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Eric Scheske

Tuesday Miscellany

Tumultuous times, the end times, the odd times, the grab a bottle and chill out by yourself times. Random headlines from today's Drudge [http://www.drudgereport.com/]: Obama pushes community 'health centers'...SUIT SEEKS TO FORCE GOVERNMENT TO EXTEND BENEFITS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES...Fertility clinic offers

Did You Know?

Nifty 5-minute video a friend sent earlier this year: I haven't verified the interesting facts in the video, but I know teachers are showing it to their high school students, and the facts seem plausible enough (in an "implausible just ten years ago" way). A few

Something for Sunday Morning

“Serenity is the principal happiness in this world. Without peace of mind, nothing is pleasant to us.” Tikhon of Zadonsk

Brews You Can Use

This might be a 2009 first: Drinking while writing BYCU. I used to do it regularly. Truth revealed: in the early days, BYCU was normally written after a few hours at the drinking club or, at a minimum, a few hours of front porch drinking. After I felt sufficiently steeled,

The Post-Christian Age?

Have we really entered the Post-Christian Age . . . or do few Christians recognize Ash Wednesday that, for all practical purposes, it doesn't exist anymore, except as a weird-looking symbol on some people's foreheads? I have five children that are old enough to participate in organized activities. Four

Ash Wednesday Miscellany

When you fast, do not put on gloomy faces, like the hypocrites do. "Today God asks us also for a rather special mortification which we offer up cheerfully . . ." (Francis Fernandez). Those are hard words, knowing I'll be cringing by 8:45 a.m. with hunger stabs.

Looting Bush

I listened to a fascinating podcast at Lew Rockwell yesterday: Russ Baker on The Looting Bush Family [http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-02-16_101_the_looting_bush_family.mp3] . Baker has written a polemic against the Bushes. The book's basic premise: the Bush family

The Sign of the Coward

“A brave man is also patient.” Thomas Aquinas. Those two chairs–bravery and patience–don't go together in most people's intellectual living room, but if you consider them for a few minutes, you see they match. What prompts impatience? The fear of loss: loss of time,

Something for Sunday Morning

“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.” St. Thomas Aquinas

Received in an Email

In honor of the mother of the octuplets, Denny's is offering a new breakfast meal called the Octo-Slam. You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to you has to pay the bill!!