Eric Scheske

Drudge "reviews" Pat Buchanan's new book [http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpjb.htm]. If memory serves, the two are friends. But no matter: I like Buchanan, and I line up more with his thinking than I do the neo-cons that are currently in power. Unfortunately, based on

. . . It's worse than I thought: > James Billington, the head of the Library of Congress, told me about a report estimating that digital information equivalent in scale to the contents of all the library's books is produced by the world's computers every fifteen minutes.

Mark Steyn comments on a familiar theme of this blog [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/softened-state-is-infantilization-of.html] : > “When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do,” writes Charles Murray in In Our Hands, “ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the

Whew! I'm back. My third vacation of the year. I got back a few hours ago, and found everything--my house, my office, my blog--in order. It was a good feeling. I spent the week near Alpena, Michigan, which is in the northern part of Michigan's lower

It's the feast day of St. Sarah. Yes, Sarah of the old testament. Catholics and Greek Orthodox recognize all sorts of OT saints, like Jeremiah, Abraham, and Isaiah.

It's Friday, so what the heck: Notable events that happened under the influence of alcohol (courtesy of The New Book of Lists): Hanging of Captain Kidd Boston Tea Party Nat Turner Rebellion Inauguration of Andrew Johnson Lincoln's Assassination Battle of Little Bighorn Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous

I'm no Woody Allen fan, but a few of these quotes are pretty funny: "[Intellectuals] are like the Mafia. They only kill their own." "The prettiest [girls] are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God."

Reminder: Blogging is light this week, due to family and fun commitments.