Eric Scheske

Bullets I'm using today's main post to clear out some links I've been meaning to blog about. Most come from Listverse: Pope Joan is Number 3: "10 People Who Achieved Great Things (Despite Never Existing) [http://listverse.com/2014/06/18/10-people-

Brazil's coach resigned following the country's historic 7-1 loss in the World Cup last week. He says he wants to spend more time focusing on not being murdered.

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

H.I.F. Not just interesting, but stunning. I can't believe these stats [http://news.msn.com/us/government-report-finds-23-percent-of-americans-gay-or-bisexual] saw the light of the mainstream media's day: > This year's National Health Interview Survey was

Many years ago, I read that T.S. Eliot wouldn't read Flannery O'Connor's fiction because he found the violence too unsettling. The idea of avoiding a mode of entertaining for such a reason had never occurred to me (in my arrogance, I probably figured

Miscellaneous Rambling The colorful folks at 4Chan are at it again: Operation Progressive Racial Identity [http://i.imgur.com/Hu5NB6U.png]. "Praise Michael Jackson for being an early trans-racial." This stuff is pure gold, though the poor grammar and spelling is a downer (at least for grammar

A Random Passage Amen to this: "A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one." Simonides. I find myself spending more and more time, praying that my children find good mates . . . or the good sense to

H.I.F. I'd never heard of this organization, but it looks like they're spreading thrills and misery at the same time: "'Hidden Cash' came to my quiet neighborhood in Whittier, CA. They hid money in a small park where wildlife thrives. An

H.I.F. It's scary to know people, even Senators who obviously aren't expected to know better, think like this. Here's Chuck Schumer about the Hobby Lobby decision [http://cnsnews.com/news/article/eric-scheiner/schumer-religious-americans-pick-one-your-faith-or-your-

According to a new study, the largest producer of oil is now the United States. So you know what that means – any day now we'll be invading ourselves.