Eric Scheske

Sleep Trick I rarely fall asleep while listening to anything, but I've long used some sort of recorded narrative to get back to sleep after I wake up in the middle of the night. Marie once asked me why, and I said, "I listen to semi-boring stuff.

A man spoke to each of his three sons when he sent them to college. "I feel it's my duty to provide you with the best possible education, and you do not owe me anything for that. However, I want you to appreciate it. As a gesture

Lent and the Babylon Bee Welcome to Lent 2020. It's a season of penance, renewal, and grace. It don't get no better than that. Of course, it's also the season of the coronavirus, a collapsing stock market, and a Socialist front-runner, so maybe the

GoFundMe I'm a big fan of GoFundMe. As a rule, I try to donate at least a few dollars to any campaign that helps a person dealing with a mortal situation, as long as I have any corroborating evidence that the cause is legit. There are too many

Gnostics v. Metaxy, GMO v. Non-GMO, Athens v. Sparta [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2020/2/23/episode-64-gnostics-v-metaxy-gmo-v-non-gmo-athens-v-sparta] Gnosticism matters because it has heated up lately. Heck, that's an understatement. It was simmering in the 18th-19th centuries. It boiled in the 20th centuries. In the 21st century, it

Outlaw Drinking This is probably the most interesting alcohol news of the year: El Chapo is launching a beer . . . from prison. Technically, that's not accurate. His daughter is launching the beer [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-beer-el-chapo/drink-like-a-mexican-kingpin-el-chapo-beer-launched-by-daughter-idUSKBN1ZG04Z] , but she's capitalizing off his name and likeness.

Forms of Captivity Are those folks still quarantined on the cruise ship? No fear: Porn is here. Porn Company Offers Free Webcam Sessions To Quarantined Cruise Passengers [https://www.oddee.com/porn-company-offers-free-webcam-sessions-to-quarantined-cruise-passengers-51566/] . It's not often you see such magnamity and twistedness in one gesture, kind of like when

Geek, Red, Orange, Gay I don't know what Zuckerberg did, but he has really gotten George Soros' pants in a bunch (a sensation I'm guessing Soros hasn't experienced for over a decade now). Soros wants Zuck removed from control of Facebook [https://www.

Murder in Hollywood Hills Death is always tragic, but some deaths provide a lot of unfortunate humor material. "Playboy model-turned-Hollywood sex therapist Dr. Amie Harwick murdered by ex-boyfriend who threw her off third floor balcony' - two weeks after his restraining order expired [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/