Eric Scheske

BYCU Thursday evening, 6:45. I'm sitting down with my first gin and tonic tonic and gin after a miserable day. I started at the dentist office, where I had an implant put in. I was told it's "easy peasy," but man, I'

Bullets *Add "white nationalist" to the list of insults that have no meaning. "Racist" lost meaning long ago, as did "bigot" and "Fascist." All words to connote someone who simply disagrees with the Left. So broad, they're no longer reliable.

> Bibliophiles' jewel of the Highlands: > Leakey's Book Shop, Inverness. > Simply stunning stock over two floors of a converted church. pic.twitter.com/aGumCTYjGq [https://t.co/aGumCTYjGq] > — Lyppard Books (@LyppardBooks) April 22, 2017 [https://twitter.com/LyppardBooks/status/855883337910669316]

Miscellaneous Rambling I listened to a Tom Woods podcast last night, in which he said he had an excellent debate night at Yale recently. At a time when colleges and universities condemn free speech and open debate, he said Yale upholds it in the highest degree every Tuesday night. I

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy birthday to my mom. She's a wonderful woman. They say a mother's love is unconditional. My mom proves they are right. I took Michael and Meg out to eat Saturday night, and one of the big screens was showing the NFL draft. I

Divine Mercy film [https://www.divinemercyfilm.com/index.html] airing today on EWTN at 5:00.

I am obliged to re-produce Chesterton's great poem, "The Englishman": St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. For though he fast right readily In hair-shirt or in mail, It

Manent is great. A 2016 interview with him: > On the eve of the French election, it's worth asking again whether French culture has a future:https://t.co/IJeLU0kZDm > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 22, 2017 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/855843655520706560] "We invite catastrophe by

> The "white working class family is today more fragile than the black family was at the time" of the Moynihan Report https://t.co/xmwwjhG2kf > — W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) April 18, 2017 [https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/854152913907843072] > "The welfare state is not really

Brews You Can Use The warm weather, combined with kids sports tonight, drove me to the gin and tonic last night. I even made a return trip to the drinking club, so I could sit on its back deck and overlook the lake while discussing plans for the urban "