Miscellaneous

Youtube video goes viral. What does it show? A minor league hockey venue that charges $7 for a large beer and $4 for a regular beer . . . yet the two cups are the same size. Link [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/11/if-you-already-think-beers-at-sporting-events-are-a-ripoff-just-wait-until-you-watch-this-video/] . Self-righteous puritanism that says, "If

H.I.F. A reader sent this to me last summer: Colleges' Stealth Tax on Family Savings [http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-07-07/colleges-stealth-tax-on-family-savings] . It points out that colleges punish harshly families that save for education. Excerpt (he's comparing two students with identical grades/test scores and

From a TDE Reader: "Just recalled this after reading your D.H. Lawrence post - his poem "A Sane Revolution," which was on the inner cover of my older brother's Mott the Hoople album in the '70s." A Sane Revolution If you make

William Doino Jr. explains why it's possible and desirable [http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/02/chestertons-pursuit-of-holiness] : > Bishop Peter Doyle of Northampton, the diocese in which Chestertion lived, recently appointed a priest to investigate Chesterton's holiness, which could lead to the opening of his official

H.I.F. A Mormon's American rag reports on the conversion of a Swedish non-denom megachurch pastor to Catholicism [http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/10/non-denominational-megapastor-stuns-congregation-with-personal-theological-revelation/] .

H.I.F. "The Jews who fought for Hitler: 'We did not help the Germans. We had a common enemy [the Soviet Union].' But how do Finland's Jews feel today about their uneasy - and little mentioned - alliance with the Nazis?" Link [http:

H.I.F. "The author of An Inconvenient Truth has swelled his net worth to about $100 million, largely due to his investments in green energy, after being worth less than $2 million during his time as Vice President, The Washington Post reports." Leftist Huffington Post (2012) [http:

I have a gmail account that receives all sorts of TDE leads from readers, friends, and/or family (if you're interested in this inside email address, it's top secret: ericscheske@gmail.com). I've always kept it "clean," either using items sent to

Rush Limbaugh and other establishment Republicans better get started now and declare this guy a nut, dangerous, and un-electable: "Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky resoundingly won the straw poll at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, cementing his status as among the favorites to capture the next

My son is taking an "extreme climate" course at U of M. I told him about my last blog post. He told me that the issue of global warming is the subject of "climate science," which isn't the same thing as "weather science.