Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling I got terribly excited Saturday night. On my way back from a local watering hole, which followed an extended stay at my town's righteous annual music festival, Marie told me that my nephew and his fiance were on their way to New York. I guess they

> "Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - St. John Paul II pic.twitter.com/BfksVvGUwy [http://t.co/BfksVvGUwy] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 3, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/status/628354315154026496]

Some good "Today I Learned" items from Reddit: TIL people used to do their laundry in Old Faithful; they put their clothes in the geyser and it would erupt with clean clothes. TIL That in 2004, police discovered a secret underground cinema with professionally installed electricity, phone lines,

I was probably fewer than five blocks from this joint. I'm kicking myself for not making it over: > It's official: The world's best bar is @deadrabbitnyc [https://twitter.com/deadrabbitnyc]. http://t.co/Jsa7TivHru pic.twitter.com/afPHvWkJw0 [http://t.co/afPHvWkJw0] >

Random Passages "[T]he poverty rate in the United States fell from 95 percent in 1900 to around 12-14 percent in the late 1960s ”“ a period in which government antipoverty measures were fairly trivial. By the late 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty programs began

In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun. Chris Christie, John Kasich, and Rick Perry are currently fighting for the final two spots in

Another Jewish joke that slayed me from Epstein's essay, "You Could Die Laughing: Are Jewish Jokes a Humorous Subject?, one of the few jokes, Epstein notes, to make it out of that terrible experiment known as the "Soviet Union": "On a laceratingly cold and

Greatly enjoying that new Kauffman book. Some more great passages: "[Al] Davis, as commissioner of the AFL, hired ex-Buffalo Evening News sportswriter Jack Horrigan as his PR man. When Horrigan was diagnosed with leukemia, writes Felser, 'Davis, a Jew, bought a votive candle in a Catholic religious

One of the best things I've learned about gardening: You don't just "put your garden in" once and walk away. You continue to plant from spring through early fall (if you're so inclined). I put the bulk of my fall garden in

Miscellaneous Rambling I've heard from good sources that it's acceptable to bring a notebook to Mass and take notes, if it helps keep you engaged. Can a person bring a Bible to Mass and read from it? Maybe a spiritual book? I'm really struggling