Eric Scheske

> A brief look at why Aquinas continues to speak so loudly after 750 years–and what he has to say.https://t.co/LPPDStvy4L > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) July 5, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/882690570145214464]

Miscellaneous Rambling Huge feast day today: Antony, founder of the Kievan Caves (1073). Yeah, me too: I had never heard of him nor the Caves, thereby making me feel ignorant and curious at the same time. The Google Machine led me to this Wikipedia entry: Anthony of Kiev [https://en.

> Present-day neuroscience validates what Aquinas claimed centuries ago–the human soul transcends materiality.https://t.co/m7pHqsILgE > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) June 29, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/880425625806192640]

I'm one-fourth of the way through Robin Daniels' The Virgin Eye and am beginning to think it might be a masterpiece. I'm not decided yet. I looked for support of my hunch on the Internet and didn't find much, but I did

BYCU Finally, my subscription to Modern Drunkard Magazine started. Marie got it for me for my birthday in March 2016, but I never received an issue. I kinda forgot about it, kinda figured maybe, for some unfathomable reason, they didn't put out a regular product, and kinda feared

Miscellaneous Rambling About that drug-fueled gay orgy that the policy allegedly broke up in Rome: " The occupant of the apartment is alleged to be a priest who serves as a secretary to cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&

Miscellaneous Rambling St. Athanasius feast day today! No, not that Athanasius. It's St. Athanasius of Athos [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_the_Athonite]. His name ought to be better known in the West. He's the founder of monasticism on Mount Athos, the greatest monastic center

> Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. > — HL Mencken (@HLMenckenBot) July 4, 2017 [https://twitter.com/HLMenckenBot/status/882121803166097409]

Miscellaneous Rambling Welcome to the high mark of summer. MAXimum Greens got slammed with a bad trifecta: Max on vacation last week so he couldn't get produce in, the greens in the field couldn't wait any longer to get harvested, many customers are gone for the

> The central fact of American religion today is that liberal Protestantism is dead and everywhere triumphant. https://t.co/ywYJ5FOsB0 > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) July 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/881618489382846464]