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Eric Scheske

Another Sighting

This PR stunt is getting older than marrying Elizabeth Taylor [http://www.biogs.com/famous/taylorliz.html]: > Some have seen her in toast, in trees, even potato chips. Now one suburban St. Louis man says the Virgin Mary is in his refrigerator. > Last week, John Milonas was grilling

Pope Against Hard Work?

No, he's not against hard work. But he is against filling our lives with non-stop activity, something I've been guilty of for the past two months. Quoting St. Bernard Clairvaux: > "We have to guard ourselves, the saint observed, from the dangers of excessive

Buchanan Book

Drudge "reviews" Pat Buchanan's new book [http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpjb.htm]. If memory serves, the two are friends. But no matter: I like Buchanan, and I line up more with his thinking than I do the neo-cons that are currently in power. Unfortunately, based

Word Pollution . . .

. . . It's worse than I thought: > James Billington, the head of the Library of Congress, told me about a report estimating that digital information equivalent in scale to the contents of all the library's books is produced by the world's computers every fifteen minutes.

Infantilization of Adulthood

Mark Steyn comments on a familiar theme of this blog [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/softened-state-is-infantilization-of.html] : > “When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do,” writes Charles Murray in In Our Hands, “ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is

Something for Sunday Morning

> For everyone who stands against God and is at war with Him is an enemy of God, even if he makes all men to be at peach with each other, for even as he makes them to be at peace with each other he does it in a way

The Return Eudemon

Whew! I'm back. My third vacation of the year. I got back a few hours ago, and found everything--my house, my office, my blog--in order. It was a good feeling. I spent the week near Alpena, Michigan, which is in the northern part of Michigan'

Old Testament Feast Day

It's the feast day of St. Sarah. Yes, Sarah of the old testament. Catholics and Greek Orthodox recognize all sorts of OT saints, like Jeremiah, Abraham, and Isaiah.

Under the Influence

It's Friday, so what the heck: Notable events that happened under the influence of alcohol (courtesy of The New Book of Lists): Hanging of Captain Kidd Boston Tea Party Nat Turner Rebellion Inauguration of Andrew Johnson Lincoln's Assassination Battle of Little Bighorn Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous

Woody

I'm no Woody Allen fan, but a few of these quotes are pretty funny: "[Intellectuals] are like the Mafia. They only kill their own." "The prettiest [girls] are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God."