Eric Scheske

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Thursday

In honor of the Flannery stamp, I dusted off an abandoned essay and resurrected this excerpt In one of his last works before his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky wrote The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. In this story, the narrator goes to another solar system and lands on a

Friday

BYCU This article had great humor potential: 19 Tips for Staying Catholic when you go to a Bar [http://en.catholic-link.com/2015/05/11/19-tips-for-being-catholic-when-you-go-to-a-bar/] . Unfortunately, the author is serious about giving tips to young Catholic professionals who need the bar scene as part of their social network (I

Wednesday

I stated earlier that I like Zen because it represents the highest attainment of un-assisted philosophy. It dawned on me later that I should probably explain myself. What I mean by this is, Zen has sought the highest truths through naked thinking and meditation, without the assistance afforded by divine

Friday

BYCU The best drinking story of the month so far: Ale mail [http://www.cleveland.com/drinks/index.ssf/2014/12/beer_trade_underground_and_ill.html#incart_river] . "Some beer aficionados have turned to mailing beers with each other. So a person in, say, Arizona who has access

Friday

Kingsley Amis shares a little banal insight into the artistic life: "[L]et me just observe in passing that the reason why so many professional artists drink a lot is not necessarily very much to do with the artistic temperament, etc. It is simply that they can afford to,

Monday

On Bullying "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." That easily ranks in my top ten of GKC quotes. It's from Part Two of The Everlasting Man (yet another GKC book that I want to read

Friday

Brews You Can Use Okay, this is frustrating: Only A Fraction Of The Population Has The Genotype That Makes Moderate Alcohol Consumption Heart Healthy [http://www.inquisitr.com/1612099/only-a-fraction-of-the-population-has-the-genotype-that-makes-moderate-alcohol-consumption-heart-healthy/] . According to the story, a new study has shown that moderate alcohol consumption improves the health of only 15% of

Video Killed the Swaggart Start

Truth Will Out A vapid but important piece showed up on the front page of Reddit on Sunday: Why the Internet is slowly strangling religion [http://www.salon.com/2014/11/14/why_the_internet_is_slowly_strangling_religion_partner/] . It originally appeared on AlterNet, then Salon picked it up.

BYCU

BYCU An old friend sends me this piece: The Cold Logic of Drunk People [http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-cold-logic-of-drunk-people/381908/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Vox%20Newsletter%20All&utm_campaign=vox%20sentences%2010%2F27%2F2014] . I should've ran

Thursday

Ruminations on the Fall of Rome [I really like Belloc, but his style, though no doubt superb, is out-dated. Here I re-phrase a few pages from Chapter II of Europe and the Faith.] In order to understand how the Catholic Church viewed itself, we first need to eliminate the word