Eric Scheske

It's the holiday season. As always, I request your patronage this holiday season by accessing Amazon through the banner in the upper righthand corner. But I've decided that, this year, I'll meet you halfway. I will make gift suggestions as part of my Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, Black Friday. "It's the most/disgusting dayyyyyyyyy/of the year." I've been saying that for years, incidentally. Heck, I was dissin' Black Friday before it started raping Thanksgiving. And now that it's violating that holy secular day, I

> A conservative student group set up a display on @Portland_State [https://twitter.com/Portland_State?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] campus today that angered some students: “Thanksgiving on capitalism” vs. “Thanksgiving on socialism.” The latter was an empty table with a skeleton. pic.twitter.com/cfzqC1c6sz [https://t.co/

“Thanksgiving Day originated in New England when the Puritans realized they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians.” Mark Twain “Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” Samuel Johnson “Beggar that I

BYCU The Left is a sanctimonious kill-joy. Black Wednesday is here and we're primed for celebration. But what is the leftist Huffington Post primed for? [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thanksgiving-talking-to-your-kids-about-alcohol_us_5a04972be4b0c7511e1b3aaa] Lecturing: > Thanksgiving is the time of year where children young and old come home

More Miscellaneous Rambling I'm glad the Reformation Theology on Tap lectures are over. I was dog-tired of reading about the Reformation, thinking about the Reformation, and practicing my lecture on the Reformation. There will be no video available, but there should be audio, which I'll upload

Miscellaneous Rambling Solanus Casey, pray for us . . . pray for me. I can't say I'll be attending another beatification Mass (including, I know now, my own). It was a very nice ceremony; hats off to the organizers, but my situation in life doesn't render me

> Six-year old Brantley Dobbs suffers from a brain tumor, but says God has assured him he is going to Heaven. For Christmas cheer, he's asking people to send him a Christmas ornament. pic.twitter.com/um0uTikHm5 [https://t.co/um0uTikHm5] > — The Stream (@Streamdotorg) November 20, 2017

> Like all idols, pop culture is a phony–it never existed.https://t.co/vq0gF8BQUd > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) November 17, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/931644366162137089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] To be honest, I haven't read the entire article yet, but I was struck by

Brews You Can Use Interesting article that claims global warming is creating new wine regions [https://quartzy.qz.com/1108814/the-improbable-new-wine-countries-that-climate-change-is-creating/] . The best part: It lists the three regions that have the most promise, and Michigan is on it (with England and Tasmania): > Like Montana, the state of Michigan