Eric Scheske

Seen at Front Porch Republic [http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2014/02/good-essayist-hard-find/]: "A Good Essayist is Hard to Find: Wiseblood Books is about to publish Dana Gioia's superb The Catholic Writer Today as the first in its series of 'Wiseblood Essays in Contemporary Culture.' Order

"If thy head offend thee, cut it off; for it is better, not merely to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as a child, but to enter it as an imbecile, rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell . . .". GKC, Orthodoxy I coincidentally re-read that passage

A new poll found that two-thirds of Americans are following the situation in Ukraine, which is impressive. Usually, you can't find two-thirds of Americans who are following the situation in America.

“I like to say I'm more conservative than [Barry] Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.” Pete Seeger. As

A model is suing Playboy after something went wrong with a stunt where someone hit a golf ball off her butt. Even worse, it was a photo shoot for an article about feminism.

H.I.F. Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams pull their sponsorship of St. Patrick's Day Parades because organizers won't let LGBT groups carry pro-gay signs. Link [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/lgbt-groups-plan-protests-for-st-patricks-day-parade/] . So, if you're drinking Sam Adams, Guinness, or Heineken . . . well,

Rod Dreher blogs about the pending death of the miserable Fred Phelps [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-miserable-end-of-fred-phelps/] , the man who can probably claim more credit than anyone else for the success of the homosexual cause in the public sphere. > I've always thought the Westboro Baptist Church

Not a single Indiana team made it to the Tournament this year. Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame: shut out. All the other schools that have made Dance appearances in past years (Butler, Indiana State, Evansville, Valparaiso, Ball State, IUPUI): shut out.

Expect more posts about older links this coming week. I didn't get through my backlog last week.

A Random Passage Even when the Ivy League had religion it was corrupt: "'Be Christians,' I once heard a president of Yale College cry to his assembled pupils, 'be Christians and you will be successful.'" George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States