Eric Scheske

H.I.F. Time to whip out that Eddie Murphy routine about shooting the Pope (PG-13 content) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHNq07Cwms] then going to Hell: "It came out this week that the NSA spied on the headquarters of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United

H.I.F. I learned about Google Scholar [http://scholar.google.com/] last week. It "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online

H.I.F. I read a ton of Brownson while writing my biographical essay about him. Brownson's apologetics are like nothing you've ever read: opaque and thick, drawing upon the philosophy of Pierre Leroux, relentlessly and painstakingly logical, almost as though he were merely following the

H.I.F. "A new study found that 30 percent of Americans admit to getting most of their news on Facebook. You can tell news anchors are trying to compete with Facebook because tonight Brian Williams' top story was just a picture of his cat." Fallon

Drinking Quotes Kingsley Amis explains why moderns drink: "While the village remained the social unit, strangers appeared seldom, and when they did were heavily outnumbered by your family, your friends, people you had known all your life. Nowadays, in the era of the business lunch, the dinner party, the

If you want to see a Catholic historian implement some of Franz Oppenheimer's findings (purposefully, I don't know), check out Christopher Dawson's essay, "Warrior Peoples and the Decline of Archaic Civilization" (found in Dynamics of World History), in which he points out

H.I.F. More late night The Jonas Brothers have broken up. The music industry is in mourning. It's kind of like when the Beatles announced they were breaking up – minus the part where people gave a crap. Ferguson The Red Sox are up 3-2 in the World

Uncommon Valor Heroes are made every day: "Six adults and two young children were inside watching television when the room began filling with smoke. After the children were rescued and everyone made it outside safely, Walter Serpit told WVTM television that he went back inside to retrieve his beer.

St. James Sag I often put books for the season in our family room. During December, there are books about Advent and Christmas. During Lent, books about the Passion. This year, I put out a book about ghosts. The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley No one

H.I.F. Good late night According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created. Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to. Leno Kanye West went to a baseball stadium in San