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Eric Scheske

Tuesday

Defining marriage however the heck we want. Dozens of gay couples were married Monday night after California became the second state to allow same-sex nuptials [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080617/D91BJFDG0.html]. In case you didn't know it, incidentally, this officially opens the flood gates: "

Monday Moanin'

A nice Father's Day: The Incredible Hulk with two middle sons and my father (the movie is highly recommended, though it drags at spots), dinner with parents and brother's family, practiced baseball with middle sons, read. I stayed up later than I wanted because my two

Something for Sunday Morning

"There is never a moment when there is not some virtue to be practiced." Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence

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

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

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

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

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