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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

If You Name It, They Will Come

I found this in yesterday's WSJ (James Taranto's Best of the Web [http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/]). It's not a joke: > [T]here's a small but growing effort under way to get a Vermont mountain named after the controversial movie, Brokeback

Ms. Memory

I was blessed with an excellent memory, though stress has somewhat taken a toll on it. I found this article [http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=060324&cat=scitech&st=scitechdyehard_woman_memory_060320&src=abc] highly interesting. My memory was nowhere

Farce of the Penguins

> Actor Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to narrate an upcoming spoof of the Oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" with an all-star supporting voice cast, independent studio ThinkFilm said on Friday. > "Farce of the Penguins," mixing archival wildlife footage with an

Brews You Can Use, Saturday Edition

The surest way to ruin a pleasure is to over-indulge this pleasure. Yeah, this [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1775605.html] might qualify: > The world's first beer health centre has opened in the cellar of a family brewery in the Czech Republic. > Beer

Elle

While heating up my lunch at the office, I flipped through Elle magazine (the secretaries keep it in the break room). I tried to find the table of contents, but discovered that it's buried: it comes after 37 pages of advertisements. It's probably common to fashion

Immigration

I haven't followed the new immigration bill closely, but I'm befuddled by all the protests. Is illegal immigration illegal? If so, it should be treated as, you know, illegal. According to Fox News, right now it's treated strictly as a civil matter, which means

The Weekend Eudemon

Wow, whatta week. If you were annoyed at the drop in TDE posts, just be grateful that the posts didn't stop altogether. I've posted 390 days in a row, but the string was almost snapped this week due to intense pressures at the office and, as

Worse Than Its Bite

> The Bruintjes family says a city inspector was barking up the wrong tree when he handed them an euro80 (US$97) bill for the Dutch dog tax. > The family insists it does not have a dog - only a barking doorbell. > It was the second year in a

Brews You Can Use II

I suspect these results don't mean squat, but what the heck: Results from Great American "Premium" Beer Challenge [http://pdxbeer.blogspot.com/2006/03/results-from-great-american-premium.html] Coors Original Northwest Trail Labatt Blue Full Sail Session Old German Premium Lager Iron City Miller

Brews You Can Use

> Animal activists in Australia have set up a toad-for-beer exchange in order to promote humanitarian disposal of toads [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002876.php]. Now that's a stupid tree-hugger-like program I could get into.