Random Today I Learned Malcolm X spent his youth in Lansing, Michigan, and he attended Mason High School for a short while. Both Lansing and Mason are less than two hours from me. My high school lost to Mason in the first round of the high school playoffs about seven

Historical Liquor This is perhaps the neatest drinking story of 2020: Distiller using molecular science to hack the chemical codes of aged spirits and recreate them [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/mad-scientists-booze-recreating-spirits-going-back-era-paul-revere-180971630/] . They're bringing back bottles that, today,

What COVID Ought to Teach Us I'm back from vacation and catching up on COVID matters. I was greeted with news that COVID cases are spiking rapidly in my county, and one of my clients has it and is "not doing well." The developments fueled my

I just returned from a short vacation. Blogging resumes tomorrow, with a solid BYCU in the wings for Friday.

Miscellany I'm not sure it's terribly compelling, but these days, I eagerly gulp down every ounce of sanity I find: "Muhammad Ali's only biological son says that his father would be against Black Lives Matter, calling the movement 'racist' and the

> June 20, 1980: 40 years ago, The Blues Brothers was released in theaters. #80s [https://twitter.com/hashtag/80s?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/HlAgX0jlbv [https://t.co/HlAgX0jlbv] > — Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) June 20, 2020 [https://twitter.com/OldSchool80s/status/1274334952461656067?ref_

Holiday Drinking! Juneteenth! The date in 1865 when word of the Emancipation Proclamation was formally announced in Texas [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cuomo-signs-order-making-juneteenth-a-holiday-for-state-employees] . A day to drink! If you don't drink a beer of color tonight, you'

Rambling Here's your big chance to be first: I've launched a site at Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/ericscheske]. Yeah, I'm not sure how it works either. I literally launched it fifteen minutes ago and am still learning. But hey, I've never

Supreme Corruption Something happens to conservative men when they reach the Supreme Court: Kennedy, Roberts, and now Gorsuch. I don't know if it's mere proximity to power that corrupts them (the "country club effect") or whether it's downright actual corruption. But it

The Local Bachelor Party These broken chairs are just a snapshot of the fallout from an incredible bachelor party Saturday afternoon in my backyard. Everyone from son Max (16), who served as referee of the Beer Olympics, to us older guys in our fifties and sixties who merely watched and