Eric Scheske

BYCU I'd be curious where Memorial Day weekend ranks among drinking weekends. It must be in the top 10, probably top 5 after the brutal winter we've just came through. I've talked with a lot of people who have told me that it seems

For 40 years Burger King has been saying "Have it your way" in their ads. They're changing the slogan from "Have it your way" to "Be your way." I don't get it. Am I ordering a Whopper or coming out

It's also National Waiter and Waitress Day. So be extra nice to your server. Say "Thanks, sugar" and give them a little slap on the butt.

A Handful of Wisdom The Only Five Things I Wish College Had Taught Me [http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/james-altucher/the-only-5-things/]. I don't agree with all of it, but the writer makes some awfully good points. A few of my favorites: "The

A man in Florida has been arrested for inappropriately touching two women outside a Walmart while claiming to be a psychic. Though to his credit, when the police picked him up he said, “I knew this was going to happen.”

Yesterday President Obama made an unscheduled stop at a Little League game while he was on his way to a fundraiser. Yeah, because there's nothing parents love more than their kid's Little League game getting even longer. Fallon

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

Taki published a new piece this weekend. He was writing about the westernization that the Nigerian kidnappers are rebelling against. Perhaps the best passage from the piece: > When I first heard the meaning of Boko Haram–the words for the Islamist movement that kidnapped some two hundred girls and

Miscellaneous Rambling Okay, hopefully the cold weather is gone for good. Memorial Weekend is nigh. I'd like to finish off the garden this week, so I can attend to some serious front porch reading. . . . On the docket: Chicks. Simone Weil, a Dorothy Day biography, maybe some Edith Stein.

If you enjoy tribute bands, I doubt you'll find one much better than this one: Marie is out of town this weekend, so I took six of the seven, plus one of their friends. Everyone greatly enjoyed it. Daughter Abbie (an amateur musician) was blown away by the