Eric Scheske

H.I.F. "Meet Jessica Sanford. Upon the rollout of Obamacare she was 1 of maybe 5 people in the entire nation who was able to access the website and actually sign up through one of the state exchanges. In her case, it was the Washington exchange. She was

H.I.F. Why I Stopped Caring About Racism, Episode Number 198,422: > Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist? > That's right. > Apparently, it's because people in some cultures don'

H.I.F. Coming to a childcare center near you: Mom fined $10 by daycare for packing 'unhealthy' lunch [http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/mom-fined--10-by-daycare-for-packing-%E2%80%98unhealthy%E2%80%99-lunch-224131736.html] . Excerpt: "Kristin was fined $10, $5

Funny Quotes Max Beerbohm's older brother, Herbert, was a funny guy. Once, when a man walked past him groaning under a grandfather clock he was carting on his back, Herbert said, "My good fellow, why not carry a watch?" (Joseph Epstein, Partial Payments ). ******* Waugh, a stickler

Obama is wrestling with the healthcare rollout debacle. He urged Americans not to be put off by the Obamacare website and offered alternative ways to enroll, such as using the mail. Then the president got on his horse and rode off to spread the news to the next town. The

H.I.F. Sebelius orchestrates media event, visits a healthcare navigator location. The healthcare site crashes while she's there [http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/11/19/hhs-secretary-sebelius-visits-south-florida-to-meet-with-healthcare-navigators/] . Excerpt: "At a second table, the secretary met Carmen Salero

H.I.F. Interesting perspective (via Lew Rockwell [http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/paul-rosenberg/the-catholic-church-abolished-roman-slavery/] ) about slavery, Catholicism, and capitalism. Excerpt: "If you eliminate profit ”“ innovative, rewarding commerce ”“ you get slavery. The form of that slavery may vary from one case to

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

H.I.F. During 2012, my parish raised money to build a community center for a poor village in the Philippines. It doubles as a typhoon shelter. It paid big dividends last week. From USA Today [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/11/18/philippines-typhoon/3626117/] : "