Eric Scheske

Note: I'm eliminating the Kiosk. It's too much of a hassle to keep up with the spam.

Whatta week. Michigan to Kentucky (Mammoth Cave National Park [http://www.nps.gov/maca/]), Kentucky to Mississippi (Tupelo, the Birthplace of Elvis [http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/] and home of my eldest brother), Alabama (Huntsville and the Space Center [http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/]), Tennessee (Gatlinburg). It feels like I was

The family and I drove from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to SW Michigan yesterday. About 10 hours of driving, and four of us had come down with stomach flu (I've spent 90 minutes cleaning the van this morning and it still doesn't smell pleasant). Things are returning to

Ok. My dad thinks I should blog on immigration. After a week of watching the borderline racism and histrionics that passes for coverage of the issue on Fox News, I'm almost inclined to. Here's the most sensible thing I've seen on the issue, [http:

Nicholas Lemann's New Yorker article on Bill O'Reilly [http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060327fa_fact] is one of those articles that tries too hard to demonstrate that it's a "fair, yet critical assessment," when the only reason for writing is to

Franklin Foer, the new top editor at the nation's venerable liberal flagship, The New Republic, seems a tad worried that theo-conservative Catholics are hijacking the U.S. government. In one of his first issues since taking the helm, he recently published a cover story that was a

Even if you never cared too much for the neo-primtive stylings of 'grunge' music, you still might find this fascinating - a look at the twisted family tree of Courtney Love [http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/0612/courtney-love.php], widow of grunge hero, Kurt Cobain, and a

Kay Hymowitz has a theory that's worth reading in the most recent issue of City Journal [http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_1_marriage_gap.html]: > What two-America talk doesn't get is just how much these ominous trends are entangled with the collapse