Eric Scheske

According to this guy [http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2005/april/britains], the Nutshell is the smallest pub in England. "Weighing in at 15ft x 7ft, it seats about ten people with room for about another half a dozen standing. After this it becomes all very uncomfortable, or cosy,

A reader sent us the following humorous observation: > I have been watching some of the media coverage of JPII with much amusement. > It's amazing isn't it? Here we have a man who was born into a devout Catholic family in fervently Catholic country. He

May the Holy Father rest in peace. May the rest of us follow his example, which is nothing less than to follow Christ. The text of the homily is available all over the Internet, but here's a link [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=

Last month, we mentioned that Eric Scheske's daughter, Meg (4), still feared "the salami" that hit Southeast Asia in December. This evening, Eric ran outside to chase off two stray dogs that potentially threatened to attack his wife and two youngest. Meg came to the door,

Being from Michigan and a former Detroit Free Press paperboy and an occasional reader of Mitch Albom, Eric Scheske finds Albom's alleged fraud about MSU players meeting at a tournament game interesting. LINK [http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=9216]. The MSU column is vintage Albom:

We don't agree with all of it, but The Sunday Times ran a bold yet reasonably sane call for Catholic Church action in the coming years. Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1552217_1,00.html]. Excerpts: > The task of doing God's

While walking through the public library's IRS Tax Information Resources Center yesterday, Eric Scheske noticed that the IRS now provides taxpayers with free bookmarks. They contain happy faces and information about the IRS. Criminy, who'd want that as a bookmark? Opening a book is a relaxing

The Masters is here, and that means one thing: No Martha Burke. We'd forgotten about what may have been the last whimper of militant feminism two years ago this month, but the New York Times reminded us. LINK [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/06/sports/golf/06masters.

Why should they move? They don't trust the establishment and they have nothing better to do: "Seven weeks before release of the new 'Star Wars' flick, fanatics started lining up outside the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater this past weekend. But there's

Al Gore on Monday unveiled his new television network, "Current," which aims to attract younger viewers with short videos and a tie-in with the popular Google Inc. search engine. It's geared to 18-34 year olds and is going to have a serious theme: "