Eric Scheske

> Benedict XVI spoke the truth. God bless him for it. Truth always harms the stratagems of ambiguity and mendacity. https://t.co/3m9BzPSMpc > — Patrick Madrid ✌🏼 (@patrickmadrid) April 13, 2019 [https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/status/1117156676879171584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use Alright, my last BYCU of the Lenten season. Good Friday is obviously a poor day to celebrate drinking, and it's not like I want to start priming all of your drinking pumps on Holy Thursday or Saturday. That being said, I'm often

> When asked by @tedcruz [https://twitter.com/tedcruz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] if a quote by Mother Teresa was "hate speech," two Public Policy Directors from Facebook and Twitter were left speechless for 12 SECONDS. > When Twitter's director spoke up, he tried to dodge

I'm kind of stunned by this video: But I'm not stunned for the reason stated by lifesite news: "Fr. Larry Richards condemns parents of large, daily mass going families." I don't think he is. I think he is singling out one family

More Miscellaneous Rambling A few interesting tidbits from Reddit's "Today I Learned" feature: "TIL Mount Everest is so inundated with waste, including 26,500 lbs of human excrement, each season that the Nepalese gov't now requires each climber to pack out 8 kg

Miscellaneous Rambling New episode posted: California [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2019/4/5/california]: LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Soledad, Altadena, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach, Anaheim: The entire podcast episode is dedicated to California. Well, the entire podcast, minus a few detours. Youtube

> "Conservatives who took in free-market ideology with their mother's milk should strongly reconsider their views....The stale old GOP view that Big Business Is Always Right And Big Government Is Always Wrong is completely idiotic today." https://t.co/zsww6t6XeO > — The American Conservative (@amconmag)

The main meeting room at the Hearst Castle is set up like you might find it if you were walking in for a gathering in the 1920s, including this tray of cocktails. > A cocktail setting, circa 1920s, at the Hearst Castle pic.twitter.com/KWGTC2mv5q [https://t.co/KWGTC2mv5q]

We got back last night at midnight from a packed trip to California. We spent time in LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Soledad, Altadena, Pasadena, Venice Beach, and Anaheim. An endurance test or a vacation? I'm still trying to decide. > It'

From the Notebooks Marx prohibited any discussion of first things, realizing that they ineluctably lead back to God. Marx was so fearful of questions about transcendence that Eric Voegelin described him as a spiritually diseased man who suffered from “logophobia.” Eric Voegelin, From Enlightenment to Revolution (Duke University Press, 1975)