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Eric Scheske

Wednesday

Lewis and Belloc The September/October edition of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/wordpress/] features am interview with Peter Milward, S.J. Milward has been around awhile, as evidenced by this great Lewis anecdote: "Long before I went up to Oxford in 1950, I had been a devout

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Aristotle said metaphors are the mark of genius. Others today argue that figurative speech is dangerous. A new book explores. . . . more>> [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150104576122702684086310.html] Rikers juvenile detention: Where toothbrushes are weapons and pop tarts the plunder. But it pales

Monday

Monday Miscellany Whew. Whatta weekend. Our high school produced The Sound of Music. Abbie (16) was Liesl, Meg (9) played Marta, and Tess (5) played Gretl. On top of that, my son Alex (17) performed the role of Franz, the butler. It was really neat. The kids worked hard for

Something for Sunday Morning

This deadly cancer of anger from which so much harm grows: It makes us unlike ourselves, makes us like timber wolves or furies from Hell, drives us forth headlong upon the points of swords, makes us blindly run forth after other men's destruction as we hasten toward our

BYCU

Working on My Glutes I'm not sure how many of you read the comments section of TDE, so I want to clarify something about yesterday's post. From my response in the comments box: "I won't stop drinking. It's a matter of

Thursday

Paleo-Man I've been on the Cave Man Diet for 34 days now. I didn't blog about it when I started because I thought I might "cave" and not stick to it. But I have. And the results have been very good. Not great,

Wednesday

Crushing the Youth This article about the "college tuition bubble" [http://nakedlaw.avvo.com/2010/06/8-reasons-college-tuition-is-the-next-bubble-to-burst/] is interesting, but its content doesn't support its assertion. The assertion: College tuition is in a bubble that is about

TEE

For January: "Corn spot up 7.76%, wheat up 5.63%, Rice up 10.08%, Hogs up 10.16%, Sugar up 5.64%, Orange Juice up 3.33%, and cotton.... up 17.08%. That's in one month!" Source: Zero Hedge -- Mobile post

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Amway-like network marketing redux. This time, with backing by Donald Trump. And this time, with vitamins. Scam? Or helping people survive the Great Recession? . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/business/70831/] That John Travolta character? Or more like the Seinfeld one? Or

Monday

Sloping Toward Rush "Ching chong, ching chong cha." That's Rush Limbaugh, imitating the Chinese Communist leader, before launching into a 20-second imitation of the Chinese language . . . an imitation that hasn't sat well with the Left. Link [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110128/D9L1B1SO0.