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Eric Scheske

Something for Sunday Morning

. . . "'he went about doing good' . . . This is an appropriate summary of Christ's life on this earth. This should be the description of the life of every baptized person since our lives are subject to the influence of the Holy Spirit. This ought to be so

Neuhaus

I turned on my computer and saw that Fr. Richard John Neuhaus died yesterday [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/us/09neuhaus.html]. Fr. Neuhaus' Naked Public Square was one of the first "adult" books I read as I started to take an interest in politics,

Brews You Can Use

Beer pong is getting even bigger: Vegas now has $50,000 World Series of Beer Pong (in its fourth year), and it's leaving college campuses and going mainstream: > More bars are setting up tables and weekly tournaments. A new documentary, "Last Cup: Road to the World

Thursday Bites

I don't know how I missed this entertainment news item last summer: The New York City Opera commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on Brokeback Mountain . . . The opera is scheduled to premiere in spring 2013, City Opera. [http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2008-06-08-brokeback-mountain_N.

Tuesday Miscellany

Allen Barra published a piece about GKC in the Wall Street Journal last week [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123032986340736063.html]. When I edited Gilbert Magazine, Barra would occasionally write to me and even sent me an autographed copy of one of his books. Needless to say, this doesn'

Monday Moanin'

A guy, even a wimp, could win the UFC [http://www.ufc.com/] championship with this strategy: Passengers said the man left the plane's bathroom covered in his own waste on the Dec. 26 flight and attacked the flight attendant [http://www.thedenverchannel.com/travelgetaways/18398737/detail.html#

Something for the Epiphany

"Let us remain in adoration; and to Him, who, in order to save us, humbled Himself to such a degree of poverty as to receive our body, let us offer not only incense, gold and myrrh (the first as God, the second as king, and the third as one

Brews You Can Use

One of the best things about growing older: No winter blues. I'll miss the holidays, but I'm thoroughly ready to settle back to normalcy and to take a long winter nap. A handful of these Otters might be perfect. "The new special release is a

Happy New Year

I celebrate the New Year in my regular fashion: Meet at the drinking club with friends and family at 2:30 to watch bowl games and drink beer. Afterward, I go home and meet the glare of my wife, who's been racked with eleven children (my seven and

Tuesday Miscellany

Alright, I'll vomit now: "The French perfumer Etat Libre d'Orange introduced a product this year called SÃ©crÃ©tions Magnifiques that's supposed to smell like a mix of blood, sweat and semen," Herz said. "And the fashion designer Tom Ford has