Eric Scheske

Of course, school isn't out in Michigan public schools yet. I believe the public schools are continuing their push for year-round schooling by gradually shrinking the summer vacation schedule. The reason? The breakdown of the urban family has resulted in home conditions that cause kids' learning

Brews You Can Use My youngest son told me earlier this week that beer commercials aren't allowed to show people drinking. I thought about it and thought, "Heck, he might be right. I don't ever recall seeing someone take a wig on an advertisement. Fricking

Whew. I've been busting it: Marie is in NYC for the week with Michael's senior leadership class, leaving me with a ton of work at the office, kid duties at home, and (of course) getting the urban produce operation running. Jack stepped up and helped me

Throughout this hectic spring, I have been squirrelling away occasional minutes to type notes for my "History of the Catholic Church in 30 Minutes" presentation this September. One of my goals that has developed is to give my listeners a sense of historical perspective. I always begged my

My son showed me these. They're great:

> Remember: gender is uniformly distributed on a 37-dimension fluid spectrum, but all religions are exactly the same thing > — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 4, 2017 [https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/871355792527577088]

Miscellaneous Rambling Michael graduated and had his last track meet on Saturday. Meg had her last soccer game last week. Max (partner in Maximum Greens, LLC) gets out of school this week and can take over more responsibilities. I think the carnage of everyday living is coming to a close.

Steyn on the London Bridge attack. His most prescient observation: "The cynical strategy of British and Continental leaders is to get their citizens used to this." Exactly. They won't do the only thing that can stop it: halt immigration and aggressively start deporting anyone who poses

Fitting morning headline for MAXimum Greens' first day at its produce stand: > Organic foods backed by landmark report - warning pesticides far more dangerous than was thought https://t.co/dHHRPl2hIO > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) June 3, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/870952128646443008]

BYCU Marie joined me after work yesterday at the production site. She is an exercise fanatic and hadn't gotten any exercise that day, so she felt like hauling compost, hoeing, raking, picking rocks, etc. We got there at 5:45, and I said, "Crud, it's