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Eric Scheske

The man who averted a nuclear holocaust

I guess this story came out last month [http://maltastar.com/pages/msfullart.asp?an=15214]. I missed it. One of the most amazing (and scary) things I've ever read. Via [http://dprice.blogspot.com/2007/10/commit-this-name-to-memory-stanislav.html].

Friday and Brews

My plans yesterday: Greektown Casino in Detroit with my brother, crash in Greektown, get up at 6:00 a.m. and be in Kalamazoo by 9:00 a.m. Friday. My day yesterday: Four Winds Casino [http://www.fourwindscasino.com/] in New Buffalo with my Dad, drinking club for a

Horror Article

I don't have much today. Long story short, I had an excellent day and evening planned today, but it fell through. I also didn't feel good yesterday and was exhausted at the end of the day. The result, I felt existentially lousy (some might call it

The Wednesday Eudemon

I missed this scary story last month: An 82-year-old Argentine woman who attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has died as a result of heart problems. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7056672.stm] The article doesn't

Tuesday Trifles

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as long as it's not beholden in Philadelphia: Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_

Monday Miscellany

Don't live here: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles. [http:

Something for Sunday Morning

"No one should be so active as not to seek the contemplation of God." St. Augustine

Something for Saturday

I don't know if I'm proud or embarrassed, but the description ain't unfair, though "one of the literati" is a stretch (ain't never read much of Melville or Conrad or a host of other of them fundermental reads): What Kind

Tornado and Brews

I crashed early last night, around 8:45, and zonked out. At 9:30, the town's tornado siren (which can also serve as a nuclear attack siren and 5:00 drinking time notice), went off. I helped bundle the three smallest downstairs, while yelling to the two middles

Rand

Charles Colson on the philosophy of Any Rand [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0247.htm]. It's a pretty good overview. A bit harsh, but not unfair. There is something obscene about Rand's philosophy (as I understand it), but it can't be denied that