Eric Scheske

We apologize for the lack of posts last night, including a promised passage from James Schall. Eric was tied up with his four sons all day yesterday until his wife got home, shortly after which thunderstorms and, we're told, tornadoes ripped through our region, knocking out power until

Eric Scheske views his diocese with a modest degree of disapproval. He isn't favorably impressed with its intellectual, spiritual, material, or administrative rigor. He has, with good reason, occasionally mentioned that he lives in an "arid" Catholic region of the world. At the same time, he

The folks at Lew Rockwell refer to the public school system as the most pure example of socialism we have in this country. We tend to view such statement as hyperbole (but maybe not, since they restrict it to examples in our country), but there's truth there: public

A UK magazine finds that people are inclined to rate their trendy products highly, even though they aren't very reliable. Link [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1497103,00.html]. Excerpt: > But despite ranking low in reliability, Dyson [vacuum cleaner] owners are still relatively

Scientists swapped a gene in fruit flies and turned them queer. Now they're proclaiming the dispute about whether homosexuality is hereditary or environmental is almost over . . . in favor hereditary. Link [http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=644275]. Excerpts: > The long-running scientific

"[T]hose who are nothing but flesh and are addicted to self-love always serve sensuality and vanity; envy too is rooted in them." "Those who speak from their own thoughts, before having acquired purity, are seduced by the spirit of self-esteem." "He who

> German police, alerted to a potential kidnapping, "freed" a man from a car trunk only to discover the would-be victim was actually a willing sex slave, authorities said Thursday. > Police stopped the car after a concerned caller told them he had seen a woman locking

> Oxytocin is generated naturally by the brain--and scientists have long associated it with positive social behaviors. It's sometimes called the hormone of love. > The hormone's effect specifically on trust hasn't been well understood. But in an experiment described in this month&