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Eric Scheske

Sunday

All Souls Day [http://www.catholic.org/saints/allsouls/]. One of my favorite non-obligatory feast days. I tell my wife that November 1st will be the day people remember me. My logic: Chesterton said "The holy man always conceals his holiness; that is the one invariable rule [http://www.

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> 7 Things Every Protestant Should Know About Catholicism - Thirsting for Truth http://t.co/QecoAvIaWx > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) November 1, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/528637577914372096]

Saturday

Another great passage from Epstein's Snobbery. He first quotes from Kurt Andersen's novel, Turn of the Century: > George has been amazed to discover that there were two Griffins in Max's class this year. . . . But Griffin is precisely the kind of name that'

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> I Knew a Priest Who Could See the Dead http://t.co/FGO4dMYfds #dead [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dead?src=hash] #halloween [https://twitter.com/hashtag/halloween?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/8c3K74D7ho [http://t.co/8c3K74D7ho] > — ChurchPOP (@Church_POP) October 31, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Church_POP/

Friday

BYCU Man, BYCU blogging is almost too easy this week: Halloween is now a big drinking night, as evidenced by this infographic [http://scramsystems.com/blog/2014/10/scary-truth-halloween-drinking/#.VEzmQPnF-So] . There are many sites dedicated to boozy Halloween costumes, Halloween parties, and Halloween drinks. But it's not for

Some Halloween Jokes

Why didn't the skeleton go to the party? He had no body to go with! Why was the scarecrow given an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! How much did it cost the pirate to get his ears pierced? A buccaneer! Why did the Invisible Man

Thursday

Halloween is tomorrow. Are you thinking about not handing out candy? If so, please consider this piece that I wrote in 2011. If you want to see the difference between adults and children, look no further than Halloween. For little kids, Halloween is the biggest holiday of the year after

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> Dominating the family jack-o-lantern competition w Long Island Cheese pumpkin pic.twitter.com/K2cclPBKQa [http://t.co/K2cclPBKQa] > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) October 28, 2014 [https://twitter.com/TheDailyEudemon/status/527237532279668737]

GKC 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 file full

Tuesday

Joseph Epstein once wrote a great essay about being "out of it." It's basically about his tendency not to know what's going on in pop culture and how, even though he didn't intentionally set out to become ignorant of such things, he&