Eric Scheske

Random Welcome to Black Friday. If you're reading this, you realize you have better things to do today than to rip our your soul in order to save $250 on a big-screen TV. Congratulations. This is basically a four-day holiday for me, so I don'

“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” G.K. Chesterton “Gratitude is characteristic only of the humble. The egotistic are so

Black Wednesday I'll confess a conceit: I think I became aware of Black Wednesday before anyone else. When I first started talking about it in the late 1980s, it was scarcely "a thing," in the sense that nobody looked at it as a cultural phenomenon as

The major op-ed in Monday's Post, by editorial editor Fred Hiatt, was titled, “The Fight to Defend Democracy,” implying American democracy is imperiled by a Trump presidency. The Post's lead editorial, “An un-American Registry,” compares a suggestion of Trump aides to build a registry

More Miscellaneous Rambling Special BYCU, Black Wednesday, edition coming tomorrow. As of this writing, I don't know what I'll drink about, but I'm sure something will come to me. Message to Englanders: Start pumping out boys! It's like London is the opposite

Miscellaneous Rambling I don't like dogs. Well, I thought I didn't like dogs. After my trip to London, it appears I don't like American dogs. I don't like American dogs because they invade my space: my ears with their barking, my heart

If the media had bothered to publicize the fact that Rodney King had two partners with him who didn't get beaten by police that fateful night because they obeyed orders to stay on the ground rather than repeatedly getting up and attacking them like King did, the Los

To test Twitter's ideological bias, someone calling himself “Albert Dumbledore” posted the following two tweets under different accounts and then reported them to Twitter as abusive: I fucking hate white people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Trump. Fuck you. I fucking hate black people and their

> Marine Le Pen Takes Huge Lead https://t.co/FH6xyy6SU9 > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) November 20, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/800414015574933508]

The UK reaction to Trump: Wow! If I gave you a blow-by-blow account, this post would stumble into thousands of words, so here are the highlights. First, when we left Detroit Metro, it just started to look like Trump could pull it off. Florida had apparently gone Trump,