Eric Scheske

G.K. Chesterton's Praise for the Irish "For the Great Gaels of Ireland Are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry And all their songs are sad."

Drink Green Looking for St. Patrick's Day drinking material? Here's a good page. [http://www.realbeer.com/edu/irish/]

We don't run essays often, but there's not a lot of blogging material on the 'net right now, so we pulled up this piece from a writer who wants to remain anonymous. We think it's a delightful little essay, at least as delightful

Charismatic Clubbing Based on this story [http://www.larknews.com/march_2005/secondary.php?page=2], charismatic worship services are getting out of hand. In all that charisma frenzy, people are getting gouged and bloodied. It's become enough of a problem that the North Carolina governor is preparing

Idiot's Guide to Planning Planned Parenthood now endorses a thing called "outercourse." Basically, it's anything-goes sex, short of intercourse. A diagram of outercourse is reproduced below (which is taken from PP's teen web site). For more on the PP idiocy that

Booze, Bouncer, BYOB . . . With the NCAA Tournament less than 24 hours away, along with the generous amount of drinking that accompanies it, we suspect this piece could be handy [http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/02_05/02-05_on_the_cuff.htm]. Frank Rich, editor of Modern Drunkard Magazine, has

Religions in a Nutshell There's a lengthy article in Christianity Today [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/002/6.10.html] about ongoing dialogue between Catholics and Evangelicals. The article is upbeat about the process, especially with regard to beating back the secularism that is trying to outflank

Yet Another Call for McLuhan Fascinating article on the revolution [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers134.html] that is about to take place in electronic entertainment. Here are two excerpts: (1) The opening paragraph; (2) a paragraph that describes one of the leading technologies that is going to lead the

Malt Liquor Another study confirming what anyone with a modicum of street knowledge already knew: “Malt liquor, a type of beer that is higher in alcohol than other brews, is largely a drink of the homeless and unemployed, and is likely to be abused, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Fearing the Meat How long do children carry around shadowy notions of natural calamities? The flooding in southeast Asia occurred almost three months ago, and Eric Scheske's daughter Meg, who just turned four two weeks ago, still fears "the salami."