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Eric Scheske

Monday

Language Poverty The cold weather is coming back. That means it's time to beat the "fuel poverty" drum. According to the mainstream press, a person lives in fuel poverty if he must spend 10 per cent of his annual income to keep his home acceptably warm.

Something for Sunday Morning

"A youth who is gentle bears many things; but a small-souled old man, who will be able to stand him?" Evagrius The Mind's Long Journey to the Holy Trinity: The Ad Monachos of Evagrius Ponticus [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814622089/ref=as_li_

Thursday

Bullets Nothing satisfies MADD! Drunk needs ride to store. Enlists nine-year-old daughter's assistance. Police not happy. Link [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/nine_year_store_michigan_girl_pulled_EZiNI1KSibOZ5TfgKsDZwN?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=] . * * * * * * * Best line from yesterday's reading: "Government can

Wednesday

Colors When I grew up, I thought the old world (pre-I Love Lucy) was black and white. I knew, of course, that there was color before The Wizard of Oz, but when I thought about how things must've been like, my mind intuitively fell into shades of

Tuesday

Received in an Email Last year after the Packers/Bills game, Buffalo released quarterback Trent Edwards. During the Packers/Eagles game, the Packers injured Philadelphia quarterback Kevin Kolb. Philadelphia then had to play backup quarterback Michael Vick. During a playoff game against the Eagles, the Packers injured Michael Vick and

Monday

Throw Down the Gloves I admit it: I have a little blood lust in me. I never realized until I was reading St. Augustine's Confessions, about his trip to a gladiator show: As soon as he saw the blood, he drank in with it a savage temper, and

Something for Sunday Morning

"How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them." G.K. Chesterton

Friday

Wines that Rock Seen earlier this week: "Joining The Rolling Stones 'Forty Licks Merlot,' 'Woodstock Chardonnay,' The Police's 'Synchronicity Red Blend' and Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon,' the Grateful Dead's

Thursday

Bite the (Area North of the) Big Apple, Don't Mind the Maggots Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, Hope College [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_College], a small liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan, associated with the Dutch Reformists, had an Hispanic problem. I don'

Wednesday

Received in an Email You need a reason to drink? From one of the e-newsletters I subscribe to: > Signs of decay abound... > * Prosecutors in Shawnee County, Kan. – home to the state capital Topeka – say they'll no longer pursue misdemeanor cases. As a result, 30 domestic