Eric Scheske

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The Weekend Eudemon

College football kicks off big time today. It's a glorious day, and my alma mater picked a I-AA team for its opener. Kind of embarrassing. Thing is, Appalachian State has won the last two I-AA championships [http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2007/08/appalachian_state_is_

Brews You Can Use

The WSJ devoted an entire online article (with 2-minute video documentary) to the rise of beer pong [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118834341517511527.html?mod=hpp_us_editors_picks] . I've always loved drinking games, but this one has never appealed to me. I guess I'm getting

Out Again

I took the family to Cedar Point [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Point], America's best amusement park, yesterday. The kids had a great time (rode 14 rollercoasters, some more than once), but we didn't get home until midnight. I'm dragging, and I have

The Light Eudemon

I'm beckoned out of town, so I have no time to blog. I will mention, though, that Drudge cracked me up with this Idaho Senator headline: Terror in the Toilets [http://www.drudgereport.com/].

Polka Infiltrates

Rock polka? Motown polka? Yeah, it exists, though people don't believe me. I see it in Frankenmuth every year, and now I can prove it: If you want some Polka Pink Floyd, go here [http://www.myspace.com/polkafloyd]. It's a slow news day and I

The Weekend Eudemon

The rain won't stop and we're supposed to get more. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything like this in southwest Michigan. It stopped yesterday from about 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., which is ironic since the high

The Dalai Pope

Why does the Left love the Dalai Lama but despise the Pope? Maybe it oughtta be the other way around. Via The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/2007/08/lama-vs-papa.html]:

Die Hard

Hand me an angioplasty. I went to the movies three times in the past seven nights: I took our out-of-town teenage company to see Bourne Ultimatum last Wednesday, my son Alex to see The Simpsons on Sunday, and my wife to see Live Free or Die Hard last night. I

Quick-Hitting Eudemon

Well, isn't that pleasant: The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children's clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f66851fc-4f48-11dc-b485-0000779fd2ac.html]. "Dad, these

Blog Column

My most-recent blog column at The Register is up, and I don't think you need a password to access it [http://ncregister.com/site/article/3428/]. Excerpt: > The army of half-read books in my study has prompted me to think a lot about the problem of information