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Eric Scheske

BYCU

After the last two days, I guess I should feel like a breast implant: "A new study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density. Researchers from the Department of Food Science & Technology at the University of California,

Thursday

I golf once a year. Today. The 34th annual Mel Scheske Open (f/k/a Scheske Open). Beer last night. Small hangover this morning. Golf starts in a little while.

Wednesday

If Catholics led the good life that I see in my Mormon acquaintances, there would be no other churches. If we could just combine the Mormon goodness that its members exhibit (leavened with a little bit of wine) and combine it with Catholic theology, we'd have a real

Tuesday

Subways and Stress Learned over the weekend: The New York Subway system was built by private business, but later regulated by the City. The City insisted on preserving the long-standing five-cent fare, despite rising inflation costs. Eventually, the private businesses couldn't survive anymore, so they sold

Monday

Food and Miscellany Monday Happy Sweet 16th to my eldest daughter, Abbie. If the rest of my daughters come out as well as she has, I'll be a lucky, lucky man. * * * * * * * Burger King is foraying into pizza [http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Burger-Kings-Pizza-Burger-

Something for Sunday Morning

“The human will can be protected from sin only when the reason is preserved from ignorance and error.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Brews You Can Use

Returnables: 1960s Style A TDE reader sends this along: Straub Brewery [http://www.straubbeer.com/] still uses returnable bottles. I thought to myself, "Most breweries use returnable bottles because various states impose a bottle deposit. In Michigan, each bottle requires a ten-cent deposit." But here's

Thursday

Rothfus So I'm working late last night. It's 6:00 and my line starts ringing. I typically don't pick up, since you never know who you might get (yes, I hide behind my secretary), but for some reason, I felt like gambling. The guy

Wednesday

Bullets The Euro crisis wasn't really a crisis? Just a problem blown into a crisis? " The Treasury was able to unload a lot of debt thanks to “the Greek crisis,” which the New York banksters and hedge funds multiplied into 'the euro crisis.' The financial

Tuesday

Bradbury and Tea Happy nineteen years of marriage to my wife, Marie. The marriage seems to be going better than ever, but I haven't gotten her input on that issue. * * * * * * I gotta read Farenheit 451: "Ray Bradbury hates big government: 'Our country is in need of