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Eric Scheske

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.

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,

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_

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

Something for Sunday Morning

. . . "'he went about doing good' . . . This is an appropriate summary of Christ's life on this earth. This should be the description of the life of every baptized person since our lives are subject to the influence of the Holy Spirit. This ought to be so

Neuhaus

I turned on my computer and saw that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus died yesterday [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/us/09neuhaus.html]. Fr. Neuhaus' Naked Public Square was one of the first "adult" books I read as I started to take an interest in politics,