Eric Scheske

Ah, so it's not unique to me: "Thief, hypocrite, lacking in hospitality, charity, and brotherly love, lazy, a malingerer, expecting others to do all the work while I went traveling around the country, a liar, cheat, deceiver, perverter of Peter's teaching. People have so trembled

Miscellaneous Rambling A page of my life will come to a close this week. After ten seasons as a dugout coach (actually, nine as dugout coach, one as head coach), my last regular season little league game is this Friday. I admit: I'm greatly looking forward to it.

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Fifty dead. Unbelievable. I have nothing to add, except the obvious: America and Islam are incompatible. That doesn't mean the majority of Muslims cannot live here peaceably, but I'm not sure how we separate the good ones from the bad, so I'

> In 1980 there were only 101 breweries in the United States. Today there are over 4000. #Progress [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Progress?src=hash] #beer [https://twitter.com/hashtag/beer?src=hash] #Murica [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Murica?src=hash] > — Drunken History (@DrunkenHistory) June 5, 2016 [https://twitter.

BYCU My small town had a stroke of good fortune this month: a new Meijer store opened up here. It's the third biggest in Michigan. I took my daughters there for our first visit Wednesday night and was greatly impressed. I don't care much for shopping,

Caddyshack, one of my all-time favorite comedies, turned 35 yesterday. Mental Floss has published 15 interesting facts about the movie [http://mentalfloss.com/article/56693/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-caddyshack] . Excerpt: > At first, Murray's appearance as oafish groundskeeper Carl Spackler was planned as a quick cameo, but his characterization was so

Truth in advertising: "While there are no key details about what the filmmaker's next film will be, he will be on producing duties for a new Western that is set to shoot in Los Angeles later this month - and it's already generated vitriol through

Miscellaneous Rambling Versatile Gardening Tool of the Year 2016: The plastic fork. I bought a big batch of them a few years ago. Our cat was ravishing my pots and I read that, if you line the pots with plastic forks, they deter felines. It worked (though, this year, they

Miscellaneous Rambling "Norway becomes first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/norway-becomes-first-country-in-the-world-to-commit-to-zero-deforestation-a7064056.html] ." That's great, except if I were an environmentalist, I wouldn't be proud to have Norway in my corner. Supposedly the

> Warehouse sale: $5 and $10 Catholic Books: Sophia Institute Press. Great titles! https://t.co/uq0Mfb8hgg > — Ellen Finan (@efinan57) May 17, 2016 [https://twitter.com/efinan57/status/732564601934614528] > Catholic Book of the Month Club https://t.co/q5P0S6a1vg > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) June 4, 2016 [https: