Eric Scheske

While touring all those great churches in Rome, I kept recalling this passage from my reading, but I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd seen it. Here's the passage. I found it in Joseph Epstein's In a Cardboard Belt!

H.I.F. An assortment of George Carlin quotes at Lew Rockwell today [http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/george-carlin-said-it/]. “Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.” “Electricity is just organized lightning.” “I think people should be

“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.” Robert Graves “The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.

H.I.F. Received in an Email I am passing this on to you because it definitely works, and we could all use a little more calmness in our lives. By following simple advice heard on the Dr. Phil show, you too can find inner peace. Dr Phil proclaimed, "

If you still haven't bought at least one of John Zmirak's Bad Catholic's Guides, you're missing out. The guy is brilliant, erudite, and funny. He deserves an audience as large as Chesterton enjoyed. Who else is crafting passages with this much theological

Daniel Robinson's An Intellectual History of Psychology is more than that. It's psychology and history, but also sociology, culture, philosophy, Patristics, and other things. A great example from Chapter 6, "Nature and Spirit of the Renaissance." Pico, Savonarola, da Vinci . . . then ending with a

John Zmirak rings the alarm bell over at Alateia (my apologies that I'm three weeks behind the curve on this one): "In fact, there is something very serious going on in Catholic intellectual and educational circles, which – if it goes on unchecked – will threaten the pro-life

H.I.F. San Francisco will stop service on its historic cable cars and streetcars lines at 2 pm (PST) Sunday to protect them from overzealous football fans vandals and other troublemakers who might get a bit too rowdy after the Niners win - or lose - in Seattle. Link [http://www.

H.I.F. This would be a tragedy, if it were beer: "Bottles of Bud Light littered Interstate 71/75 South for most of the day Monday after a tractor-trailer hauling beer overturned on the Brent Spence Bridge at about 4 a.m. 'There's Bud

Died of a Hangover? Among my store of historical esoterica that I use to entertain and disgust friends and families with my erudition and hauteur: Alexander the Great died of a hangover. It is one of those things that has long amused me. And, occasionally, it's been one