Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the shortest day of the year. * * * * * * * It's the day when the sun stops waning and starts exerting its strength, hence I suppose the Roman holiday, The Birth of the Unconquered Sun (of Sol Invictus). There are lots of arguments about whether the Catholic Church

Wow. One of the more disturbing untold stories about our nation's history: > The Nazi Kid From Brooklyn - Taki's Magazine https://t.co/MIVGW0zvGy via @tealdit [https://twitter.com/tealdit] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 18, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/677961784955969538]

I referenced Modern Drunkard Magazine's Clash of the Tightest yesterday. It's an enjoyable feature, but it's often hard to find the results. After much searching, I found a complete tournament bracket from the first tournament at this page [http://drunkard.com/issues/04_03/

A man in Houston, Texas, is in some hot water after shutting down traffic on one of the busiest freeways in the United States so he could propose to his girlfriend. If you think that's inconvenient, their wedding will take place on the day before Thanksgiving in the

A new poll came out and it found that, of all the Republican candidates, people think Donald Trump would make the best Santa Claus. In response, Chris Christie said, "Oh COME ON, what do I gotta do?"

BYCU So, I won a $25 gift certificate to our local bookstore at the office Christmas party last Friday. I went there on Saturday, looking to spend it and saw they had a single issue of Modern Drunkard Magazine [http://www.drunkard.com/] on the shelf. I bought it. Long-

In three passages, all courtesy of Joseph Epstein: “The man I came to know,” Jones writes in his preface, “bore no resemblance to the canonical Kinsey.” Instead of a cool scientist, Jones discovered a man of missionary zeal, “a crypto-reformer who spent his every waking hour attempting to change

A young Arab boy asks his father, "What is that weird hat you are wearing?" The father said, "Why, it's a 'chechia' because in the desert it protects our heads from the intense heat of the sun." "And what is this

"Santayana, who was very smart on the subject of the end of life, remarked that one of the reasons older people often grow grumpy about the world is that they, with the presentiment of their own death, can't see what good it can be without them in

I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said "You're obviously not listening."