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Eric Scheske

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

7 Jack-o-Lanterns

More carvings

Brews You Can Use: Halloween Edition

Top Ten List Looking for scary beers? Here's a top ten list [http://www.tampabay.com/features/food/spirits/article844951.ece]. Moorhoueses' Pendle Witches Brew, Young's Old Nick, Rogue's Dead Guy, FantÃ´me's Black Ghost, Great Lakes' Nosferatu, Wychwood'

Abbreviated Thursday

With the end of football (see post immediately below), I thought my life was about to shift to leisure mode: lots of time for reading, writing, and drinking. But no: parent-teacher conferences, out-of-town seminars, Halloween festivities. The . . . (um, er) excrement never stops. Plus I'm not

Final game

Final football game of the season tonight. Gorgeous evening, nice farmland background. On evenings like that, you're glad to be a rural dweller. -- Mobile post

From the Notebooks

A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America, the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so