Eric Scheske

> "Trump knows that immigration was the single most significant factor in his election. To maintain good standing with his constituency, he must stop that caravan." https://t.co/DXmakoeJvB > — The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 31, 2018 [https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1057436997264887810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Miscellaneous Rambling Whew. Food poisoning Sunday night. It was rough . . . really rough. I started to recover late Monday morning, but I was groggy the rest of the day. At least it gave me a chance to clean my study/office/library/gardening-supply-center/recording studio. I'm lobbying Marie to

Miscellaneous Rambling Quite an eventful couple of days. I just found out that I'm being sent to Las Vegas next month on business, which is cool. I'm staying at the Wynn, which would typically lie beyond my cost range but due to logistics, that's

> Russell Kirk's Ghostly Tales: Horror and Eternity (essay by Scott Beauchamp) https://t.co/rt81PwKRjL > — ImaginativeConservat (@imaginativecons) October 27, 2018 [https://twitter.com/imaginativecons/status/1056191353238052868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] > Prayer silences the chattering of me-centered existence, which is essential for the intellectual life.https:

Brews You Can Use Unwind. Brutal week at the office. It promised to be a light week, but that promise was broken by Tuesday afternoon. After I rolled into my house at 11:00 on Wednesday night, I decided to work half days on Thursday and Friday. I crashed for

Bullets Great, freakin' great: Dozens more breakfast foods test positive for trace amounts of weed killer [https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/health/breakfast-cereal-food-weed-killer-roundup/index.html] . Nifty piece. I might plug The Weekly Eudemon on all of them, just to see what happens. I suspect the users of

Midweek Rambling Wow, lots of speculations out there about The Caravan: Democrats are funding it, Soros is funding it, they're riding and not walking, Muslims have infiltrated it (reminding me of P.J. O'Rourke referring to people of a certain hard-to-distiguish skin color as "urine-colored

Miscellaneous Rambling Man, 7,000 immigrants marching toward America, although it seems pretty clear they know they won't be admitted. It's sad, and I gotta admit: I feel some guilt. If my history is accurate, Honduras was Ground Zero of the U.S. Banana Republics: countries

Miscellaneous Rambling The new podcast is up. You can access it at The Weekly Eudemon podcast page: Zen, the "Fall" of Rome, Small Talk, Drinking with Commies, More [https://www.eudemonpodcast.com/the-weekly-eudemon/2018/10/20/zen-the-fall-of-rome-small-talk-drinking-with-commies-more] . If you have an iTunes account, please subscribe to it and

> Shorter @MassimoFaggioli [https://twitter.com/MassimoFaggioli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] at @commonwealmag [https://twitter.com/commonwealmag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]: "I've made a terrible discovery: Orthodox Catholics sometimes meet with each other and talk about politics without supervision. There are even rumors that they stand on