Eric Scheske

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From the Notebooks

Premise: Security hurts. The more security you seek, the slower, more inefficient, costly, and duller that area of your life becomes. Check your stove five times: Slower leaving the house. A bureaucracy makes sure everything works uniformly: Inefficient (and dull). Military might: Costly. This doesn't mean security isn&

No Eudemon

No time for blogging today, but want to take a moment to say I'm stunned at the increasing lack of neutrality among the mainstream press in this election year. The mainstream press has always been ensconced in left, but they used to be clandestine in their approach. Not

Obama and the Wall

" . . . the more I'm galvanized to vote for McCain." Check out the most-recent Obama phoniness [http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2008/07/obama-has-received-his-reward.html] .

Tuesday Miscellany

Better late than never. Nick Milne [http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/tagged-by-thunder/] tagged me while I was on vacation. The rules: > 1. Link the person(s) who tagged you 2. Mention the rules on your blog 3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours 4. Tag 6

Monday Miscellany

Marcel LeJeune at Aggie Catholics calls it a "masterpiece [http://marysaggies.blogspot.com/2008/07/humanae-vitae-and-catholic-church.html] ," I suspect he's right: The Vindication of Humanae Vitae [http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6262]. Taking Marcel's lead, I'll summarize the article

Saturday

I don't get overtly political on this blog very often, but the Obama foreign tour is sticking in my craw. Consider this morning's AP story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080726/ap_on_re_eu/obama] about visiting Europe: > Obama said he and [Prime

The Wednesday

Maybe I should resort to kidnapping: An Italian man has been charged with kidnapping after he forced his ex-girlfriend into his home to do the ironing [http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=cce7c5f9d55442c7b8aeafa5e07cafe5&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=

Detroit

Here's a blog worth visiting if you're from Michigan: Detroitblog [http://www.detroitblog.org/]. It's neat, but it's hard to explain why it's neat. It celebrates a broken city, and it doesn't hide the decay. In fact, it

Saturday Stuff

Company weekend. Marie's brother is taking his sons (7 and 9) to Kalamazoo's Air Zoo for a cub/tiger scout outing. He dropped off his wife and daughter at our place last night. He's coming back today. I mention it because Andy read the

Tuesday Trifles

Dalrymple has written a short piece about Spitzer and morality in the public sphere [http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0314td.html]. It contains fundamental truths that anyone interested in morality and law needs to understand. It'll take you three minutes to read. Excerpt: > [M]an is a