Eric Scheske

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&

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

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

This week Pope Francis is celebrating his first anniversary as Pope, and he tweeted to his 3.7 million followers “Please pray for me.” I was a little surprised that he hashtagged it, “so hung over.”

H.I.F. Although I have found his books difficult to understand, I've long been intrigued by Ivan Illich. He strikes me as one of those thinkers who has an insightful and alternative handle on what's occurring in the modern world, even if his ideas occasionally