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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

A Gay Guy, a Jew, and a Catholic Go into a Bar . . . No, Not Really. I Was Just Kidding.

A Gay Guy, a Jew, and a Catholic Go into a Bar . . . No, Not Really. I Was Just Kidding.

It's here: Flat-out speech prohibition, even in private conversations that take place in one's house: Norway has criminalized hate speech against transgender people. A “transgression” can land you in jail for a year . . and three years if the transgression occurs in public. If you don'

BYCU

BYCU

Priming your pump in this damp January

Hanging Out is a Rebuke to the Left Hemisphere

Hanging Out is a Rebuke to the Left Hemisphere

America has a crisis: Young people aren't wasting enough time with one another. The result? Depression, suicide, and general malaise are up. Happiness is down. I've long chided my kids, especially my daughters, for making "hanging out" a priority. In my left-hemispheric world, hanging

Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Ben Franklin and the Mouse

Ben Franklin and the Mouse

How I finally accepted multi-tasking It had been there for years, but I had never noticed it. Until one morning when I found myself with a telephone receiver tucked under my neck while I talked with an acquaintance, a computer mouse in my hand while I surfed the Internet, and

Give Me Nothingness or Give Me Nothing at All

Give Me Nothingness or Give Me Nothing at All

Last Friday evening, I was supposed to meet friends at the Hillcrest Lounge shortly after 5:00. I got there at 5:10 and ordered a drink. The others were delayed, so I sat there for over twenty minutes, looking out the window. Other than Ted Nugent on the jukebox,

Your Opinions Stink

Your Opinions Stink

John of Montmirail liked to fight. He was a leading knight in battle; he jousted in peace. But then he had a religious conversion and dedicated his resources to helping the poor, including the establishment of a hospice in his castle. He once went to help a woman whose dying

Frantically Trying to Fit in All the Spiritual Stuff?

Frantically Trying to Fit in All the Spiritual Stuff?

I once told a spiritual adviser that I really liked a'Kempis' The Imitation of Christ. He shook his head a bit and said he preferred to read Thomas Aquinas. He said he found the profound truths of, say, the Summa Theologica more moving spiritually than devotional works.

Entangled Life: How Fungi Know

Entangled Life: How Fungi Know

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. This short book tells me everything I want (and far more than I need) to know about mushrooms and their earlier stages. The author, it seems to me, tries to keep a sane perspective

The Rise of the Holy Men

The Rise of the Holy Men

So holy men left. They left for the desert and became the forerunners of the monks, though these early counter-culture revolutionaries were “in some ways less comparable to modern monks and nuns than to modern drop-outs, supporters of gurus, or others . . . who abandon the conventional world . . .”. Gibbon, The Fall of