Eric Scheske

What About Our Condo in PV? The American Thinker has published a startling short essay about the civil unrest brewing in Mexico. LINK [http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4386]. A few excerpts: Ten percent of Mexican voters now live in the U.S. legally or illegally, but

Guess We'll Give These Guys Another Look “Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in his 1950 best seller, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, that gays were 'sexual perverts' and 'very ill physically.'" Now that Scientology is the rage with Hollywood, it

MTV In the 168 hours of programming during its spring break 2004, MTV showed over 3,000 depictions of sex or various forms of nudity and made 2,881 spoken references to sex. MTV is laced with more profanity than Rick James's veins had cocaine. MTV during the

Berry's World The Hallowed Ground [http://hallowedground.blog-city.com/] blog prompted Eric to take The Art of the Commonplace from his shelf. A collection of the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry, it's a pleasant read: not too hard yet profound, full of truths you don&

John Paul the Great A few tidbits picked up from Fox News during the past thirty minutes: It has been suggested (sorry, we didn't get a name) that the Holy Father will be known as "John Paul the Great." (This "campaign" has been going

Equality! "This year, more women (124) than men (123) are expected to be ordained in the Church of England for the first time. An average of 267 men were ordained each of the three years before the church began ordaining women, meaning that the number has fallen by half

Blessed Sin? "Dante says that at the summit of Mount Purgatory is the Earthly Paradise, the place of man's innocense. It is from here that, if man had not fallen, he would have entered upon the life of Perfection, in this world and the next. Dorothy Sayers

Book on the Pope's Death George Weigel is writing a book about the death of the Pope. LINK [http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050402005067&newsLang=en] . At first we thought, "Is it going to be one of

Something for Sunday Morning Existential anxiety is quelled by detachment, and therefore, to use Thomas Merton's words, detachment is “the number one rule of religion.” Detachment is the state of mind that does not care for the self–that master of every sinful act, appetite, and thought; that

Maybe It's the Tess Celebration Wine, But . . . The guys at Hog on Ice crack us up sometimes. They're off-color, but frequently funny. Here are one of their contributor's thoughts on bullfighting: I “ate a nutritious breakfast while watching a matador get rectally impaled