Eric Scheske

Blogging from the shores of Lake Huron, about 100 miles south of the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced, mak-in-awe, with accent on first syllable), near Alpena, Michigan. Eric is spending a week at his family's cottage. Known as “Sandcrest,” it has been in his family since the

We found this interesting. Dorothy Day on anarchist government: > The state is government by representation (when it is a democracy) but there is no reason why a Catholic must believe that people must be governed by representatives --the Catholic is free to believe one way or the other, as

Blogging will be a little light for the next couple of days. No, Eric Scheske isn't off on another important mission (unless killing little brown men, six at a time, counts). But he will be on the road and will have only occasional access to the Internet. We

The New York Times has run an article about the Futuro House, a little pre-fab from the 1970s. Sixty or so still exist, but it appears there's a growing interest in them (which the NYT article will no doubt feed). Who knows, perhaps they'll go

> Two gay Iranian teenagers -- one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the "crime" of homosexuality . . . > Consensual gay sex in any form is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the website Age of Consent,