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Eric Scheske

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There is a new Barbie doll called Hello Barbie that is a high-tech interactive version of the toy. The Hello Barbie has more than 8,000 phrases she uses to keep up conversation with you. In order for it to work, you have to speak right into her breasts. For

Fallon

In Pope Francis' latest weekly address, he criticized people who use their phones at the dinner table. Which begs the question: Who is on their phone while they eat dinner with the Pope? In a new interview, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will be more intelligent than humans in 10

Wednesday

What, you say, I referenced Romano Guardini yesterday but then wrote nothing about him, instead dedicating the day's primary post to Dostoyevsky? What am I, some sort of Serbian Orthodox with an anti-Catholic chip on my shoulder? No, not at all, but yesterday's post had already

Tuesday

Hey, Pope Francis and I have something in common: admiration for Dostoyevsky and Guardini [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/what-pope-francis-has-to-say-about-dostoyevsky-and-guardini-76130/?utm_source=hootsuite] . I went on a major Fyodor kick in my twenties. I read all his major works (except The Idiot, which, for some reason, I could never penetrate)

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling I received a copy of Merchants in the Temple [http://us.macmillan.com/merchantsinthetemple/gianluiginuzzi], which I've started reading. Expect commentary as I plow through. * * * * * * * TDE readers know I enjoy running good jokes from the late night shows, but man, they've been awful lately.

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> Facebook keeps removing satyrical photo of Mizzou "cribullies". Retweet it. #MizzouHoax [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MizzouHoax?src=hash] #Mizzou [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mizzou?src=hash] #MissouriProtests [https://twitter.com/hashtag/MissouriProtests?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/5wW6rkIFqN [https://t.co/5wW6rkIFqN] > — James Parisi (@NY_2_

Humorous, Interesting, and Frustrating

H.I.F. How bad was the racism at the University of Missouri? Pretty bad: an incident every 800 days. First the Michael Sam charade then this debacle. Missouri has become a joke. Well, all higher education is a joke, but somehow, Missouri has gotten itself in the idiot vanguard.

Saturday

Paris The Paris horror [http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/11/paris-attack/415953/?utm_source=SFTwitter] . I'm just shaking my head. Western imperial policies over the past 100 years and a religion rife with violence have combined to create a terrible, terrible situation. Part of me just

Friday

BYCU Booze lists often leave me cold. Even though I like lists and like booze, it seems many of the lists are, well, "contrived." I'm not sure that's the correct word, but almost like the authors are just reaching for script to fill their

Thursday

I enjoy works that impart broader truths in the context of a narrower subject. A great example from Kingsley Amis' Everyday Drinking: > Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a