Eric Scheske

Nerd War We like Wikipedia, but we don't rely on it much. We mostly use it to confirm our memory; we are uncomfortable accepting uncorroborated information from it. For those not acquainted with this on-line encyclopedia, it is written and edited by anyone who wants to write

The Weekend Eudemon Eric Scheske has had a good twelve hours. No baby yet, but he killed seven beers in anticipation. Also, Vermont, Bucknell, and Villanova all won yesterday. Eric drafted all three in an NCAA basketball team auction earlier this week. Their victories have advanced Eric's dreams

The Chesterbelloc G.K. Chesterton blogs have come and gone, but we've never seen a Chesterbelloc blog. It looks like one has been started. Named On Nothing after an entertaining essay by Hilaire Belloc, it's less than one week old. LINK [http://onnothing.blogspot.com/] It

AMA Alternative Perhaps all Christians should ask their doctors: Do you belong to the AMA or the CMA? "Do we want to reinforce the fear that the infirm are no more than a burden on the healthy? We need to send a message that even in our darkest hours,

Music and (Very Little) Talk Radio Here's a WSJ article [http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB111111009578183338-IdjfYNjlaN4opynbIGHb62Fm5,00.html] about the radio industry's Canutin' efforts with regard to iPod and satellite radio (and, as pointed out in an article linked here Tuesday, additional

The Wizard of Os Os Guinness has written a new book: Unspeakable: Understanding & Resisting Evil in an Age of Genocide & Terrorism. Christianity Today interviewed him about the book [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/110/42.0.html]. Here's a nice nutshell statement from Guinness about

Politics in Sports The following is from a 1990 essay by Murray Rothbard [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard73.html]. It reminds us of our earlier musings about the efforts of ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and other media to push homosexuality into sports. It also reminds us of the effort every

Da Vinci Code Stuff Catholics would learn more about theology and history from Monty Python and the Holy Grail than from The Da Vinci Code. Those, supposedly, the words of a priest being interviewed on ABC News. Funny and apt. Lifted from Open Book [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/].

Friday's Brews You Can Use Molson has announced a new beer [http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=930adece-4663-4b46-9467-b968ed87e276] , "Molson Kick." It's made with guarana, a natural source of caffeine. Guarana is a fruit. Hmmm? We like

Die for Feminists Ann Coulter has nicely thrashed feminists [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20050317.shtml] in light of the Atlanta shooting. Of course, she uses common sense in her piece, so it won't carry much weight, but here are some excerpts: “How many people have to