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Eric Scheske

Thursday

Ruminations on the Fall of Rome [I really like Belloc, but his style, though no doubt superb, is out-dated. Here I re-phrase a few pages from Chapter II of Europe and the Faith.] In order to understand how the Catholic Church viewed itself, we first need to eliminate

Fallon

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, “We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.” This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

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

Fallon

Health officials in countries affected by Ebola are encouraging people to stop shaking hands, and instead give an “Ebola handshake,” which is when you bump elbows with someone. That would be a great idea if they hadn't spent the past five years telling us to sneeze into our

Election Day

Nock "recognized no substantive difference between the various governments clashing during World War II. 'Rooseveltism, Hitlerism, Stalinism, are all only local variants of the common doctrine that man has no natural rights but only such as are created for him by the state . . . [this is] State absolutism, formulated

Interesting

H.I.F. "I want to issue a special summons to men, especially fathers, husbands, and priests. The summons is simple: be a man. We need men in these dark days, men who will heroically speak and act, men who will announce the truth and insist upon it wherever

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling My eldest brother moved to Mississippi back in the 1990s. I took my first trip down there in 1999. I had always been a fan of the old South, so I was greatly looking forward to roaming around the oldest of the Old. Although we stayed in the

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:

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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'