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Eric Scheske

Monday

Zsa Zsa and Otha A sex symbol and married nine times . . . but apparently Catholic. I'm rooting for Zsa Zsa in this, her final trip. "Gabor, a fixture in Hollywood for six decades, asked that a priest read her the last rites on Sunday [http://omg.yahoo.com/

Something for Sunday Morning

“Nobody can strive after evil for its own sake.” St. Thomas Aquinas (I've always liked this observation. It puts "the lie" to the moronic Satanists. Satan is the embodiment of evil. Satanists worship something that they see is good in Satan, with the result that they

Brews You Can Use

On Tuesday evening, I felt like Zeus, aloft on Olympus, eyeballing the humans' wives for my next encounter: Mead, courtesy of this place in Ferndale, Michigan [http://www.bnektar.com/], and my brother-in-law who came down for a visit. It wasn't bad, but it was

No Blogging Thursday

Fifteen hours at the office yesterday. No blogging today. Just this observation: It's hubris to think your society couldn't undergo societal unrest and violence. Whether it's the justified Whiskey Rebellion [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion] or ochlocratic screams for government hand-outs

Wednesday

Kinds of Reading I'm increasingly struck by the different types of reading. With the advent of the ubiquitous Web, lots of people are thinking about it, but Web reading v. book reading seems pretty obvious to me. The former is naturally inclined to browsing, the other inclined to

Tuesday

From Subversives to Belloc Dusted off the shelf: Subversive Orthodoxy by Robert Inchausti. Sub-title: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise. It's a collection of 3,000-4,000 word essays about orthodox Christians who took unconventional positions. William Blake, Kierkegaard, Chesterton, Kerouac, Wendell Berry, McLuhan, Ivan

Monday

Sundry Mondry Drudge headlines from Sunday afternoon: "Lavish Obama vacation in time of economic turmoil raises eyebrows..." "BAKER: 'Leaves taxpayers with hefty bill'... "While president preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain...". Overall, such headlines strike me as unseemly. The cost of the

Something for Sunday Morning

“Each person is like that which he loves.” St. Augustine

Brews You Can Use

Summer Beers A long-time TDE reader sends this along: "Summer beer: Many brewers aim for lighter, sunny flavor [http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100803/ART06/100809946] ." That's a great-looking picture, and the article is pretty good, if a lot of

. . . And then the fight started

Received in an Email One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift... The next year, I didn't buy her a gift. When she asked me why, I replied, "Well, you still haven't used the gift I