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Eric Scheske

Tuesday Miscellany

I watched Idiocracy with my wife and older children on Saturday. It's the funniest dark comedy I've ever seen. The premise: a young man wakes up 500 years in the future and finds that America has dumbed down beyond belief. All of society engages behaves like

Something for Sunday Morning

"Gloominess does great harm to us and to those around us. It is a harmful plant that we must uproot as soon as it appears." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God

Brews You Can Use

Light drinking news this morning. Couple of reasons: I took my oldest children to Mall Cop last night (my rating: 5, but better than I though it'd be), with the result that I wasn't able to get a head start on this post last night. I

The Ignorant Non-Keynesian

That's me, walking a mile to the office in a charcoal gray topcoat in 5-degree Michigan weather, hat on my head, iPod headphones in my ears, my brows furrowed. More likely than not, I'm listening to a podcast about economics. Peter Schiff [http://www.takimag.com/

Tuesday Miscellany

So I was in charge of dinner Saturday evening. I picked Taco Bell, with a Hot-n_Now (regional fastfood burger franchise) for the non-Mexican eaters. Final damage: 8 hamburgers, 5 small fries, 10 regular tacos, 1 Mexican pizza, 1/2 gallon of milk, 1 liter of Mountain Dew, ten desserts

Something for Sunday Morning

Affability should be "the framework of human relationships . . .". It is "scarcely noticed, but when it is lacking it is greatly missed. . . . [W]e must take heed of the thousands of opportunities [to practice affability] that each day brings with it." Francis Fernandez

-17

I've never seen it this cold. Unbelievable.

Brews You Can Use

I subscribed to New York magazine last year on a lark. I've grown to greatly enjoy the provincial liberal rag. Its liberalism is more understood than preached . . . more of a worldview than a religion . . . so it's tolerable if occasionally nauseating. Anyway, I gleaned this drinking anecdote

American Idol

Long-time readers are (painfully) aware that I fall into American idiocy at this time of year. My family and I gather around Fox TV and shrink our collective IQs by 25 or so as we watch American Idol [http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-americanidol_0113gd.ART0.

From the Notebooks

One theory about the origin of homosexuality holds that it stems from a dysfunctional relationship with one's father. If a boy lacks the natural love of a father, the desideratum surfaces in a warped way later. I ran across the following piece of anecdotal evidence in a recent