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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Tuesday

Stream of Consciousness TDE readers encouraged me. Blame them. Besides, I have to mention: CBS sucks. If you watched the Selection Show Sunday night, you know what I mean. It's a tradition for CBS to show teams celebrating when they hear that they've made the tournament.

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Monday

Stream of Consciousness Bracketology, bracketology, bracketology. I love the NCAA Tournament, but they need to ditch that term. It's gotten so bad, I don't even like the word "bracket" anymore. And what's with NCAA women's basketball? Talk about a project

Something for Sunday Morning

"Holiness . . . is not produced by intellectual speculation about it." de Caussade, Abandonmnent

The Birthday Eudemon

It's my birthday . . . and I'm working on taxes this weekend . . . and I'm busy at the office. So I'm taking a day off from blogging. If you want something fairly interesting, try this: How Greece's Debt Crisis Affects America [http://www.

Brews You Can Use

Wikidrunk By chance, I started cruising around Wikipedia yesterday. It has some great drinking references. There is, for instance, this post [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckfast_Tonic_Wine] about Buckfast Tonic Wine. I'd never heard of the stuff, but I guess it's (i) brewed by

Thursday

Time scarce. Just two things today: 1. Nerds with a sense of humor. The financial mavericks at Zero Hedge slay me: > Greece has just become the biggest sovereign debt panhandler, begging its own people for a bailout. The Greek situation is now so bad that as of a few

Wednesday Bullets

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bathroom: "About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes. . . [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0923528620100309]". I kinda like it: "Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial

Tuesday

Twitter In February, I wrote a post about the high wages of federal employees [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=13189]. As I wrote it, I was bothered by one thing: it's difficult to compare federal jobs to private jobs. I know with moral certainty that the government employees aren&

Monday

"I'm Protesting with My Student Loan Money!" Music to my ears: Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California