Eric Scheske

As a former Lutheran who remains impressed by the number of high-quality people cranked out by my former church, I can't say I endorse this image but it's definitely interesting: It is supposedly "a statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola trampling on the heretic

More Miscellaneous Rambling It's the feast day of St. Paul the Simple. I'd never heard of him, but with a name like that, I had to check him out. He was a 60-year-old who had been cuckolded, so he left her to live with

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy birthday to my wife, Marie. I'd mention her age, but she looks about half her age. I don't want to disabuse anyone of that notion. Ah, heck, there's a name for my malady. From Reddit's "Today I Learned&

This reminds me: Al Kresta recently had a segment on the life of H.L. Mencken. I need to listen to it this afternoon while I get some beds ready for planting: > It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

> "When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.” - Charles Bukowski > — Bukowski Quotes (@DailyBukowskiQ) December 3, 2016 [https://twitter.com/DailyBukowskiQ/status/804995347932151808]

Brews You Can Use I'm battling my first cold of the season (count one's blessings) and am awfully jammed at the office, but I plan on drinking tonight. I never give up alcohol for Lent. Alcohol, if approached correctly, is practically a sacramental. I don'

Chocolate maker Hershey is reportedly expecting to cut its global workforce by about 15 percent. That's right, for the first time ever, chocolate is giving up people for Lent.

Disney announced that it's featuring its first openly gay character in the upcoming live-action film “Beauty and the Beast.” Which explains why they're changing the title of the movie to “Beauty and Her Longtime Roommate Janine.” Antarctica reported its highest temperature in history at 64

Wow, a Solovyov sighting: "Vladimir Soloviev, the Mystic Admired by Popes [http://m.ncregister.com/blog/joseph-pronechen/soloviev-the-mystic-admired-by-popes#.WLdcp28rLIV] ." Those are about as common as, say, Max Beerbohm or Orestes Brownson sightings. The piece is a bit choppy, but not too bad.