Eric Scheske

Bullets If you're interested in economics and agriculture, you might enjoy this EconTalk podcast: Lisa Turner on Organic Farming [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/12/lisa_turner_on.html]. For a variety of reasons, I expected the podcast to be an attack on the organic farming/gardening

“60 Minutes” anchor Steve Kroft is defending Sunday's interview with President Obama and Hillary Clinton, saying that he didn't have enough time to ask hard-hitting questions. That would be easier to believe if the name of his show wasn't the amount of time

Oprah was in the news recently for her Lance Armstrong interview. It was TV at its most powerful. Armstrong tearfully admitted to using steroids, and Oprah reciprocated by tearfully admitting she once had to pump her own gas. I greatly respect Oprah because she is from a tough background. Her

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

Random Opening I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but I was dealing with a migraine Sunday afternoon and looking for some low-impact ways to spend time, so I was browsing FB. A friend posted this picture on Facebook, and I was impressed enough to post it

Sundays "You might try never working on Sundays. Just rule it out. See how you like it." That's one of the best pieces of advice I ever received from a priest. No matter how busy I get at the office, I don't work on

"Being humble, we will ask God for pardon many times a day for our sins of omission and commission, or at least for what is not going well in our life. . . . If we live this way, being completely sincere with ourselves, we will have no reason to set ourselves

Caption to this picture: "How to Tell When Hunting Season is Over." Have you seen Zero Dark Thirty? I haven't gone, but it has come to my hometown so I was thinking about going. After reading this review [http://www.city-journal.org/2013/bc0125mt.html]

BYCU I received an interesting email of "incredible historical pictures." The pictures look legitimate, but I question some of the captions (I suspect the person who assembled the original email took old pictures then put bogus captions on them). Anyway, there were a few pictures that, if the

Peterson Observations I'm enjoying John Peterson's Pop Goes the Culture. It's great non-fiction light reading . . . a perfect "bathroom book," though I haven't much defiled it that way. Herewith, a few samples: In his chapter about the wrestler Gorgeous George,