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Eric Scheske

Friday

The Gift So I'm standing at my office window yesterday, talking with an acquaintance about some pro bono project (not my favorite thing--I'm still a few halos short of sainthood). The mailman walks in and hands me a package. My interlocutor must've thought

McLuhan is 100

http://www.observer.com/2011/07/marshall-mccluhan-at-100-you-know-nothing-of-my-work/

Thursday

Reader Comments Reader comments are beginning to come in. The most common theme: The book isn't what you'd expect. It's not a book about getting drunk and "barfin' all over your girlfriend's shoes" (The Eagles, "The Greeks Don&

Wednesday

The Shuttering I learned recently that one of my favorite bars closed in northern Michigan. My uncle owned it back in the 1980s, and it was a solid business. We were talking about it during my family's golf outing last week, and my brother, who was recently in

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Clearer visions from afar: Obama does not want to go down in history as the president who bankrupted America “so the only alternative is another unsavory deal – the 'kick the can down the road' solution, as American politicians like to call it. “The debt limit will be raised

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly BogotÃ¡, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Karachi, Katmandu, Lima, Manila, Mexico City, New Delhi, Quito, and Tehran: Where 1 million people could die in thirty seconds. . . . more>> [http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_earthquakes.html] BYCU for CALW: Archeology shedding

Monday

Bad Movie Well, just when I think Hollywood can't produce anything worse (than Scott Pilgrim), it comes out with Zookeeper. Holy moley, it was bad. I didn't want to go (one magazine said the movie will "appeal only to hard-core Kevin James fans"

Something for Sunday Morning

“[P]atience must always lie at the center of leisure, for reality does not disclose its secrets to careless, hasty, or indifferent scrutiny.” David Baily Harned

Friday

Wow, there's a boat load of BYCU stories out there right now. So many, in fact, that I have a big announcement ("big" used loosely): BYCU will now become a daily feature at TDE, with the exception of Sundays and Mondays. But full disclosure: If I

Thursday

It's the 35th Annual Scheske Open today. I golf only once a year, and today's the day. I'm a little wiped out right now, due to the Open Eve festivities, so just an abbreviated TDE today. First, the Kindle for PC is easy to