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Eric Scheske

Tuesday Miscellany

Random Thought "My country, right or wrong" is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." That's Chesterton, paraphrased. I was reminded of it when I saw this quote during my evening surf last night: "[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each

Something for Sunday Morning

"Only the man who is reconciled with God can also be reconciled and in harmony with himself, and only the man who is reconciled with God and with himself can establish peace around him and throughout the world." Benedict XVI

State cross-country meet

Michigan International Speedway. Abbie (15) running today. -- Mobile post

BYCU

Snobby Drinking Nerds Are you a wine snob? Or maybe just insufferably nerdy? Then check out these "must-read" wine blogs that Forbes has assembled [http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/23/wine-blogs-best-lifestyle-wine-vaynerchuk.html?partner=relatedstoriesbox] . I can't say that "

Thursday

If Misery Loves Company . . . I track Randall Forsyth's columns at Barron's. I typically don't care what Warren Buffett has to say, so I wasn't much interested when I saw Forsyth's most-recent column, "Has Buffett Overplayed His Hand? [http:

The Wednesday Eudemon

You Offended Him?! I find this story from yesterday's New York Post [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/dolan_gives_the_times_holy_hell_C79kb04ndK2nKWVWLO8O0K] significant: "New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has condemned The New York Times -- blasting the Gray Lady and its columnist Maureen Dowd

Three for Tuesday

Twitter 1. "The founding fathers of Communism, like Internet investors [in the late 1990s], believed that a new era had arrived." Bill Bonner. I've always distrusted new agers, whether they're holding crystals, wearing denim, or toting a laptop. They all say the same thing:

Something for Sunday Morning

"[L]et us love, for love will give us everything." de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence. BTW: Happy All Saints Day. > Calling the saints to mind inspires, or rather arouses in us, above all else, a longing to enjoy their company, so desirable in itself. We long

Over at CE

Ignorant of Theophilus is at Catholic Exchange this morning [http://catholicexchange.com/2009/10/31/123099/].

Short Short Story Saturday

Vampire stories are the rage, it's Halloween, and I always got a small narcissistic kick out of this story. It ran in Gilbert Magazine about ten years ago . . . but the undead are timeless. Gothic Nihilism Jonathan had just finished watching The Conan O'Brien Show when the