Sign in Subscribe

Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

Dinner Beers My father waged a thirty-year battle in favor of beer. When he moved to our micropolitan area, it was understood that classy people didn't drink beer. Everyone drank hard liquor. That was 1969. But he stuck to his guns, drinking water if they didn'

No Blogging Thursday

I'm sorry, but I'm whipped. No blogging today. This little league baseball coaching is going to kill me . . . soon, if I'm lucky. Otherwise, I have two more months left. Did I find The Bad News Bears funny? I think I did, but it seems

Wednesday

Compost Land Last weekend, I ripped open the chicken-wired pile in my backyard and looked for compost. I'd been shoving my family scraps in the pile since December 2008, adding twigs, leaves, grass clippings and other matter at random. The results were amazing. I got six times

Tuesday

Alien Life I've never ruled out alien life, but I lean toward the scoffing mode. This book review raises some interesting points on behalf of the E.T. searchers [http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15864923]. "Modern man evolved as a species 100,000

Monday

Words and Aprons "It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." That's Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony during Monicagate. He has now come a long way, though: "What we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should

Something for Sunday Morning

"There can be no pact with our defects and errors." Francis Fernandez

Brews You Can Use

I Need a Drink The baseball season is only four days old, and I'm already burned out. My son's appearance at the plate last night would've driven me to a big bottle, but I was still vomiting from the spectacle. You ever work on

Thursday

Stream of Consciousness Tax Day. Give the federal government the single-finger salute. * * * * * Hoo hoooo! Happy days are here again. "Better days here? Economic rebound gains strength [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_economy]." Ah, but crap: "George Soros

Wednesday

Received in an Email A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the

Tuesday

Flannery “Do you really think Flannery O'Connor was a great writer? She's such a Roman Catholic.” A moron actually asked that moronic question back in 1972 when O'Connor posthumously received the National Book Award. But she has weathered the decades and her popularity is