Eric Scheske

Two pregnant women were killed this week, one in New York and one in Texas. The New York slaying was apparently a lover's squabble. We haven't heard of any leads in the Texas case. Then there's the gruesome attack a few months ago on

The following piece is a little graphic. Written for a mainline Catholic publication, it was understandably rejected on grounds that the subject matter is too sexual and the tone a bit too strident. It's not the type of thing we like to present regularly on TWE, either, but

Issue XII Well, things have gone well for TWE. Our visitors/hits goals that we hoped to meet by the beginning of Spring have been greatly exceeded. Many thanks to y'all for visiting, reading, and forwarding TWE to friends and family, especially those who don't otherwise

The Weekend Eudemon - Sunday We Thought It Was a Joke According to a January Associated Press dispatch, an outfit called Rent-a-Priest supplies independent Catholic clergy to perform Mass on cruise ships, even though the reason why some are independent is that they're no longer in good

The Weekend Eudemon ”“ Saturday Welcome back to The Weekend Eudemon. You apparently made it here without the benefit of an e-mail reminder. We don't send them out on the weekends, primarily because we don't want to be a pest, but also because TWE (with the

The Weekend Eudemon ”“ Friday The Prospect of Death Wonderfully Focuses the Mind From the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/281711p-241383c.html]: "Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova says the tsunami that crumpled her body and killed her boyfriend has transformed her life - and she

Issue XI In case you missed it, we're posting at least twice a week now: once on Wednesdays (obviously) and one or more times on the weekends. The latter, we call The Weekend Eudemon. More details can be found at the end of this week's issue.

The Weekend Eudemon No, you're not on LSD. We've posted on a non-Wednesday. We're calling it The Weekend Eudemon because (i) it allows us to keep the same initials and (ii) we're too lazy to come up with an entirely new

Issue X From Groundhog Day to Ash Wednesday. The temperament swings quickly on this page. Kinda like its talent level. It's now the penitential season, of course. It's made particularly more difficult by Mardi Gras excesses (those Catholics are always sticking it to you somehow: eat

Issue IX A Groundhog Day issue. On this auspicious occasion, we remember the prognosticating groundhog's vicious-but-forgotten cousin, the hodag. The hodag was a dreadful and strong beast that terrorized the logging camps of the nineteenth century. It had great iron teeth, a long flat tail of