Eric Scheske

> "This is THE most flawed way we could POSSIBLY rank college football teams and it's that flawed by a wide margin."@JoelKlatt [https://twitter.com/joelklatt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] sounds off on the CFP committee rankings: pic.twitter.com/SHixLFnntD [https://t.co/SHixLFnntD]

BYCU Well, I hope to be able to drink tonight. It's been a rough week, health-wise. Bad food poisoning Sunday night; 2.5 hours in a dental chair on Wednesday. I was barely among the living on Thursday, just going through the motions. I'm hoping to

All Saints Rambling Well, trick-or-treating is over: 25 years. Over. And I must say: I'm okay with it. I thought I'd be melancholy, but I guess that, after hauling seven kids around for a quarter-century, I got my fill. I would've been happy to

> "Trump knows that immigration was the single most significant factor in his election. To maintain good standing with his constituency, he must stop that caravan." https://t.co/DXmakoeJvB > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 31, 2018 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1057436997264887810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Food poisoning Sunday night. It was rough . . . really rough. I started to recover late Monday morning, but I was groggy the rest of the day. At least it gave me a chance to clean my study/office/library/gardening-supply-center/recording studio. I'm lobbying Marie to

Miscellaneous Rambling Quite an eventful couple of days. I just found out that I'm being sent to Las Vegas next month on business, which is cool. I'm staying at the Wynn, which would typically lie beyond my cost range but due to logistics, that's

> Russell Kirk's Ghostly Tales: Horror and Eternity (essay by Scott Beauchamp) https://t.co/rt81PwKRjL > — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) October 27, 2018 [https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/1056191353238052868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Prayer silences the chattering of me-centered existence, which is essential for the intellectual life.https:

Brews You Can Use Unwind. Brutal week at the office. It promised to be a light week, but that promise was broken by Tuesday afternoon. After I rolled into my house at 11:00 on Wednesday night, I decided to work half days on Thursday and Friday. I crashed for

Bullets Great, freakin' great: Dozens more breakfast foods test positive for trace amounts of weed killer [https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/health/breakfast-cereal-food-weed-killer-roundup/index.html] . Nifty piece. I might plug The Weekly Eudemon on all of them, just to see what happens. I suspect the users of

Midweek Rambling Wow, lots of speculations out there about The Caravan: Democrats are funding it, Soros is funding it, they're riding and not walking, Muslims have infiltrated it (reminding me of P.J. O'Rourke referring to people of a certain hard-to-distiguish skin color as "urine-colored