Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling All Souls Day. You got out of a day of obligation this year. Why not "make it up" this morning (if your boss allows it)? * * * * * * * Two of my favorite holy days of the year, incidentally. * * * * * * * Brutal weekend. High school football playoffs nearly 90 minutes away Friday

Happy All Saints Day. A festivus for the rest of us, you might say . . . at least those of us that were saints but not officially recognized.

> Was the last 'witch' of Boston actually a Catholic martyr? https://t.co/Mf9LbHcluc #Halloween [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Halloween?src=hash] #faith [https://twitter.com/hashtag/faith?src=hash] > — Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) October 31, 2015 [https://twitter.com/cnalive/status/660501570321166337]

In more Apple news, a new poll shows that the Apple Watch is struggling to gain popularity, and experts are calling the watch the worst device Apple has ever made. At least until the debut of the upcoming Apple Fax.

China announced it is going to start allowing couples to have more than one child. Which means nine months from now, Apple's work force in China will double. For Halloween, Google Maps has created a Street View tour of the world's scariest locations. The scariest locations

A TDE reader sent me this classic. It brought back some nostalgia and even a hankering for a Stroh's, even though I haven't touched that stuff in thirty years:

BYCU For about a decade, Founders Brewing Company's Breakfast Stout label has depicted a Norman Rockwell-esque drawing of a baby eating a bowl of oatmeal. Unfortunately, the Michigan Liquor Control Commission administrative rules prohibit alcohol containers to “depict or make reference in any manner to minors.” The MLCC

Twitterables Courtesy of Seneca: When one is busy and absorbed in one's work, the very absorption affords great delight. Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest. When a man has said: "I have lived!", every morning he arises he receives a bonus. Study cannot be helpful

Twitterables Courtesy of Joseph Epstein If the same progress as had been made in education were made in the culinary arts, we should today still be eating soup with our hands. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli used to respond to the inadequate answers of his less than brilliant students by saying,

Officer flips student out of her desk [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/us/officers-classroom-fight-with-student-is-caught-on-video.html] . I have no opinion about whether the officer acted appropriately, but have you ever tried to get a kid out of a school desk against his or her will? I have (albeit as