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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Along with Deferred Looks

> The word "fail" should be banned from use in British classrooms and replaced with the phrase "deferred success" to avoid demoralizing pupils, a group of teachers has proposed. > Members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) argue that telling pupils they have failed can

ZZ Top's Favorite Culinary Inventor

> Gerry Thomas, credited with inventing the TV Dinner more than a half-century ago and giving it its singular name, has died at 83. Link [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/07/20/national/a091338D12.DTL] . A staple of Eric Scheske's

Anti-Establishment. Kinda

Doesn't The Man run the USPTO? > Former Black Panther associates of Huey P. Newton, the late co-founder of the militant organization, are seeking to trademark the phrase "Burn Baby Burn" so they can slap the words--long associated with conflagrations that left cities like

More Discrimination Against the Homeless

Houston denies them library privilges (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/800/]), Vancouver takes away their bathrooms (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1312/]), Massachusetts throws them away (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1434/]), Alaska takes away their meat (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1456/]), and now NYC won't let them copulate: > Meet

Canada Plods On

Getting shocked by something in Canadian politics is like getting shocked when Chris Rock uses the "F" word. Still, this story struck us as a little premature at this stage of the Canadian game. We would've thought the Canadians were at least six months away from

Groceries, Optometry, Hair Salons . . .

Soon: Doc in a Box, Canned Brief Legal Work, and Wally Morgue: > Wal-Mart Stores Inc. this week applied to organize a Utah industrial bank. > The retail giant already offers credit cards, money orders, money transfers and check-cashing services at its more than 3,500 stores nationwide.

New Meaning to Charles and John

We don't keep abreast of Methodist developments, but have gay revisionist assertions that the Wesley brothers were gay been made yet? > The official conference center for the United Methodist Church's conservative Southeast Jurisdiction is hosting a four-day pro-homosexuality rally September 2-5. Lake

We, Too, Have Loved the Stacks

A pseudonymous writer makes an impassioned plea for the stacks and urges colleges not to throw away their books. Link [http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=0gixexfr1qnuloqnx6pvokmo3ek5o8np]. Excerpt: > Where will the library ghosts go . . . when all the books have been made immaterial and antiseptic through digitization? > What

High Praise

High praise from Pat Buchanan for Cinderella Man: > Men and women like the James and Mae Braddock of this film were the products of homes, schools, churches and parishes, and Howard's depiction of the community that produced them marks this as one of the most pro-Catholic

You Can Murder Her, But Don't Get Her Drunk

> A pregnant Oklahoma woman who split a case of beer with her boyfriend shortly before giving birth last month is facing felony child neglect charges. Melissa Irene Tanner, a 37-year-old mother of seven, had a blood alcohol content nearly four times the state's .08 limit,