Eric Scheske

BYCU A TDE reader alerted me to this story in the Wall Street Journal that interests me on many levels: Drinkers Go Crazy for Gin, Investors for Tonic [https://www.wsj.com/articles/drinkers-go-crazy-for-gin-investors-for-tonic-1521199401] . Regular TDE readers know I've been on a big gin-and-tonic kick ever since my

YouTube is planning a "Karate Kid" series that follows the characters 34 years later. The show is entitled "Ralph Macchio's Mortgage Is Due." Conan

Lecture Notes Picture non-Christian Europe in 850: The Scandinavian countries and their Vikings, ravaging everything from Ireland to Russia. Saracen Muslims pushing into southern Italy, even sacking Rome. Magyars invading central Europe before finally conquering and settling in what we know as Hungary. Poland, much of the Slavic countries (e.

Miscellaneous Rambling Theology on Tap session tonight. The topic: His Ontological Suffering. It's a meditation on Guardini's passion meditation in The Lord. In particular, it revolves around this passage in Guardini's work and why His suffering had to be this way: > No one

Miscellany Re: Yesterday's post. “The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.” GKC Intriguing essay by Patrick J. Deneen at First Things: "The Ignoble Lie [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/04/the-ignoble-lie]." I haven'

The Wing Ding The kids and I did it. We threw the mother of controlled wing dings Saturday night for Marie's 50th birthday. The kicker: It was a surprise party. And she was shell-shocked surprised. Friends and family came from Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago; her local friends showed

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. G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse.

Holiday Blogging TDE slows down for the holidays, and this secular holiday is one of the holiday-ist of all. The first Thursday and Friday of the NCAA Tournament are my two favorite sports days of the year. This pic shows Max getting the screens set up for Thursday night'

From the Notebooks Rule of Culture: For every material action, there is a spiritual reaction. It's a testament to the sacramental nature of existence: body and soul, flesh and spirit, intertwined. Lots of examples. Most notably for today is St. Francis and St. Dominic in the 12th century:

Campanella In 1598 and 1599, a huge man named Tommaso Campanella organized a revolt in Calabria to free it from Spain. Campanella was a magician who believed that the stars and numbers portended revolution. He thought the new century would mark the dawn of a new age–an age with