Eric Scheske

Doctor: "I'm not 100% certain of the cause. It could be related to alcohol." Patient: "It's cool. I'll come back later when you're sober."

H.I.F. The must-read piece of the week [http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3200608/posts]. Priest slams LGBT St. Patrick's Day Parade decision; his blog then comes down. (And what's with Bishop Dolan? Is he a chameleon? Conservative under BXVI, and now ramping

BYCU Interesting piece about Michigan's booming craft beer industry and the prime industry off-shoot [http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140826/BIZ/308260027/Michigan-s-craft-beer-boom-has-suppliers-hopping] : hop-growing. Excerpt: The biggest area of expansion is in hop farming. Since 2007, the state has

Los Angeles is considering a new plan to boost the city's minimum wage to $13.25 an hour. It's getting huge support across the entire country – of Mexico.

H.I.F. "In poverty-stricken Zimbabwe, the import of used underwear was so common that the country had to officially ban it in December 2011." "[O]n December 21, 2013, 58-year-old Denver St. Clair was killed when a drunken argument with his stepson ended

"A man wrote to say that he accepted nothing but Solipsism, and added that he had often wondered it was not a more common philosophy. Now Solipsism simply means that a man believes in his own existence, but not in anybody or anything else. And it never struck this

Reports say that several of the world's leading kale farms are running out of seeds after the recent increase in demand for the vegetable. I guess they can't grow it as fast as we can throw it in the garbage. Meyers Next week they're

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

Autobiographical Corner and Amish Stuff Whew. I survived another summer. I'm pretty sure I enter every summer with this mindset: Things are going pretty well, I feel relaxed, I'm looking forward to these next couple of months. And then: Wham! Summer turns into the barrage from

A Random Passage Just this for today: "Maryland was Catholic because the King had the happy thought of that way getting rid of some of his Catholic subjects." Garet Garrett, The American Story .