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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Friday

Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas? The Beer Taster recently featured Three Philosophers [http://beer-taster.com/beer-reviews/beer-taster/ommegang-three-philosophers/]. That is one righteous beer. I agree with this description: "The aroma is very malty and full of cherries, as well as some other dark fruits such

Thursday

Studies like this don't really impress me: Women Who Lost Virginity Early More Likely To Divorce [http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2011/06/21/women-who-lost-virginity-early-more-likely-to-divorce/] . It's nice to see empirical support for the idea that poor upbringing

Wednesday

Catholic Blog Surfing Bert Ghezzi is a genuinely good guy. I've corresponded with him on a few occasions, and he even expressed willingness to "go to bat" for me on a book proposal he liked (alas, even Bert can't overcome one's dearth

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly On the centennial of his birth, the influence of Catholicism on Marshall McLuhan's Catholicism gets a fair and good hearing. Perhaps the best essay of the year so far. . . . more>> [http://www.walrusmagazine.com/print/2011.07-media-divine-inspiration/] Simone

Monday

The Angel and the Idiots What do Lady Gaga and Mother Teresa have in common? A lot, according to this vapid piece at The Economist: The Angel and the Monster [http://www.economist.com/node/18772204]. The piece isn't sacrilegious (though it does recount some of Hitchens'

Something for Sunday Morning

True virtue has no limits, but goes on and on, and especially holy charity, which is the virtue of virtues, and which having a definite object, would become infinite if it could meet with a heart capable of infinity. St. Francis de Sales

Pictures from Mixology Clinic

BYCU

You watch Mad Men? Boardwalk Empire? If so, you've probably seen a lot of artists at work. Their art? The cocktail. I attended a private cocktail instruction last night at Big Cedar Distillery [http://www.incentivevodka.com/The-Vodka.html]. The instructor, Angie, is a mixologist. She also

Wednesday

Catholic Blog Surfing Well, I completely neglected the anniversary of the death of G.K. Chesterton. It was yesterday. Fortunately, the good folks at Supremacy and Survival didn't forget [http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2011/06/gk-chesterton-rip.html] . It fittingly asks the question, "Will GKC be

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly My colleague: The baddest lawyer in New Jersey. No witness means no conviction. He's facing life in prison. . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/features/paul-bergrin-2011-6/] Comic books were hot. Smokin' hot. And then the bottom fell out.