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Eric Scheske

300 Million

The U.S. will hit 300,000,000 people [http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html] today or tomorrow. Let the misanthropes mope. The rest of us can be happy and ask, "If more people means less wealth to go around, why are Americans richer than ever?"

CBGB

Well, CBGB closed. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/music/16cbgb.html?_r=1&ei=5094&en=5774c0b5de8bbecb&hp=&ex=1160971200&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1160977069-+iD1B1aYMJICh7sGqX++GA] . I'm sad. I'd

Sign Me Up

A watch that lets you know when your wife is fertile [http://www.ovwatch.com/]. Anything to make NFP easier is appreciated. Lots of guys say it's easy. I say (i) they're delusional, or (ii) they've been married fewer than six years. It'

Evicted

Anyone got a lead on good housing in SW Michigan? I asked my wife what she was going to get me for Boss' Day, and . . .

Brews You Can Use: Monday Edition

Oh man. This sounds nasty [http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=517586]: > Miller Brewing Co. is launching a new chocolate-flavored brand for the holiday season as the company seeks to capitalize on the growing thirst for craft and specialty beers. (This story couldn't wait until

The Non-Story?

Here's the lead grabber: > Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of U.S. households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times. > The American Community Survey, released this month

Something for Sunday Morning

> The senses, the memory, and the imagination must be guarded, not only against things which are a direct temptation to sin, but against everything which may engage the mind in passing interests when it should be bent upon the unseen realities. Ths intellect too must be called off from

A Reader Writes

One of my most astute readers questions my post about President Grant: > Where did that piece about Grant come from??? Grant was born in 1822, was 41 in 1863 and, at that time, was commanding the Union forces besieging Vicksburg. Incidentally, his wife's name was Julia Dent.

Raising Daughters

Doug Giles has a good series going: Raising Girls that Pimps and Thugs Will Hate. [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles]. Good stuff. It's revolves around a list of ten suggestions. Excerpt from first column [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2006/09/30/raising_girls_that_pimps_

Dreher

Strange days indeed. Two days ago, Rod Dreher wrote a lengthy piece about his conversion to Orthodoxy. When I checked the post yesterday, he had received over 250 comments in his com box. I didn't read them (I read the first five, then stopped). He said some of