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Eric Scheske

Bird Watching and Other Scatology

Giving Me the Bird I've had an horrendous spring. I won't go into the details, but a barrage of non-work commitments has frayed my nerves to the bone (is that metaphor possible?). I was looking forward to a nice long Memorial Day weekend, with nothing to

Dead Cars, Amish, Marx, and More

Studebaker and Other Corpses In the wake of pending plans to discontinue Pontiac and Saturn, the Mental Floss Blog takes a look at ten discontinued models [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25613#more-25613]. Nice prose, nice assortment of pictures. Excerpt: > Started as the George N. Pierce Company in

Something for Sunday Morning

"All nature is good." St. Augustine

Brews You Can Use

Roll Me Away The weather has turned nice. That means one thing: cheap bowling. Bowling alleys slash prices dramatically to attract bowlers during the warm months. This Lebowski [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski]-like observation was triggered by a recent issue of New York magazine: Not Your

Fluid Thursday

Stream of Consciousness Thursday I'd forgotten about this short-lived feature. It garnered some boos and some laughs, and I like laughs, like that scene from Mary Poppins ("I love to laugh. Hahaha"), but that weightlessness stuff reminds me of astronauts, and I hear they have to

The End of Volunteerism

In a Service Club, a Long Time Ago I belong to a service club that has a somewhat unique officer arrangement. If you "go through the chairs," you're committing to a five-year stint. Three of the years require you to be at every weekly meeting, plus

Tuesday Miscellany

Bubba Cometh While at my parents' on Mother's Day, my father told me to check out this article at The Economist [http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13528224] . It's about a new line of business: prison consulting. Or, "How to

Hip, Kangaroos, and More

Hip Me with Your Best Shot Professor Charles Rice at Notre Dame liked to tell us, "You don't have to wear a pony tail and sandals to be counter-cultural. You just have to be a good Catholic." So I was a little disappointed (not surprised at

Something for Sunday Morning

"When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings." St. Paul of the Cross

Brews You Can Use

A celebratory BYCU today: My tweaked TDE format appears to be paying off. Average daily visitors this week have exceeded 600. Traditionally, about 400 people come through (run through, accidentally click on site then swear "Catholic Fascist!" then log off, etc.). This week has seen a 50% uptick,