Eric Scheske

My eldest daughter, Abbie, turns 21 today. Man, I'm getting old, but I probably don't feel as old as she does this morning.

My sixteen-year-old was able to crack me up last week with this tweet: > Counting down the world's greatest philosophers 5. Socrates 4. Plato 3. Confucius 2. Aristotle 1. Anyone on twitter who just had a break-up > — Michael Scheske (@ScheskeMichael) August 19, 2015 [https:

The Dow rattles and the doom and gloomers are running again. This, after predicting that, at the latest, total economic meltdown would occur by 2013. They're frauds, the lot of them: every economic forecaster, whether of MSNBC stripe or Schiffian: > Dow 5,000? Yes, it could happen

A study found that many types of head lice have mutated and now have become resistant to over-the-counter treatments. The problem has scientists scratching their heads.

BYCU I kinda feel like the craft beer revolution is becoming like the French Revolution: It devours its children. The constant innovation and cutting beer names is growing tiresome. It used to be fun. For the first couple of years and the first 22,000 craft beer names and first

According to a new list, Nashville is the friendliest city in America. While Philadelphia beat up the person who was putting together the list.

A TDE reader sent this along. He assures me this regularly ran on TV. If you can watch this and have a shred of respect for anything you see on TV, you're an awfully-accepting individual:

Some more great passages from Kauffman's Poetry Night at the Ballpark and Other Scenes from an Alternative America: Writings, 1986-2014: Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his wife, “I want nothing to do with politicians–they are not men; they cease to be men, in becoming politicians. Their hearts wither

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said today that Hillary Clinton's arrogance is “breathtaking.” Of course, he also said the same thing about a flight of stairs. Employees at a Days Inn in Tampa are claiming that managers told them to flip a mattress instead of replacing it after