Eric Scheske

More Miscellaneous Rambling My daughter went to high school with a Mexican girl who gave up food for Lent. True story. I gotta believe she drank a lot of smoothies and such, but heck if I know. Does anybody know of any good, balanced books on the GMO food debate?

Miscellaneous Rambling Lent nears. I've never been a big fan of Mardi Gras, though. Excess on the eve of fast makes the fast much harder. Oh sure, I do a bit of it, but I'm not a big fan. Every year, the Mardi Gras coverage makes

Expect the New Left to show up with pepper spray and monodrone chants to drown him out: > “As Christians, we're offering a salvific message in a therapeutic culture. It's a tough sale.” https://t.co/7BqEZPDei0 > — Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) February 26, 2017 [https:

> Ikea releases free design for a garden sphere that sustainably feeds a neighborhood https://t.co/0IpjOud7Xi # > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) February 21, 2017 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/834180533731078145]

I just learned about this: The Museum of the American Cocktail [https://natfab.org/cocktail-museum/]. I've long wanted to get to New Orleans. This Museum just increased the chances I'll make the trip. Of course, even something as cool as a museum about drinking can'

From Garet Garrett's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garet_Garrett] The American Story (1955): > George Washington was unanimously elected President. John Adams was Vice-President. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence but had nothing to do with writing the Constitution because he was then in Paris,

Yet More Miscellaneous Rambling Digging this warm weather? Putting your garden in early? Don't get too confident. A TDE reader sends this along from an Illinois weather site: "We set a bunch of record temperatures in February 1930 (the records we are breaking now). The following March

More Miscellaneous Rambling Man, I haven't laughed so hard at a headline in a long time. From Eye of the Tiber (the Catholic version of The Onion): Burke Named Head of Vatican's Congregation of Janitorial Services [http://www.eyeofthetiber.com/2017/02/16/burke-named-head-of-vaticans-congregation-of-janitorial-services/] . The article

Miscellaneous Rambling I sent this question to a well-placed and knowledgeable Catholic: "Has the primacy of conscience over doctrine always been a contention of the Catholic left (say, since Vatican II), or is it a new attempt by the Catholic left to implement their liberal agenda?" I'

Listverse has a decidedly anti-Catholic, Whig historical perspective, but it's a pretty good site. This recent article is one of their better offerings. I can identify five of the sects as Gnostic, and my hunch is, all ten of them are, but a heresy is a heresy. The