Eric Scheske

Podcast Update Well, I've done it: I've started a "real" podcast, one in which I control the feed, can host show notes, etc. It took a large chunk of my day on Sunday, but the basic site is up and running. You can check

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to Columbus Day. Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Also the anniversary of the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon, which was convened on this day in 451. I believe this was the nastiest of the councils, with monks rioting in the street in support of their respective sides. Think

Call me "Humpty" > Okay this is a quality meme pic.twitter.com/AaXXa67GRl [https://t.co/AaXXa67GRl] > — I put the Don in Don't (@omgShutUpDon) October 3, 2018 [https://twitter.com/omgShutUpDon/status/1047466232700526594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Show Notes Primary Obligations: The emptiness of the 24/7 argument. Does modern libertarianism conflict with the Catechism? Early Rise of the Centralized State. A'Kempis and a Mild Critique of Libertarianism. St. Symeon the New Theologian. Drunks on Screen. Music: Used pursuant to the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike

> This is one reason that many Eastern Orthodox Christians find it hard to take the idea of reunification with Rome seriously: liturgical instability and what it means. https://t.co/infnz8oPrg > — Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1048248310304260098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

Brews You Can Use One of the more humorous drinking things I saw this week: Modern Drunkard Magazine's "Today's Reason to Drink" is now an Alexa Skill. Link [https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Drunkard-Todays-Reason-Drink/dp/B07817K38V/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-skills&ie=UTF8&

Midgets to Seeds Alright, I may have scraped a new low: I bought tickets to see Extreme Midget Wrestling [https://extrememidgetwrestling.com/] in Detroit later this fall. All four sons wanted to go and were available to go, so I decided to make a men's night out of

Miscellaneous Rambling The FBI finishes its investigation today. I like David Stockman's angle, which pretty much says, "Everyone sucks." Excerpt, "]W]hy is the Senate of the United States (and now the FBI, too) wasting its time investigating the antics of a handful of party

From the Notebooks Black magic, the soul killing of Faustus, and political magic come together in abortion. Abortion contains it all. It reflects the ugliness of black magic. It preserves the career path of the Faustian. It's a tool in progressives' attempts to establish a better society