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Eric Scheske

Saturday

Not much today. Marie and the kids are going to Frankenmuth, Michigan, for the annual Bavarian Music Fest. I typically join them, but I'm staying home this year. I'm simply tired. It's been a brutal past couple of weeks, and with school year activities

Friday

BYCU The Forty Best Beers in America [http://eatthis.menshealth.com/slideshow/print-list/77385]! Kinda, if you're into the health thing. It's from the standpoint of calories, so if you're gay, it's a good list for you. Number one is Miller

Thursday

Letters to Children Whenever you're dealing with something sinful, incidentally, it is helpful to see what it really is. Strip away the props; eliminate the frills and hype; and see what you really have. If you get the time or desire, you should read Dante's Divine

Holy Day

Well, it's not a holiday, but it is a Holy Day--and I'm swamped at the office--so blogging today is light. Just this little present from me to you: Elvis at TCM, all day on Thursday [http://www.tcm.com/schedule/index.html?tz=est&

Tuesday

Letters to Children Unfortunately, we live in a society that tends to look at the intellectual effort in connection with getting a practical education–i.e., an education that allows one to get a job–and with succeeding at the resulting job, as the end-all of intellectual endeavors. In

Monday

Miscellany So Romney chooses Paul Ryan. Alright, I'll vote in November. I hardly consider myself part of a Republican base that Romney is trying to mobilize, and I still think voting in national elections is mostly a waste of time and signals approval for a system that has

Something for Sunday Morning

"The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule." G.K. Chesterton

Saturday

Letters to Children There are many places you can read about the real purpose of money, but I enjoyed the insight offered by a group of writers from the 1920s and 1930s known as the Agrarians, a group of writers and poets from Vanderbilt who criticized American culture. I can&

Friday

BYCU I love stories like these: Beer gardens fare well: Alcohol sales an 'awesome' addition to state fair [http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/08/05/beer-gardens-fare-well.html] . It's the same old story: A traditionally-dry venue decides to allow a

Thursday

Bullets I golf once a year. Today is it. It's the 32nd annual Scheske Open, so just a handful of things. * * * * * * * Theodore Dalrymple draws a stark analogy between the fall of the Roman Empire and the late Empire's love for games and the ongoing fall of