Eric Scheske

I just returned from a short vacation to St. Louis. I hope to blog/ramble on about it Monday morning. For now, just this pic of a mosaic from its beautiful Cathedral.

BYCU Kontent from the Kindle Summer is coming, and with it comes gin and tonics. When I first abandoned beer, I turned to gin, but it occasionally gave me headaches, so I switched to vodka, which I've really come to enjoy. After reading this passage from The Drunken

* John McCain addressed critics who believe he will be too old to run for a sixth term in the Senate, saying that he's still healthy and ready to go. Then people around McCain said, “Why is he talking to that mannequin?”

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

Bullets Have you heard Michigan's slogan? "Pure Michigan." It's never struck me as anything special, but I guess it's been so successful that other states are trying to come up with their own "Pure Michigan" type slogan. Branding Ohio [http:

“When the disciples saw the risen Christ, they beheld “him as a reality in the world, though no longer of it, respecting the order of the world, but Lord of its laws. To behold such reality was different and more than to see a tree or watch a man step

Drudge's front page this morning: 'BLOOD MOON' RISES Links to [http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/04/02/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon/70831278/]

Kontent from the Kindle A Testament to the "Wisdom" of Experts, Episode 1,200,902: "In the 1990s, conscious that their old, stately buildings were no longer able to contain the flood of printed matter, the directors of several major libraries decided to erect new premises to

Kontent from the Kindle Are there half-monks, fish who must hurry to the sea half the time? All must withdraw on occasion, hence the strong allure of the poustinia, but must some withdraw more often than others? "Nevertheless–or rather, precisely because of this charitable activity, which brought such

“The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.” George MacDonald "The cross cannot be defeated. . . For it is Defeat." G.K. Chesterton On those who hate Christianity: "They do not dislike the Cross