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Eric Scheske

Wednesday Miscellany

Twitter Tide turning against the Fed? Let's hope [http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2009/072809_turning_against.htm]: "[A] new Gallup poll shows that Americans are turning against the Federal Reserve, with just 30 per cent saying the agency is doing a good job. 35 per cent

From the Notebooks

I started to write a book a few years ago. The working title: That Politically Incorrect Institution. It was supposed to be a pithy look at Church history and its ways of regularly defying political pigeon-holes. I never finished it, but I cranked out a decent introduction, a first chapter

Monday Musings

Boys Will be Boys? My son has little interest serving at Mass anymore . He's just turned 13 and wants to be a priest, but whereas he used to love to serve, now he does so reluctantly and only out of duty. I figured it was an age thing:

Something for Sunday Morning

"We can find a broad field for living mortification in our daily work--not putting people down, working with intensity, carrying out our tasks with a spirit of service." Francis Fernandez

BYCU

Redneck Stuff I thought I'd heard every redneck joke under the sun, then last week while I was in Alaska, a friend sent a batch of new ones. Since some of them revolve around drinking, and I'm busier than a Kennedy in a cat house, I&

Kindness and Twitter

Kind Me One of the neatest online articles I've read all year: Good Times: What's the use in being kind? A host of benefits, it turns out. [http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07080901.aspx] I read two highly-interesting asides ("There's an entire blog

The Little Arts

Talk is Not Cheap Ludwig van Beethoven once explained to Johann Goethe that the artist is a great man deserves reverence. To illustrate his point, and to Goethe's flabbergasted astonishment, Beethoven crossed his arms and rudely walked through a group of gathered nobility. Beethoven's impolite walk

The Return Eudemon

North to Alaska I'm not a well-traveled man. I've never been to any continent besides North America, and when I turned 42, I hadn't even traveled to the western United States (a trip to Minneapolis for a Chesterton Conference and across the bridge in

Something for Sunday Morning

"Worry, fear, and cowardice arise when prayer weakens." Francis Fernandez

BYCU: Essay Edition

The Joy of Drinking St. George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. For though he fast readily In hair-shirt or in mail, It isn't safe to give him cakes Unless you give