Eric Scheske

Well, another round of cold is about to hit southern Michigan. I'll be hauling my tomato plants in and out of the house for the next five days, which really sucks (15 self-watering containers, five of them holding over ten gallons of dirt each) but everything looked

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. The humorous Taki Theodoracopulos offers a biographical snippet of Sam Goldwyn [http://takimag.com/article/take_the_sour_with_the_bitter_taki#axzz31Qbj6XTL], including these malapropisms: > When his wife suggested a friend should seek psychiatric help he interrupted with, “Anybody who goes to a psychiatrist should

Autobiographical Corner Blogging might be a little slow this week. If you hadn't discerned it yet, the TDE publication schedule has evolved to this: I use the weekend to put together a series of posts, one each Monday through Friday. I then "pepper" the week with

In case you missed it: "The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club has teamed up with the Satanic Temple to re-enact a 'Black Mass' on May 12 at 8:30pm at the Queen's Head Pub, in Memorial Hall, with “commentary and historical context” provided by

Pretty good article: Pope Francis and the Culture of Encounter [http://catholicstand.com/pope-francis-culture-encounter/]. It spends a fair amount of time summarizing some points made by Gabriel Marcel. I spent a lot of time reading the existentialists, and it always interested me that Marcel was a Catholic

H.I.F. So tell me more about the voting for the SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Any chance Michael Sam's sexual orientation and pending announcement were leaked to potential voters, who cast their vote in favor of him in order to "make a political point&

H.I.F. Notre Dame isn't as bad as Georgetown or Boston College, but it's hardly a bastion of orthodoxy, either. So this story didn't surprise me: Officials at the University of Notre Dame revoke permission for pro-marriage table, tell young Catholics to

H.I.F. It's not too often an opening line from a news story unintentionally summarizes, illustrates, and proves beyond reasonable doubt the deranged culture we've come to inhabit: "The low neckline of her halter gown exposes a hairy chest." After that line, the

Richard Branson has announced plans to develop a new type of plane that could fly from New York to Tokyo in one hour. Apparently the engines are powered by human screams.