Eric Scheske

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Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. Greatest Essayist Alive If you haven't read a collection of Joseph Epstein essays, you're unenlightened or you've been deprived or you have a life outside of literary pursuits. Hopefully, the latter,

Risk Taking

Rage in the Manhattan Cage I saw a piece from New York Magazine making cyberwaves last week, but I decided not to post about it until I had a chance to read it. I read it during my nephew's baseball game on Saturday: The Wail of the 1%

Traitors and Dead Horses

Lead Story FBI's newest 'Most Wanted' terrorist is American [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_domestic_terrorist]. Great headline, that. But when you actually read the story, you quickly discern that the headline is misleading: > A fugitive

Tuesday Miscellany

New Chesterton books that I hadn't heard of until last weekend: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I: Non-Fiction [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604591579/thedailyeudem-20] and The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton [http://www.batteredbox.com/GardnerMartin/FantasticFictionChesterton.htm]. The first is merely a commercial

Wednesday Miscellany

Whew, things have exploded around the office. After the October 2008 Stock Crash, things really slowed down at the office. I was always busy (thankfully), but it was a leisurely-paced busy. Enjoyable busy, if not as lucrative. But now, it feels like pre-2008 Crash again. It's a good

Tuesday Miscellany

A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]. > We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of a

No Blogging Saturday

Why one African-American Christian won't vote for Obama [http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/huntleybrown.asp]. __________ George Weigel has written the best article I've seen on the whole Obama Catholic mess [http://www.newsweek.com/id/163896/page/1]. From the conclusion: > Biden is not

Tuesday Miscellany

Nice day yesterday for the portfolio. How long will it continue? I'm just hoping long enough to get my money back. I'm not optimistic in the long run. From Ron Paul yesterday in Slate [http://www.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2008/10/13/sickness-unto-debt]: > In

Harlem

For the past couple of years, I have kept a volume of Daniel Boorstin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Boorstin]'s trilogy, The Americans, at my side. When you sit back and consider the amount of details and facts he puts in, seemingly effortlessly (which, of course,

The Saturday Eudemon

This kind of thing fascinates me: One of South America's few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm]. I thought you'd have to go to New Guinea,