Eric Scheske

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Hardy Hated GKC

Hardy Hated GKC

For those who like to say that Chesterton never made an enemy, there is the fact of Thomas Hardy's very last literary work. In the final days before his death in 1928, Hardy dictated what biographer Robert Gittings describes as "two virulent, inept, and unworthy satirical jingles&

Heartwarming Football Story Featuring Al Davis

> Davis, as commissioner of the AFL, hired ex-Buffalo Evening News sportswriter Jack Horrigan as his PR man. When Horrigan was diagnosed with leukemia, writes Felser, “Davis, a Jew, bought a votive candle in a Catholic religious supply store. Back in his office, he lit the candle as a devotion,

The Two Political Parties Born in the Same Womb?

> Two main kinds of people fled Europe to live in North America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries: individualists who sought freedom from the political interference they were accustomed to dealing with in Europe; and religious zealots who sought to create and maintain a puritan theocracy on these

From Johnson's Dictionary

macaroon. A coarse, rude, low, fellow; whence macaronick poetry, in which the language is purposely corrupted. > Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat, > Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat, > To hear this macaroon talk on in vain. Donne

Choose Wisely (a joke)

A man is at a cocktail party. An angel appears and reveals to the crowd that the man had recently risked his life to save a little girl. The angel announced to the man in front of everybody: “You may choose one: Greatest wisdom, greatest wealth, or greatest fame.” The