Eric Scheske

I'm now blogging for my local parish. Here's a piece I wrote yesterday about the new collection of correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Merton [http://www.holyangelssturgis.org/waugh-v-merton/]: > The twentieth century was filled with great Catholic literary converts (to read about them, see

I'm gonna have to try this: > As soil warms, hunt for wild asparagus | Sandusky Register http://t.co/g5oMd3uQAq > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) April 26, 2015 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/592380392516231168] Thirteen of my asparagus crowns are producing. I think I planted 16. Looking forward

I've continued to monitor the Gofundme site [http://www.gofundme.com/rogan] for the Rogan family. They're up to $466,000. If you haven't given, please consider it. If you need more background information, The Register tells the complete story this morning. "Crowdfunding&

* In Baltimore, the Orioles and the Chicago White Sox played a game today in a completely empty stadium. It was the first major sporting event to be played in an empty stadium, unless you count every professional soccer game in America.

Consistent with my statement last Monday that I was going to start frequenting The American Spectator site more often, I did and immediately found a great article on McDonald's by Daniel Flynn [http://spectator.org/articles/62510/i%E2%80%99m-not-lovin%E2%80%99-it]. In short, Flynn isn&

No comment: "TIL that Martin Luther King Jr's assassin, James Earl Ray was once erroneously honoured during a parade which intended to praise the actor James Earl Jones. Lauderdale, Florida accidentally created a plaque in January 2002 which read 'Thanks James Earl Ray for keeping the

* Scientists have discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex may have had a vegetarian cousin. Man, it must suck to have a vegetarian in the family when your arms are too short to cover your ears.

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full