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Eric Scheske

Wednesday

Put that in Your Pipe Everyone wants to be a leader. Bloomberg is the leader of the smoking Nazis: "Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation into law today that bans smoking in many public spaces around the five boroughs. Under the new law, smoking will be banned in the city&

Margins?

I occasionally receive emails from TDE readers, telling me that the right-hand margin is all screwed up. I have never experienced this problem, and my web consultant tells me he has no idea why/how it could be happening. I'm curious to know how rampant it is. Please

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly They bilk people out of billions with impunity. They get bailed out. America is there for Wall Street, and DC is feeding it the sheople's money. Rolling Stone magazine's take. . . more>> [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216?print=

Something for Sunday Morning

"Be the living expression of God's kindness--kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your warm greeting." Mother Teresa

BYCU

Loko Legislatures Bans against alcohol energy drinks have picked up steam, and it looks like the legislatures are trying "one-up" each other in their prohibitions. Consider Iowa: "The caffeinated frenzy has also spread to Iowa (House File 25 and Senate File 1) where caffeine in liquor, wine

Thursday

Random Thursday Remember last month's post about breathing and meditation ("Woe the Man with Halitosis [https://thedailyeudemon.com/17498/]")? I mentioned that breathing has played a big role in the meditation practices of many religions, but not, from what I could tell, in Catholicism. It looks

Wednesday

Labor v. Leisure There's a thing called the "disutility of labor." It's a fancy phrase that basically means people prefer leisure over labor. We constantly see people make current sacrifices in order to get advantages later, and one of the principle advantages is leisure.

TDE News Flash

Even the Grey Lady now acknowledges the looming problem of rising prices: Companies Raise Prices as Commodity Costs Jump [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/business/15prices.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw&pagewanted=print] . Stock up on everything. Now. I suspect

Tuesday

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly "You wanna touch my Oscar? It'll light up my life." Hollywood egomaniac becomes convicted rapist. His son faces felony murder charges. . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/features/71271/] Operating Thetan VII leaves Scientology because it won't embrace

Monday

More on Paul Kinda significant: The Washington Post ran a version of that Slate article on Ron Paul [http://www.slate.com/id/2284503/pagenum/all/#p2] over the weekend: Ron Paul, opponent of the Fed and fan of the gold standard, a lone wolf no more [http://www.washingtonpost.