Eric Scheske

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.

Wow, what weather. My apologies for not posting any BYCU yesterday. I had a small crisis at the office that hit me first thing in the morning. I kept running through noon, then broke early to plant spinach, harvest spinach, prune blackberry canes, and put up another low tunnel (giving

Taco Bell has announced plans to offer a $600 wedding service at its flagship restaurant in Las Vegas. And this is cool – the burritos are conveniently wrapped in divorce papers.

Congratulations are in order for a German shepherd by the name of Rumor. Rumor the German shepherd won best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. This is a huge honor that the dog has no idea it received.

Thieves in London made off with $3 million worth of rare books from the Middle Ages. Authorities describe the suspect as “boring.”

President Trump's approval rating is at 39 percent, according to a new poll. The latest Pew Research Center poll released Thursday shows Trump at a historic low compared with prior presidents in their first weeks in office. The poll found just 39 percent approve of his job performance

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, man. This is depressing: Orbis Books is issuing James Martin's Essential Writings as a volume in its Modern Spiritual Masters series. That's really disappointing. I've really liked what I've seen in this series. I wonder if the book will

The U.S. Army has officially lifted its ban on soldiers having dreadlocks. This is good news for the Army's elite Hacky Sack Corps. Conan

Reference: Monday the 13th Post. Kirk's distrust of libertarianism seems to stem exclusively from its demonic individualist strain, that of Isabel Paterson and Ayn Rand. Those, ahem, challenging women's personalities, aggressive prose, and egos drove him away . . . and rightly so. (I once dealt with an unpleasant

Miscellaneous Rambling I realized after posting that link to my Russell Kirk piece that it was published 14 years ago. Man, I'm getting old. And given that I worked on it for a few years (off and on), my thoughts in the piece reflect a man nearly twenty