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Eric Scheske

The Eudemon Returns

If you hadn't surmised, I was on vacation last week. I won't bore you with details, but I will bore you with pictures and bullet narrative. Thursday, June 21, 2007 A multi-million-dollar business closing got postponed, so I left the office at noon, cleaned the house

Something for Sunday Morning

"Obedience is, in a way, the mother of all virtues." St. Augustine

Saturday

> [W]hen George Plimpton [acting on behalf of the NEA] paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of a single misspelled word "lighght," an Iowa congressional aide dared to ask the dilettantish Plimpton what the poem meant. "You are from the Midwest. You are

Some Belloc

The last half of the Chesterbelloc isn't nearly as quotable as the first half, but if I had to pick the book with most quotables, it'd be The Path to Rome. “[I]f there is difficulty it is in the whole launching of a thing, in

Brews You Can Use

My time away from a computer continues. Only two quick BYCUs today: 1. Drive Beer [http://www.drivebeer.com/]. Only 2.5% alcohol. MADD to endorse? 2 [http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/105406.html]. > You put the 20-ounce cup under the tap but instead of pulling a lever,

Something for Book Nerds

Geilor von Kaysersberg, writing in the early sixteenth century, divided bookish folly into seven types: 1. The fool who collects books for the sake of glory. 2. The fool who wants to grow wise by the consumption of too many books. 3. The fool who collects books without truly reading

The Slow Week Continues

Hilaire Belloc, commenting on the 21st-century euthanasia debate: > It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a just war, to execute a criminal, are just the people who are most likely to be in favour of '

Catholics for Ron Paul

A new blog site [http://catholicsforronpaul.blogspot.com/].

Ron Paul: Radical

He says radical things in an appealing way. Most intriguing [http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/013772.html]. I suspect he's the best shot we've had in 75 years to get a new philosophy into federal government.

The Thousand

1,000 films to see before you die [http://film.guardian.co.uk/1000films/0,,2108487,00.html]. I'll be lucky to see 50 of them, but it's a pretty neat list so far.