Eric Scheske

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From the Notebooks

Waste We waste money. We waste time. Teenagers get wasted. Broken old drunkards wasted their lives. T.S. Eliot wrote of The Wasteland. Freddie Fender sang of Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, and The Who sang of Teenage Wasteland. Anorexics waste away. Landfills contain waste and sewage is known as

Wednesday Miscellany

Porn Hurts, Episode 1,982,001 > A 45-year-old internet porn addict is facing jail after he attacked his wife and forced her to have her genitals pierced. Police said the man from Istria had demanded she get the piercing done so she would be more like a porn star

From the Notebooks

The crazy season is officially upon me: two boys in baseball (same team, thankfully), JV soccer, 8-year-old soccer, 5-year-old soccer, track, piano, dance, end-of-school-year stuff . . . and that little thing I call "my job." I'll have to lean on my notebooks to get script together every day

Something for Sunday Morning

"Every action of Christ contains a lesson for us." St. Thomas Aquinas

He Turns 16

My eldest, Alex, turns 16 today. I resolved to stop sending extensive birthday greetings to loved ones through my blog because it was getting too much of a hassle, plus I forgot once or twice, which made things uncomfortable when I came to bed at night (heh heh). But I&

Mini-Book Reviews

Some new, some old. Some in progress, some finished. Some repeats, some originals. Greatest Essayist Alive If you haven't read a collection of Joseph Epstein essays, you're unenlightened or you've been deprived or you have a life outside of literary pursuits. Hopefully, the latter,

Taxes and Hitler

10% Marginal Rate; More Bennies Than UAW While trolling to update my law firm's blawg [http://sturgislawfirm.com/blog/], I ran across this story [http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/low-income-taxpayer.html#more]: > National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson announced today (IR-2009-43) that the IRS

Returned Home

Marie and I returned home from California at 4:30 this morning. We're dragging. Regular blogging will resume Monday. Thanks for your indulgence during this slow blogging period.

Lookin' for Some Strange?

Strange USA [http://www.strangeusa.com/]. Haunted house, UFO sighting, or other bizarre stuff near you.

Brews You Can Use

Drinkopedia [http://www.drinkopia.com/]. Over 12,000 drink recipes. __________ The news is dreadful: According to the Census, since 2006 we have been living in a republic where, for the first time in the history of the republic, Americans drink more bottled water than we drank beer. [http://www.frontporchrepublic.