Eric Scheske

From the Gardening Journals Now I've done it. I came upstairs a few days ago and announced to Marie, "I just bought a pop-up coldframe greenhouse. At this point, I won't be buying anything for the garden except a handful of seeds and potting

H.I.F. Two Items 1. More on the German mass sexual assault on New Years Eve. This, from a Pakistani journalist: "I feel that Islamic culture and European norms are not compatible”¦. What happened in Cologne happens regularly in my homeland, Pakistan. The men are never ashamed, never

Been there on more than one self-righteous, delusional occasion: > The strange thing is that when you think you are totally detached, you discover an abyss of attachments. Catherine Doherty > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 17, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/688731740429512705] The full quote from Living

Miscellaneous Rambling Happy Martin Luther King Day. Yes, I'm one of those who don't believe MLK deserves his own holiday, and I think it's absolutely absurd that he is the only person in the history of the United States (and the history of the

> "The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds." - Thomas Merton > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) January 13, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/687268506279276544]

> History's Most Powerful Photos https://t.co/XiGUn9s7Jl > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) January 16, 2016 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/688472338682236928]

Man, the migrant stuff in Europe keeps piling up. This is a classic case of the elites screwing the ordinary people. Merkel and Co. live sheltered from the mess of living next door to migrants, just like Peggy Noonan pointed out last year in one of the best editorials of

BYCU This is one of those articles that make you want to go on an adventure and check out its subject matter: 10 Detroit Dive Bars You'll Love [http://hellyeahdetroit.com/10-detroit-dive-bars-youll-love/]. Until you realize it's, well, Detroit. And that they&

> "Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work." - St. John Neumann > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) January 5, 2016 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/684360545789722624]