Eric Scheske

H.I.F. Okay, this might be one of the oddest history pieces I've ever read: 10 Strange And Obscure Secret Societies [http://listverse.com/2014/03/16/10-strange-obscue-secret-societies/]. This cult description, though probably not the most interesting, really cracked me up: > The

Possibly the best literary piece of 2014 so far: 50 best cult books: Albert Camus, Joseph Heller, JD Salinger and Thomas Pynchon are among the authors chosen by our critics for the 50 best cult books [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/10432344/50-best-cult-books.html]

My good friend Joseph Pearce is interviewed about the situation in the Ukraine [http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-issue-of-ukraine-and-crimea-is-complex/] . He offers some great insight, and for people like me ("Small is Beautiful"), this disconcerting observation: > Putin is despised by

My nephew's business is doing well. I told him I'd pass along this little piece of publicity to TDE readers. If you're involved in high school athletics and you want to organize something that your kid's team will never forget, seriously consider

H.I.F. Many of our Founding Fathers were smugglers. Smuggling is a response to an unjust regime. If a regime believes it has the power to deprive a mass of people of things they desire, or to tax them out of reach, it's a sign that the

So I'm sitting around with a group of guys yesterday, watching basketball and commenting on the horrible weather that's coming our way (they, being men, are bummed out because they can't golf; I, being queer, am bummed out because I can't garden)

The dude seems normal enough, but . . .

BYCU I need a drink. It's the first full day of Spring, and I woke up to snow accumulation. Sure, it'll burn off soon enough, but still. Another reason to drink: It's Friday and it's Round One of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

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

"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