Eric Scheske

Monday Miscellany Yeah, my apologies for the lame blogging lately. I'm struggling just to post something. Fortunately, I think I've found enough whimsical stuff to justify your click over here. If not, well, you already have my apology. * * * * * * * Will things improve this week? Yeah, a little.

In his essay, "You Could Die Laughing: Are Jewish Jokes a Humorous Subject?" Joseph Epstein notes that for many years, Jewish comedians made their living by making fun of Jews, but then, in the 1960s, they started branching out and taking aim at other minorities. He then gives

Donald Trump said in a new interview that he believes his performance in the polls shows that he has not crossed the line of appropriateness. You can read the entire interview in this month's issue of Juggs magazine. According to a new study, stripes don't actually

Now that's a great way to get volunteers. From the Muskegon (Michigan) Polish Festival:

The garden books talk about how prolific zucchini is. Poppycock, I say. I've never gotten more than a handful of zucchini from a single plant. If you want a prolific plant, try cucumbers. This year, I planted three of each. The results so far? Four zucchini, forty cucumbers.

A new bar in London specializes in something called "breathable booze." As we called that growing up in my house, standing next to uncle Patrick for five minutes.

Something seems amiss at The Roller Coaster Capital of the World [https://www.cedarpoint.com/]. For the first hour or two of the day, the rides' lines don't move or the roller coasters are shut down. I'm a big fan of Cedar Point, and the

Miscellaneous Rambling I got terribly excited Saturday night. On my way back from a local watering hole, which followed an extended stay at my town's righteous annual music festival, Marie told me that my nephew and his fiance were on their way to New York. I guess they

> "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - St. John Paul II pic.twitter.com/BfksVvGUwy [http://t.co/BfksVvGUwy] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 3, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/628354315154026496]