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Eric Scheske

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

The Return Eudemon

Whew, whatta trip last week. We had a great time and I'm thrilled that I finally got to see some of California, but I'm glad to be back. We left at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday and flew into San Francisco in the morning. We drove

Something for Sunday Morning

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks." St. Ambrose

Returned Home

Marie and I returned home from California at 4:30 this morning. We're dragging. Regular blogging will resume Monday. Thanks for your indulgence during this slow blogging period.

Lookin' for Some Strange?

Strange USA [http://www.strangeusa.com/]. Haunted house, UFO sighting, or other bizarre stuff near you.

Brews You Can Use

Drinkopedia [http://www.drinkopia.com/]. Over 12,000 drink recipes. __________ The news is dreadful: According to the Census, since 2006 we have been living in a republic where, for the first time in the history of the republic, Americans drink more bottled water than we drank beer. [http://www.frontporchrepublic.

From the Notebooks

November 2003 When I used to see large families (say, families with five or more children), the idea always creeped into my mind that one or more of the children are, for lack of a better term, expendable. That's not quite the right term, but let me illustrate