story, you quickly discern that the headline is misleading: > A fugitive

Twitter Me . . . but Briefly

The evil of Twitter [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] : [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] > “Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists.” So reported the U.K.'s Daily Mail on April 14. Hardcore Register