Eric Scheske

> Whаt a difference 26 years makes. Shanghai in 1987 and 2015 pic.twitter.com/h9bMs0d5AL [https://t.co/h9bMs0d5AL] > — History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/972559725475790853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

> Instant CTE @Starting9 [https://twitter.com/Starting9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/5Dm9jODQeI [https://t.co/5Dm9jODQeI] > — Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/972620649188462592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

The Dance Neareth We're not a big TV family so we have only two, but the NCAA Tournament requires maximum screens, so Max and I used the first night of our bachelor weekend to do a dry run. By placing the screens an inverse distance from the couch

This week in England, a worker at a factory that makes Coca-Cola cans was caught urinating into the cans. But Coke quickly dealt with the situation by putting a Mountain Dew label on it.

Brews You Can Use I wrote last year that red wine is a good Lenten drink, but I can't get away from the gin and tonic. I'm going dry for the next eight days, so it doesn't really matter right now, but I need

Miscellaneous Rambling Some fun-read stuff by Mark Steyn on the Oscars [https://www.steynonline.com/8510/inclusion-riders-showbiz-apocalypse]. The point I particularly liked: Hollywood has always been political; the Oscars have always been political. But now, it's just preening and virtue-signaling. It used to take a little bit of

Midweek Rambling Why does Diet X work for some people and not for others? Why does that worker get an occupational disease but his co-worker doesn't? The answer: Genetics. DNA. Now, regular TDE readers know I claim no expertise--or even an average amount of knowledge--when it comes to

More Miscellaneous Rambling Can someone help explain to me the efficacy of group discussions? To me, unless there is an acknowledged group leader with a better grasp of the subject matter than the participants, group discussions are merely the blind leading the blind. I didn't like them in

Miscellaneous Rambling I've started to experiment with the plastic cloches [https://www.maximumgreens.com/products/batawa-protective-plant-bell-10-pack]. I planted bush peas, mache, radicchio, mizuna, kohlrabi, and other cold-hardy crops in containers yesterday, watered, then covered with the cloches. We'll see. I only used old seeds, taken from

> This list of reаsons for аdmission to a lunatic asylum in the 1800s reads like a list of potential metal band names. pic.twitter.com/HFJlr4HTzr [https://t.co/HFJlr4HTzr] > — History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 4, 2018 [https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/970262837691023361?ref_src=twsrc%