Eric Scheske

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans' benefits will kick in. A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.

Starbucks has confirmed that saxophone star Kenny G. helped create the Frappuccino. And that, by the way, was voted the world's whitest sentence ever uttered.

There's a rumor that NBC is going to have Tom Brokaw fill in temporarily as the NBC News anchor. When asked why, a network spokesperson said, "Because the only other NBC person we have is Bill Cosby."

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Rosie says she's leaving "The View" to focus on her health. She said her doctors were concerned about all the stress that working an hour a day puts on the body.

Similarly, the tough guy facade is a refuge of those suffering from arrested development: > Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ~ Oscar Wilde http://t.co/UZy50d2aUY > — Zen Moments (@Zen_Moments) February 8, 2015 [https://twitter.com/Zen_Moments/status/564329826874818560]

Autobiographical Corner Something new for me: I woke up and headed to my basement study Sunday morning before my sons' spontaneous friend gathering had broken up. Granted, it was already 4:15 AM, but it was kind of odd to walk downstairs to the sound of contemporary music and

More evidence that I need the lucky astrology mood watch (reference this morning's post). Or that I need to read more Montaigne, who early on questioned our culture's burdgeoning faith in science and reason: > Health Mag Editor Tests Accuracy of Several Fitness Tracking Devices and

Miscellaneous Rambling I almost started this Rambling with this statement, "Why all the horror over Brian Williams' fabrications?" I was then going to recount how Hillary Clinton's equally-mendacious statements about sniper fire in Bosnia and running with her "head down" a few