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Eric Scheske

Monday

Happy Labor Day. Consistent with light holiday traffic patterns, I am blogging lightly today. I just have this fascinating piece from Zero Hedge: Wikileaks Discloses The Reason(s) Behind China's Shadow Gold Buying Spree [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/wikileaks-discloses-reasons-behind-chinas-shadow-gold-buying-spree]

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In 1953 Hugh Ross Williamson, the historian, wrote regarding Belloc, "Twenty years ago I found it difficult to read him without anger ... My mind was changed not by reading Belloc but by studying sources, which revealed ...the general rightness of Belloc ..." ((ANW 320)). Belloc was a pioneer in

Something for Sunday Morning

“Silence your heart and mind of all useless desires and distractions, so you may be able to listen to Him in the silence of your heart. You will then know for certain what God wants of you.” Mother Teresa

Friday

BYCU Yikes, that looks, sounds, and probably smells like one nasty beer. Merry Ole Brewers Congratulations to TDE readers from Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, and California. Brewers from your states have been selected to send brewers to England to engage in collaborative brewing efforts [http://www.cleveland.com/taste/index.ssf/

Walking Across the U of M Diag

Alex's First Day at Michigan

We took out eldest to college today. This is him with Marie, sister Abbie, and brother Jack, standing outside the graduate library.

Making Its Way Around the Catholic Blogosphere

Flannery on Ayn: > I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest

Wednesday

Received in an Email I received a slew of emails this week regarding Chesterton. If you're a GKC fan, you'll find it interesting. For everyone else, you may want to check back on Thursday. First, Chuck Colson gives a favorable review of the Father Brown stories

Tuesday

Received in an Email I guess it's from 2003, but the link is making its email rounds and the Catholic Online published it earlier this year: Treatment of Catholic Church 'Kangaroo Journalism' [http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=36261]. It's by

Monday

New Book Many years ago, I was drawn to Martin Buber [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Buber] and Max Picard [http://www.hermitary.com/bookreviews/picard.html]. Buber, I met in an Alpena, Michigan, bookstore, picking up his I and Thou for fifty cents and reading it on the