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Eric Scheske

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

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

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/

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

Annual Chesterton Conference

The Spring Blitz continues. I'd give details, but suffice to say: When someone asks me if I want to do X or why I didn't attend Y Optional Event, I want to strangle them. I still haven't taken my life, but a bullet to

Liability Tuesday

"What about the liability?" Those are the words of every disingenuous person who doesn't want to do something but doesn't want to say why. Instead of saying, "I don't want you using my property for a charity yard sale because it&