Eric Scheske

It's bad enough that they restrict the right to see naked dancers, but the ordinance then coerces people into acting like artists. More fascism and oppression. Link [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050405/D899F0DG0.html]. Excerpt: "Art night at Erotic City apparently wasn't artistic enough.

We earlier linked to an review in Slate of Kazuo Ishiguoro's new novel, Never Let Me Go. The Atlantic this month also praises it, saying "modern desperation regarding death, combined with technological advances and the natural human capacity for self-serving fictions and evasions . . . could easily give

All right, we've come to a momentous decision: we're going to allow comments, starting now. As we mentioned on Saturday, traffic isn't a problem, but we are concerned with the twin problems of nuts and cranks. After much deliberation and beer, we've

Welcome to The Daily Eudemon., formerly The Wednesday Eudemon. We're still working out some kinks, but this is our new format. We hope you like it. We'll resume our regular posting Thursday morning.

Girls Gone Wild II All right, we're posting this, but we're not convinced that it's real. Procedurally, it has all the signs of authenticity, but its substance is ridiculous. It's a supposed press release from Women's Church-Convergence. The funnier

A Blogger PSA Allow us to do some dirty work for our fellow bloggers. Have you seen those blog “Google Ads”? It is our understanding that a blogger receives a small amount of money every time a viewer “clicks through” one of the ads. So if you're on

Multi-Tasking and Interrupting A reader of Eric Scheske's Wednesday column at Catholic Exchange [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=28068] writes, “I know a lot of people who multi-task, and can agree with you that its effects are insidious.

In the Spirit of Aldous Huxley? Kazuo Ishiguro has written a new novel: Never Let Me Go. Slate provides a compelling review of this eerie and chilly novel about cloned children. Based on the review, let's hope this novel resonates as loudly with us as Upton Sinclair'

A Clothesline Tackle We enjoy the mini-essay about little things. Belloc was good at it (there's a passage in The Path to Rome about windows that we've been meaning to post during one of the slow weekends). Jeff Cumbert at Hallowed Ground [http://hallowedground.blog-

Carlyle's Cash Nexus Strikes Again! A father is selling videotapes of his serial killer son's confession. LINK [http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3675980,00.html] . Who cares about making money off what should be great shame (the contestants on Fear Factor