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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

Not much today. I'm off work and hope to get some serious writing done . . . in addition to going to Mass, attending tonight's high school football opener with my football-wild sons, helping with my daughter's birthday party (she became a teenager yesterday; she hasn'

The Biden Pope?

The Pope is has been talking a lot about St. Gregory Nazianzus [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53059]. He must've seen my biographical sketch of the saint years ago [http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Faith/2000-7-8/scheske.html]. I hate it when my stuff

The Dalai Pope

Why does the Left love the Dalai Lama but despise the Pope? Maybe it oughtta be the other way around. Via The Dawn Patrol [http://www.dawneden.com/2007/08/lama-vs-papa.html]:

Die Hard

Hand me an angioplasty. I went to the movies three times in the past seven nights: I took our out-of-town teenage company to see Bourne Ultimatum last Wednesday, my son Alex to see The Simpsons on Sunday, and my wife to see Live Free or Die Hard last night. I

Quick-Hitting Eudemon

Well, isn't that pleasant: The safety problems affecting Chinese goods spread from toys to textiles on Monday as New Zealand said it would investigate allegations that imported children's clothes contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f66851fc-4f48-11dc-b485-0000779fd2ac.html]. "Dad, these

Blog Column

My most-recent blog column at The Register is up, and I don't think you need a password to access it [http://ncregister.com/site/article/3428/]. Excerpt: > The army of half-read books in my study has prompted me to think a lot about the problem of information

Picture Tour of Europe

I don't know why he did it, but Jeffrey Smith at The New Roving Medievalist posted a picture tour of Europe yesterday [http://medievalist2.blogspot.com/]. It's great, one of the best assortment of pictures I've ever seen. It made me think: What other

Something for Sunday Morning

"I do not succeed in comprehending all that I am." St. Augustine

Looking for Blogs

I'm looking for Catholic bloggers that aren't afraid to display a side of themselves that might grate against traditional Catholic sensibilities: the type that write about their drinking exploits, use vulgar language, talk about pretty women, or otherwise display a bit of pre-conversion Augustinianism. Post them

Prepare for Hillary

Michael Rozeff at Lew Rockwell says the signs point to a Hillary presidency and it won't be pretty [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff163.html]. Be afraid, be very afraid. Excerpts: > Hillary Clinton is more and more likely to become the next President of the United States.