Eric Scheske

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Elvis Wednesday

Another pre-programmed post: One of the best Elvis voice performances. He really nails it at the end (I could use a little less arm waving, but it's still good stuff): __________ Words whose meanings contradict one another: ”¢BILL ("monetary note" and "statement of debt") ”¢BUCKLE

From the Notebooks. Brownson

Quotes by and about Orestes Brownson (1803-1874): "Orestes Augustus Brownson is the Catholic thinker par excellence of the United States. There are no rivals." R.A. Herrera, Orestes Brownon: Sign of Contradiction, p. xviii. "Brownson believed he had ben put in a corner, defending his right to

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Of course, that cow can never get skinny since it can create its own fat, but still funny.

Wednesday Bullets

I must've missed the announcement: New political philosophy on web: Front Porch Republic [http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/]. It looks like it's dedicated to a lot of the ideas I promote here. Though I'm more of a quasi-anarchist (I like to call myself an anarchist

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

From the Notebooks

"[W]e who plague people with words are many nowadays, while those who teach or are taught by actions are very few." St. Maximos the Confessor on blogging "If we discovered paradise, some real estate [developer] would subdivide it . . . and in a year reproduce Los Angeles."

Tuesday Miscellany

Hell freezes over: The devil's in the details, but it looks like Obama's willing to let the automakers go bankrupt. I never thought he'd let that happen to his UAW constituency: The Obama's administration's leading plan to fix General Motors

Douthat

I hesitatingly renewed my subscription to New York Magazine last month. I really like the magazine, but it leans left and at times is too risque to have around my children. My first post-lapse issue came yesterday. One of its first features: A profile of the New York Times'

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

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