Eric Scheske

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Friday

Brews You Can Use This might be the feel-good piece of the young month: One drink a day might be enough to stop dementia by flushing the brain [https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931893-400-one-drink-a-day-might-be-enough-to-stop-dementia-by-flushing-the-brain/] . You have to pay to subscribe to read the entire article, so I searched for similar

Thursday

Just this today: video of the produce site, as of Monday evening. The perimeters are buried (except the short east end, but that will hopefully be easy, if another load is strategically dumped by the wood chip guys). We now start burying individual beds and rows.

Wednesday

Miscellany Happy August. My youngest son (Max, of "MAXimum Greens") turns 15. Time marches on. Leftists want to change the Texas capital's name because Stephen Austin thought freed blacks would become vagabonds. American Thinker breaks it down [https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/the_pc_

Tuesday

More Miscellaneous Rambling Great idea: “Justice also requires that all of those in Church leadership who knew of the former cardinal's alleged crimes and sexual misconduct and did nothing be held accountable for their refusal to act thereby enabling others to be hurt." Bishop Michael Olson [https:

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Shew. It's been a whirlwind of activity since returning from Alpena. Mostly, garden stuff, but also work and family. Michael (#4) returned from a two-week mission trip to Mexico City, where he visited Our Lady of Guadalupe daily and played soccer with kids at the city

Saturday

> Alpena boardwalk, morning 7-26-2018 pic.twitter.com/KbIXIVoenf [https://t.co/KbIXIVoenf] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) July 26, 2018 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/1022497698770022401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I took my annual pilgrimage to Alpena, Michigan, returning Thursday evening. Alpena is a neat little city on the

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> "I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said." - William F. Buckley Jr. pic.twitter.com/p9xCN6JSZs [https://t.co/p9xCN6JSZs] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) July 27, 2018 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/1022658836828704775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

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Ah, yes, that would be a great channel: > A 24-hour Fast Food Brawl channel would probably stop me from cable cutting https://t.co/vCGIFL4f2T > — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 26, 2018 [https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1022629631122391041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Friday

I returned from vacation last night, greeted to news of a GDP blow-out and threatened bombings of Iran. For today, just this throwback to the Iranian hostage crisis:

Thursday

In his modern classic, The New Science of Politics, Eric Voegelin wrote about the tendency of modern political movements to throw the highest human efforts behind earthly progress and noted that the result is a sacrifice of the human spirit in exchange for earthly goods: “The more fervently all human