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Eric Scheske

Abbreviated Eudemon

I covered a special town meeting last night for the law firm. The topic: A proposed casino on the south side of town. Last night was public comment night. About 25 people stood up and voiced their opinion: some for, some against, some with questions. All in all, a good

Wednesday Miscellany

Gorgeous day yesterday: 62, sunny, breezy. Hardly February weather, but a nice piece of compensation for an absolutely wretched November-January stretch. I did most of my favorite warm weather things: read on the front porch, talked with my kids on the front porch, shot baskets with my kids, went

From the Notebooks: Feature Essay

Stepping Out with the President Back in 2007, the secularists were giddy over the possibility that three of the big-name Republicans contemplating a presidency run have questionable pasts: John McCain (affair, divorce), Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce), and Rudy Giuliani (divorce, affair, divorce). One writer refers to them

Something for Sunday Morning

"Allowing ourselves to be helped is a wonderful way of learning humility." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God

Brews You Can Use

Not much today for drinking news. I went home sick yesterday from the office, with the result that I need to put in a full day today (I normally work from my home on Fridays). I do my BYCU blogging Friday mornings, but this week, that morning needs to be

From the Notebooks

I've been re-reading a few pages of de Lubac's Drama of Atheist Humanism; specifically, the beginning pages about Nietzsche. I was struck by Nietzsche's division of the great majority of men into two categories: the believers and common atheists, both of whom, Nietzsche

From the Highlighter: John Senior II

The Restoration of Christian Culture [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932528164/thedailyeudem-20] [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932528164/thedailyeudem-20] John Senior [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932528164/thedailyeudem-20] More passages: “work, prayer, sacrifice. Those are the items on the Catholic Agenda.

From the Highlighter: John Senior

The Restoration of Christian Culture [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932528164/thedailyeudem-20] [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932528164/thedailyeudem-20] Well, whatta drag. This post was up all day, then I went to make some changes and the whole thing got deleted. I'm

Odd Super Bowl Lines

My nephew assures me that the various over-unders in this post are real: > In all honesty I'm not rally sure if I'll be betting on the Super Bowl. I think the Steelers win, and if I had to bet I'd say they

Something for Super Bowl Sunday Morning

"The experiences of watching high-level sporting events might cause the viewer to see how something is good and exists for its own sake, and if he sees this, he can understand something about God." James Schall (see [http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=15-04-