Eric Scheske

Another Alternative Lifestyle Well, it has happened. We always joked about punk rockers with their fishing tackle boxes hanging from their face: "If they wanna mess themselves up, why don't they get serious and amputate an arm? That's really messed up." It turns out

Holy Thursday In order to accomplish salvation in a manner that permitted human nature to cooperate in its own fulfillment, a man–Jesus–needed to undergo an ontological privation. Jesus would have to give his being in order to restore our being, analogous to dirt being taken from a hill

Honey, Who Shrank Our Daughters? You have a daughter going to college? Check out the last half of this article [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/002/10.37.html]. It seems things have gotten worse at sororities since Eric Scheske frequented them (heh heh heh) in the 1980s, but

The Crowd in Front Will Run Faster PETA is sponsoring a “running of the nudes.” LINK [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-3-2005_pg9_4]. Excerpt: “The annual 'running of the bulls' in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona could get some serious

Just Shaking Hands When we heard that San Franciso had banned handshakes following female soccer games (LINK [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/23/BAGCTBTCDG1.DTL]), we assumed the post-game tradition had turned erotic. Turns out it's just the opposite:

Hey, Placenta Head! While waiting for Mrs. Scheske to go through the labor game, Eric talked with the attendant nurses about birthing stories. None of the stories beat the one about the guy who wanted to take the placenta with him. He had heard it was a cure for baldness.

We're No Luddites TWE now has an RSS feed (see the XML box below, on the right side). An RSS feed is basically a form of technology that checks sites for changes. If we post a change to TWE, the RSS feed will tell you about it. Many

Modesty in Fashion? We saw this at the Mommentary blog site [http://mommentary.blogspot.com/]. After years of twisting our necks while driving down the road or twisting our brains in resistance to the neck twisting, we'd love to see some modesty return to fashion. We're

Tinsel Chimps It's common knowledge that monkeys engage in sodomy. It used to be one of the gay quarter's favorite arguments: "It's so natural, monkeys do it!" They also hit each other over the head with rocks, but no matter. Assuming chimps

Black Oil on White Snow We've never hugged a tree, cried for a seal, or taunted a lumberjack, but we've had misgivings about the renewed plunder of nature in the name of material wealth and the American “way of life.” Mostly, we dislike the de-greening