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Eric Scheske

Spooky Post

Sexy Halloween If you haven't heard, Halloween is number two. At almost $7 billion a year in sales, Americans are spending more on Halloween than on any other holiday except Christmas. Want a 2-foot-tall zombie that pulls off its head? You can get it for $100.

Tuesday

Making Fun of The One? The comedians are supposedly beginning to make jokes about Obama [http://tv.yahoo.com/news/article/tv.tvguide.com/latenight-comedians-turning-obama-20091011] . That's gotta be hard for them, like joking about one's own mother, but maybe they're

Monday

Five Twitters 1. Niche blog of the month goes to: Brian Leiter's Nietzsche Blog [http://www.brianleiternietzsche.blogspot.com/]. If you enjoy alliteration, you might call it a "Nietzsche niche for fans of the nephalistic nullifidian." Via [http://philosophybites.com/]. My digital friend Nick Milne once

Something for Sunday Morning

"There is never a moment when there is not some virtue to be practiced." de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence.

Nobel

A reader sends this link: http://nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/process.html It says Nobel nominations must be received by February 1st. Obama got nominated after being president for less than two weeks? -- Mobile post

BYCU

A Guy's Dream Good-lookin', drinks beer, and knows her place: A Muslim model has been sentenced to six cane strokes for drinking a beer [http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,653578,00.html]. Her actions were pretty insidious: > The young women in the

Thursday

The Misanthrope Wow, it's not often you absorb as much hatred as you'll find here: Gore Vidal in his final years [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gore-vidals-united-states-of-fury-1798601.html] . The novelist-Al Gore cousin-homosexual is one shockingly

Fidrych

My Tigers try to avoid the humiliation of one of history's bigger meltdowns tonight. I thought it'd be a good time to run this piece. The Bird's Swan Dive On days like that, you didn't dare drink too much beer in old

What's A Guy Gotta Do to Get a Drink Around Here?

The Distiller and the Bureaucrat I have a friend out in the stix [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=out%20in%20the%20styx]. He has neighbors, but it's definitely rural; nothing but woods and fields. He's an individualist with a unique personality, but lots of

Something for Sunday Morning

"Guilt is a reality, an objective force; it has caused destruction that must be repaired. For this reason, forgiveness must be more than a matter of ignoring, of merely trying to forget." Benedict XVI.