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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

The Thursday Eudemon

So, my fourteen-year-old jock nephew Dan Scheske enters a July Fourth three-on-three basketball tournament in Topeka, Indiana [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,_Indiana], a podunk town with a lot of Amish people, situated about thirty minutes from my house. He gets there and sees a

Happy Fourth

I hope everyone has a good Fourth of July. I'll spend the bulk of mine at the office, a payback for my extended leave. You know you're busy when you're looking forward to working on a holiday because "the phone won't

The Tuesday Eudemon

I'm surprised there aren't more stories of such confusion [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22009028-5012895,00.html]: > A bouncer at a popular restaurant in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighbourhood ejected a lesbian customer from the women's bathroom

Kirk

Russell Kirk is back in the news [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2007/07/russell-kirks-c.html]. The news centers around a debate about his religious beliefs. Whatta great opportunity for my egotistical self to post a link to my article about the matter [http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/

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

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

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