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Eric Scheske

Jammed

Not much this morning. I hadn't gotten much sleep this week. I crashed last night and overslept for probably the first time in ten years. Just a few quick things: Michigan readers: Check out old penny postcards from your county [http://usgwarchives.org/mi/ppcs-mi.html]. Pretty

From the Notebooks

From 2002: It dawned on me today that I haven't gotten engrossed in a book in quite awhile, possibly as long as five years. In the past, there were books that grabbed me, fired my imagination and intellectual motivation. They threw so much good stuff at me that

Tuesday Miscellany

A TDE reader sent this link to me last week. I meant to get to it sooner, but didn't. Interesting stuff at Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse [http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0310/p09s01-coop.html]. > We are on the verge ”“ within 10 years ”“ of

Feature Essay

If you're an American Catholic, you're an oxymoron . . . or maybe just a moron, I'm not sure. Don't take offense. I'm an American Catholic. I'm content to be oxymoronic, and I feel like a moron sometimes. I love America

Something for Sunday Morning

“Temptations are permitted so we may learn what is in our heart.” Tikhon of Zadonsk

BYCU

That's me, 43. Today. I left work early yesterday to celebrate my birthday eve . . . and insisted everyone else celebrate as well. My daughter Meg (Octavia, who received a four-day birthday celebration and three parties) objected that there is no such thing as "birthday eve," but

From the Catholic Anarchy Archives

The Social Anarchist The State's Power comes at the price of social power. If the State will take care of something, people won't. As social power collapses against the onslaught of State power, society itself collapses. When the state takes something over, the elements of society-

Wednesday Bullets

Dour results for Obamaconomics already? President Obama has repeatedly said the $787 billion stimulus plan passed by Congress last month would save or create at least 3.5 million jobs. But today House Democrats heard a sharply downsized prediction: 1 million fewer jobs [http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=

Tuesday Miscellany

Internet Explorer users: Click on the Comments Link at the bottom for a "clean read." I have a message into the IT guy. "It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we make scientific decisions based

Feature Essay

The Catholic Economy Silent Spain, slumbering Spain, solitary Spain. Max Picard [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971748314/thedailyeudem-20], possibly the best writer ever of thin thick books, loved old Spain. Writing in the mid-twentieth century, before Madrid became a blare of horns and Toledo a blast