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Eric Scheske

Ganja Me

> Milton Friedman is no dopehead. But that's his hallowed name atop the list of more than 500 economists who've signed an open letter asking our Drug War-addled politicians to stop the prohibition of marijuana and instead legalize it and tax it. > The petition

Reporting on Assignment

Mogadishu is a hot spot, but not of the wi-fi sort. Eric Scheske had to resort to the Mogadishu public library (who knew Carnegie's grants stretched so far?) to blog. He has only minutes until his pursuers discover where he has ducked, various recovered religious artifacts crammed

Nietzsche Understood the Roots of Scientism

> Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as science "without any presuppositions" . . . a philosophy, a "faith," must always be there first, so that science can acquire from it a direction, a meaning, a limit, a method, a right to exist . . . It is still metaphysical faith

Zossima's Love

Keeping with our off-beat fare this week, we thought we'd present one of favorite passages from Dostoyevsky's writing. It's found in the “Thoughts and Teachings of the Elder Zossima” of The Brothers Karamazov. Fr. Zossima, the revered elder of Alyosha Karamazov, is dying.

Promiscuous and Lovin' It

> "Until fairly recently," writes welfare scholar James Payne, "girls who got 'in trouble' were whispered about–and expelled from school. Seeing this social disapproval, other girls made a great effort to avoid pregnancy. Today programs like free day care for student mothers make unwed

An Ecumenical Moment

For rock-n-roll fans out there with a penchant for things Jewish, you may want to check out Jews Rock [http://jewsrock.org/]. We can't say we're highly impressed with their assortment of Semitic rockers, though. One article refers to the "Holy Trinity of

PSA

For the next week, readers will probably notice that TDE is different. There will be fewer posts and the fare will be a little odd. Eric Scheske will be on undercover assignment in Mogadishu, Somalia to recover holy relics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church that were stolen by Mamelukes in

Real, Real Southern Blog

We like to point out unique blogs, so we bring you this: a blog from Antarctica. Link [http://simonc.f2o.org/south/]. Excerpt: > Wednesday 1 June 2005 Fun at -50C > Yesterday the temperature dropped to -52.6C (that's -62.7F). Even for Halley that's

Why Should Bloggers Blog?

> According to Maximus the Great, there are three different purposes for which gifted men write without fault or constraint: the first, as memoranda for themselves; the second, for the benefit of others; the third, for obedience. With this last purpose many writings have been composed for those who humbly

Something for Sunday Morning

> Drive from the soul the vain thoughts about wealth, the excitement and distress related to it, the worries that are the thorns of existence and that suffocate the seed of life. Clement of Alexandra.