Eric Scheske

More Miscellaneous Rambling Alright, the worst part of January is over. The days are getting noticeably longer. We have a long way to go, but hang in there. I'm upbeat enough that I bought 6-mil polyfilm to drape over my coldframes. Supposedly, a double layer of film greatly

Miscellaneous Rambling So what was the point of Sunday's post? Precisely this: Twain was no racist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Civil_rights], but he put borderline-gibberish words like that into a black man's mouth for artistic effect. If you think we could do

Mark Twain: racist. The Golden Arm Once 'pon a time dey wuz a monsus mean man, en he live 'way out in de prairie all 'lone by hisself, 'cep'n he had a wife. En bimeby she died, en he tuck en toted her way

The whole idea of a "hate" crime is stupid, but why the hesitancy among non-normal people to acknowledge that the Facebook Four engaged in one? > What would have happened if four white kids from Donald Trump's native Queens had reacted to Barack Obama's

Brews You Can Use Since switching to hard liquor, hangovers aren't much of a problem for me. Sometimes the juniper in gin gets me, and once in awhile, rum throws a wicked hook. But mostly, I'm fairly hangover-free. But there was a time . . . whoa, there was

Miscellaneous Rambling The urban farm is moving along nicely. I'm still stymied in my effort to buy a simple, vacant lot, but I have my first batch of indoor crops started and am making progress on expanding my indoor grow operation. I plan to grow a lot of

First harvest of 2017.

Miscellaneous Rambling Well, the Big Ten goes out with a whimper. I couldn't believe how bad UM looked, and then OSU got humiliated by Clemson. It certainly takes the sting out of the OSU loss. I don't think there's any way Michigan would'

> Library : St. Basil The Great | Catholic Culture https://t.co/YYK0hKyyty > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/815939778407448576]

> 2016: The Year the Left Broke https://t.co/RRDuEt4DOa > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/815890714429128705] "While castigating white men for letting Trump happen, blacks rioted in the streets based on Facebook memes and Muslims murdered Americans in the name