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Eric Scheske

Father's Day Weekend

The f-word holiday weekend: Flag Day and Father's Day. I don't have a whole lot of plans. Some time at the office, some time at the baseball diamond (of course). I will also thrash my kids mercilessly until they concede that Father's Day is

Brews You Can Use

InBev next to facilitate vertical integration by purchasing expanses of manure fields: InBev began courting Anheuser-Busch shareholders and staff on Thursday after making a $46.3 billion bid, hoping to add Budweiser to its own Stella Artois and Beck's beers and create the world's largest brewer.

Stream of Consciousness Thursday

Long baseball game last night, almost three hours. The other team ran out of pitchers in the last inning. We were losing 8-6. After we finished batting, we were up 18-8. My son Jack struck out the side to end the game. Most righteous. After that, I came home and

The Wednesday Eudemon

Finally. I've believed for years that NBA playoff games were rigged: The Jordan Rules, high percentage of series going to game seven, the testimony of a very sober and respectable sports announcer in Detroit who said back in the early 1980s, in effect, "I can't

Tuesday Miscellany

Maybe it was Kitty Dukakis' granddaughter: A supermarket refused to sell barbecue sauce to a 25-year-old customer because it contained a tiny amount of alcohol. Staff also refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who did have ID, because they believed he would just give

Monday Moaning

Not much today. I think the kid functions are tapering off, but now it's time to get serious at the office. Just one thing today: The Annual Chesterton Conference will be leaving the University of St. Thomas, and at least one person suspects all the bogus restrictions [https:

Something for Sunday Morning

"All our learning should consist of finding out what God has planned for us at each moment." Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence

Saturday Stuff

Final day of school yesterday. A 60-year-old school is dead. It was a rough day, which has now led into a rough morning due to celebratory aspects that kind of took on the feel of a post-funeral party: the grief starts to wear off with the help of alcohol and

Brews You Can Use

They're heavy-handed. That's why I ain't got much use for prison guards, college administrators, liturgists, and revenuers. If you want to see the latter in action, check out this Dukes-of-Hazzard-like story [http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Cover_Story/2008/05/29/Gettin_Jacked/]. It&

Thursday

Alright, I'll go out on a limb here: Possibly the best magazine article ever written [http://nymag.com/realestate/features/47224/]. I read it in bed Tuesday night and I couldn't put it down. It's about Brooklyn's gentrification, and how a local