Eric Scheske

BYCU I wanted to run this piece last week, but I didn't get a chance: "Best-selling larger beers taste the same, new research finds [http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/08/13/best-selling-beers-taste-same-new-research-finds/] ." Excerpt: > Johan Almenberg and

> Seeking Proof For Why We Feel Terrible After Too Many Drinks http://t.co/2jhIXMK61h > — Patrick Madrid (@patrickmadrid) August 19, 2014 [https://twitter.com/patrickmadrid/statuses/501809277255032832]

Some Epstein, with a little commentary of my own: "The most impressive students I had over my 30 years of university teaching were those I encountered when I first began, in the early 1970s, who almost all turned out to have been put through Catholic schools, during a time

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

Cracked me up for some reason: > I am, the reason Waldo is hiding. > — Overly Manly Man (@OverlyManlyMann) August 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/OverlyManlyMann/statuses/500012780750393345]

I read Thomas Woods' short Beyond Distributism earlier this year. It's a pretty good book, and well worth reading if one is unclear on the differences between libertarian economics and distributism. He flays Belloc pretty harshly. Though I'm a Belloc fan, I never fully understood

I'm the unforgiving sort, I guess, at least when it comes to events. If I go to something three times, and all three times are as enjoyable as a genital-kicking contest, I don't go a fourth time. This rule applies to retreats, especially Catholic ones.

> “For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” - G.K. Chesterton #fallibility [https://twitter.com/hashtag/fallibility?src=hash] > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 12, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/statuses/499012044990218240]

> "It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive." - Charles Peguy > — Catholic Thinker (@ThinkerCatholic) August 16, 2014 [https://twitter.com/ThinkerCatholic/statuses/500446438481231872]

A Random Passage Oh, to be a king in medieval Ireland! > Críth Gablach, the major eighth-century tract on [Irish] social status, states: 'There is, too, a weekly order in the duty of a king: Sunday for drinking ale . . . ; Monday for judgement, for the adjustment of túatha;