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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Friday

BYCU The best drinking story of the month so far: Ale mail [http://www.cleveland.com/drinks/index.ssf/2014/12/beer_trade_underground_and_ill.html#incart_river] . "Some beer aficionados have turned to mailing beers with each other. So a person in, say, Arizona who has access

Fallon

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.

Meyers

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.

Wednesday

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

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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

Conan

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.

Tuesday

Random Quotes "The mind has functions that the brain hardly knows." John Lukacs ******* "While it is easier to wrestle with a weak body than with a strong one, it is more difficult to wrestle with a weak mind than with a strong one." John Lukacs ******* "

Great List

Well, a pretty good list. A few of the items didn't make much sense to me, a self-proclaimed Tolkien expert: > 10 Strange 'Lord Of The Rings' Facts That The Films Leave Out - Listverse http://t.co/hveZuFUZlY > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) December 9,

Monday

Miscellany I've been to plenty of flea markets. I never appreciated that I was walking in a den of libertarianism. This 2012 book sounds pretty interesting: Flea Market Jesus [http://wipfandstock.com/flea-market-jesus.html]. "Part ethnography, part autobiography, Flea Market Jesus is a story about

Interesting

H.I.F. New Pope interview [http://americamagazine.org/content/dispatches/new-interview-pope-francis-says-resistance-comes-open-good-sign] . It's sure to hit the Catholic media waves hard and probably the MSM as well. Excerpt: > Some so-called "conservative" sectors charged that Francis