Eric Scheske

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

Birthday Rambling Happy birthday to me! It's fitting that I share my birthday with heavy-hitter saints whose feast day is today: Gerald of Mayo and Roderic of Spain. Yeah, I'd never heard of them either. Sigh. Oh well, In lieu thereof, I'll dedicate

Miscellaneous Rambling I saw this tweet on Saturday: "I don't understand why we can't just lose this hour sometime during work on Monday." It was meant as humorous, but why not implement it on Monday during working hours? It's Monday afternoon at

> Another busy night at all the British henge sites as staff work all night to move the stones forward by an hour. [//imgur.com/heSvI]

> Whаt a difference 26 years makes. Shanghai in 1987 and 2015 pic.twitter.com/h9bMs0d5AL [https://t.co/h9bMs0d5AL] > — History Lovers Club (@historylvrsclub) March 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/historylvrsclub/status/972559725475790853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

> Instant CTE @Starting9 [https://twitter.com/Starting9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/5Dm9jODQeI [https://t.co/5Dm9jODQeI] > — Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) March 10, 2018 [https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/972620649188462592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]

The Dance Neareth We're not a big TV family so we have only two, but the NCAA Tournament requires maximum screens, so Max and I used the first night of our bachelor weekend to do a dry run. By placing the screens an inverse distance from the couch