Eric Scheske

Miscellaneous Rambling I kinda feel like Gaudete Sunday [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudete_Sunday] ushered in the Advent season for me. Everything from Thanksgiving through Saturday was crunched and rushed, from a flurry of meetings and appointments at the office to social obligations. While at Mass Satuday night, it

H.I.F. A TDE reader sends this is, with "Beyond Parody" in the subject line. Presented with no further comment: "Toledo Councilman Jack Ford, a non-Catholic, said the Pope's comment compelled him Friday to move forward with calling for a program he had been

A Random Passage Another piece of Hudge and Gudge history: "Another group that was overwhelmingly supportive of Italian fascism was American big business . . .". Thaddeus Russell, A Renegade History of the United States. Russell then goes on to provide an impressive (disturbing?) list of examples.

One of the funnier Onion pieces this year: > The Onion's Person Of The Year 2014: (TIE) Malala Yousafzai And John Cena http://t.co/CxFrR0Hhr2 #OurAnnualYear [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OurAnnualYear?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/X9xMhm0rdA [http://t.co/X9xMhm0rdA] > — The Onion (@TheOnion) December 12,

Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

A flight headed from San Francisco to Phoenix had to make an emergency landing in L.A. today after a passenger gave birth midflight. The parents called the birth a miracle while the airline called it a second carry-on. The woman gave birth in the middle of a flight. I&

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

Talking about the "social justice warriors" (a term on the secular circuit that refers to those people who snoop out racism, homophobia, sexism, and other "evils" wherever they may lurk): "You do the same evil, in the same pattern, as so many before you, because

A village in Alaska has been without mail for days because its only postal worker quit. So if you want to reach anyone in that village, you will have no choice but to email, call, text, Facebook, tweet, Skype, or Instagram.