Eric Scheske

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Something for Sunday Morning

“Nobody can strive after evil for its own sake.” St. Thomas Aquinas (I've always liked this observation. It puts "the lie" to the moronic Satanists. Satan is the embodiment of evil. Satanists worship something that they see is good in Satan, with the result that they

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

The Herdist and the Romantic “Only the select can be closely confronted with the Absolute without taking flight. Only the saints, but not the 'commonsensical' herd, can and will surrender to the 'Holy Folly of the Cross.' For this reason we have such hatred on the

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Body and Soul "Bodies are mutually attracted by nearness, knowledge, and pleasure but souls by distance, mystery, and suffering." Such thinking could trend into Cartesian dualism, which undermines the sacramental nature of existence, but it's always important to reassert that the soul and body are not

Monday

Jellybysitis New York Magazine asks (6/14 issue): "Why is it so depressing that Al and Tipper Gore are getting divorced? [http://nymag.com/arts/all/approvalmatrix/66453/]" Easy: The man wants to save the world, but he can't even save his own marriage. You folks

Thursday

Armchair Philosophy Corner When people become mentally unstable, why is it never in a good way? For example: As an attorney, I see all sorts of incidents when a spouse becomes deranged in some fashion, and it always manifests itself in a negative way: abuse, infidelity, neglect. Why doesn'

Monday

Stream of Consciousness . . . Kinda, Maybe Man, brutal weekend, with a brutal week ahead. Today's post will be half-SoC and half-normal. If I like it enough, it might become my normal. First, a great passage from this review [http://www.mywire.com/a/NationalReview/Revel-against-machine/16392719/] of a book

Socialist Monday

Already Tired I have a confession: I write my Monday blog entries on Sunday. Haffta. There's too much going on Monday mornings to surf and post. But yesterday, I couldn't find much to blog about. Everything was about health care [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/

From the Notebooks

Merleau-Ponty's theory of art, according to Richard Kearney: "Paintings or poems are not just creative expressions for their authors. They also require audiences. The significance of a work of art, consequently, is not something fixed once and for all by the artist or passively consumed by the

From the Notebooks

A hazy picture is beginning to emerge in my mind. The picture is this: America, the Protestant Empire, has always been opposed to things Catholic. The opposition used to be explicit: the KKK hated Catholics and Jews, as well as blacks. In the twentieth century, such bigotry became unfashionable, so

Up and FTN

Get Up and Go I received an email, saying that Nick Milne (blogger at The Daily Kraken [http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/] and one of the brightest lights of young Catholicism north of the St. Lawrence) greatly enjoyed Up [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810014785/info]. My family had our first