Eric Scheske

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Miscellaneous Rambling Fifty Shades dominated the weekend box office. * * * * * * * Over the weekend, I thought about women who pursue the cloister and how the vast bulk of them are (I'm assured by anecdotal evidence) happy, perhaps the happiest people on earth. And then I thought about the millions of

A Random Passage "Listening to gossip can be likened to receiving stolen goods; it puts you in immediate collusion with the person conveying the gossip to you." Joseph Epstein, Gossip, The Untrivial Pursuit.

Brews You Can Use Hard cider is the rage. Here's a factoid you can take with you this evening to your local watering hole: "Cider has always been low in alcohol because the apples themselves are low in sugar. Even the sweetest apples contain much less sugar

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