Eric Scheske

Posts will be light this morning. Eric Scheske is shaking off a bender. Relax, just jokin'. He's going to be tied up at the hospital for awhile. (Later edit: We'll be back to normal posting by 9:30. )

Here's a reasonably-humorous article that lists 21 observations by a Disney World lover. LINK [http://www.techcentralstation.com/041805A.html]. A few excerpts: > You can get away with almost anything if you're riding in a wheelchair. But, if you're riding in a

"Extreme Christian Clothing stores in Topeka, Kan., and Lawrence sell T-shirts with messages like 'Satan Sucks,' 'My God can kick your god's butt,' and 'To Hell with the Devil.'" LINK [http://www.wsoctv.com/irresistible/4388079/detail.html]

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri is getting opened up after many years. It's possible that hundreds of lost Greek comedies, tragedies and epic poems will soon be revealed. Excerpt: > In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it to make a series of astonishing discoveries,

We can't think of anything to add that would make this story more humorous or more telling about the arrogance of much modern art and its practitioners: > An artist who randomly vandalised nearly 50 cars as part of a project said yesterday the owners should be happy

"An Episcopal priest who resigned from a Downingtown [Pennsylvania] church last fall after his ties to a Druid society were made public has renounced his Episcopal ordination and become a Druid priest." LINK [http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/11397667.htm] (registration required). The priest and

Funny op-ed in the Telegraph today about "being to the right of Genghis Kahn." LINK [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;sessionid=VPREN1CNOPVJ3QFIQMGSM5OAVCBQWJVC?xml=/opinion/2005/04/18/dl1803.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/18/ixportal.html] . Excerpt: > But does Genghis really deserve

Yet another instance of colleges gone wild, this time at UC Berkeley, supposedly one of the finest public institutions in the country. LINK. [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/16/BAG0PC9U621.DTL] > The [frat brothers] took the [pledge] to a room and stripped

Los Angeles has a new homeless shelter. LINK [http://csmonitor.com/2005/0418/p01s01-uspo.html]. Excerpt: > Opening Monday and trumpeted proudly by city officials is the Midnight Mission - and one of the nation's plushest homeless shelters. The $17 million state-of-the-art facility boasts a

It's a new angle on an old passion: computer rage. In a time when most everyone depends on computers for most everything, anger is mounting when things go wrong. We gotta believe McLuhan would really enjoy this type of phenomenon. LINK [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?