Eric Scheske

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An Unjust Law is No Law at All

Photo by Kindel Media on Pexels.com [https://www.pexels.com/photo/hand-of-a-person-with-handcuffs-7773264/]It has become something of a habit in both the American and Canadian media to insist that the Canadian trucker protest against vaccine mandates is an "illegal protest." They are "illegal border protests [https:

Supply Chain Problems Favor Amazon and the Big Boxes

SMALLER RETAILERS SIMPLY CANNOT COMPETE with their bigger rivals in a supply chain scramble. A case in point: Giants like Walmart, Home Depot, and Dollar Tree have chartered their own cargo ships to sail to smaller ports like Houston, Texas, and Everett, Washington [https://gcaptain.com/reluctant-merchants-embracing-amazons-charted-ships-and-global-shipping-services-this-holiday-season/] , avoiding weeks-long waits

Thursday

Could gnosticism become a hot discussion point, at least in Catholic circles? Al Kresta last week did a segment on the new EWTN documentary, "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ave-maria-radio-kresta-in/id316247661?mt=2&i=378123836] ," about Saul Alinsky. The producers

Friday

Brews You Can Use I should've called this entry "Miscellaneous Rambling: Day Three." I had a backlog of BYCU-worthy entries for the past couple of months, but now find myself dry. I've had to do something I really don't like to do:

Sunday

H.I.F. Well, at least he has the decency to admit it, which is more than any leaders in the federal government are wiling to do: Tony Blair apologises for 'mistakes' over Iraq War and admits 'elements of truth' to view that invasion helped rise

Thursday

The Art of Goodbye Like every summer, I had a lot of company in August and early September. And like every summer, I was struck by different visitors' approaches to leaving. While chewing on this phenomenon during random gardening time, I decided that this is probably one of those

Friday

BYCU Michigan got a new Liquor Control Commissioner a few years ago. I don't know him, but he seems to be doing a lot of things right. Although I still dislike dealing with liquor matters because it's a morass of absurd restrictions created by special interests

Friday

Clergy and ale. Some great pics to kick off your holiday weekend libations.

Tuesday

Romanticable Me Friday evening, I sat on the front porch, enjoying a nice late summer evening and some drinks. I was streaming Pandora from my iPhone into my (splendid) bluetooth Sony wireless speaker [http://amzn.to/1WLsJ9a]. The channel: 70s Lite Rock Radio. I was really digging it, which was

Tuesday

You know what I'm really beginning to hate? And I mean "hate," with a pathological loathing that makes me wary of it everywhere I go? Small talk. Yes, I've grown to hate small talk. Let me be clear with what I mean by "