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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

Mercy, whatta week. I took Marie out to dinner last night, and I didn't even order a beer. I simply felt too lousy. The doctor says I'm fine, so I'm probably just suffering from lameness. Marie and the kids are leaving for the weekend.

From the Notebooks

"[W]e who plague people with words are many nowadays, while those who teach or are taught by actions are very few." St. Maximos the Confessor on blogging "If we discovered paradise, some real estate [developer] would subdivide it . . . and in a year reproduce Los Angeles."

Tuesday Miscellany

Hell freezes over: The devil's in the details, but it looks like Obama's willing to let the automakers go bankrupt. I never thought he'd let that happen to his UAW constituency: The Obama's administration's leading plan to fix General Motors

Feature Essay

Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed its fury on the God Man, that wicked man was freed to go. We don't know what happened to him, but on

Something for Sunday Morning

"Our friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances have to find us loyal, sincere, cheerful, optimistic, good at our job, resilient, pleasant, courageous . . . At the same time, in a simple and natural way, we must make known our faith in Christ." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God

Brews You Can Use

An old drinking friend comes to town tonight: Uncle Joe (who's movin' kinda slow--joke [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Buchanan]). He re-located from Detroit to Florida about six years ago. Born in 1946, he's the first of the baby-boomers, but more

Douthat

I hesitatingly renewed my subscription to New York Magazine last month. I really like the magazine, but it leans left and at times is too risque to have around my children. My first post-lapse issue came yesterday. One of its first features: A profile of the New York Times&

Wednesday Miscellany

Whew, things have exploded around the office. After the October 2008 Stock Crash, things really slowed down at the office. I was always busy (thankfully), but it was a leisurely-paced busy. Enjoyable busy, if not as lucrative. But now, it feels like pre-2008 Crash again. It's

From the Catholic Anarchy Archives

Anarchy or Subsidiarity? The anarchist welcomes the Church teaching of subsidiarity, which says the smallest units of society ought to handle whatever they can, with the larger units getting involved only when the smaller units can't handle something. “Right on,” says the anarchist. And the smallest unit of

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