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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use: Special Black Wednesday Edition

Ah, the best time of the year: A four-day weekend yawns in front of America, as do an assortment of drinks. This college student tries to assess why people drink so much on Thanksgiving Eve [http://www.campussqueeze.com/post/Why-Thanksgiving-Eve-is-the-Biggest-Drinking-Night-of-the-Year.aspx] . The writer totally misses the reason and is

Tuesday Miscellany

The holidays approach. Not much time for blogging, and not much bloggable information out there. Personal responsibility took another step back: Canada ruled that fat people must get a free extra plane ticket [http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=977633] and Citibank got more money [http://www.iht.

Something for Sunday Morning

"Every sin, if persisted in, will become heinous." Samuel Johnson

Brews You Can Use

My office is uprooting to prepare for new carpeting and my house is going to have 20 overnight guests this weekend, plus another ten or so guests Saturday evening (my oldest is getting confirmed). I don't have much time for blogging, but I found this great feature article

Thursday Miscellany

Well, the Dow dropped below 8,000 [http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081119/wall_street.html?.v=49]. Panic time? Naw, I'm past that. I panicked 15 months ago and sold off a chunk, and I panicked last February and sold off a large chunk. Now I'

Early Christmas

I'm jammed at the office right now. All I have today is a sneak preview of my family's Christmas card: (TDE returns to a white background tomorrow.)

From the Highlighter

I read a lot. It's a trait I inherited from my parents. But one thing about my reading deviates sharply from theirs. Whereas they keep their library in good shape, its shelves lined handsomely with hardbacks, my library mostly carries secondhand paperbacks. Whereas their books are clean: no

Something for Sunday Morning

"Unless one is well on the road to holiness, it is very difficult in the midst of a daily routine to see things in perspective, as they really are." Thomas Dubay, Saints: A Closer Look

Brews You Can Use

Perhaps the only must-have book of the coming holiday season [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789317966/thedailyeudem-20]. From the description: "Christmas beers, also known as Winter Warmers, are a tradition dating back at least 2,000 years, with the ancients making highly intoxicating brews to celebrate winter&

Just Say It

Bishops plan to confront Obama [http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/religion/chi-081111bishops,0,615284.story] . From Tuesday's Chicago Tribunal: > Though the document made clear that "the direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life is always wrong and is not just one issue among many,"