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Eric Scheske

Election Tuesday

I don't hold out much hope for McCain, but he has made up a remarkable amount of ground these recently. According to the Yahoo Election page, at least three states have turned red in the past three days, and McCain has closed the gap considerably in many key

From the Notebooks. Feature Essay

The Social Law My son and daughter are teenagers. The prospect brings back one recurring memory: my teenage years. And it's more than a little disconcerting. I wasn't a bad teenager, but I did things that would simply be unacceptable today. I'm referring primarily

Something for Sunday Morning

"To succumb to human respect is to give more weight to someone else's opinion than to the teachings of Christ." Francis Fernandez

No Blogging Saturday

Enjoyable evening yesterday: weather warm, nice night for children. But allow me the annual rant: It's Halloween, the children's favorite holiday after Christmas. TURN YOUR LIGHTS ON AND HAND OUT $4 WORTH OF CANDY! At least half the houses on our route didn't hand

The Haunted Pub

A second installment of Brews You Can Use [http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-30-boo_N.htm?csp=34].

Brews You Can Use

Best site I found this week: Bum Wine [http://www.bumwine.com/]. Thunderbird, Mad Dog. Enlightening and entertaining stuff. Sample: Night Train is all business when it pulls into the station. All aboard to nowhere - woo wooo! The night train runs only one route: sober to stupid with no roundtrip

Best Election Blog Post of 2008

Four ways Obama will raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 [http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/senator_obamas_four_tax_increa.html]. Excerpt: > The first loophole was easy to find: Senator Obama doesn't "count" allowing the Bush tax cuts to lapse as

October 28th Bites

Save on pumpkins [http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html]. __________ What are people wearing this year for Halloween? Forbes breaks it down: Palin, Obama, McCain, Joe the Plumber, Speedo Phelps [http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106037/Who-Profits-From-Halloween?] . __________ Also from Forbes: How to treat

From the Notebooks

Why I Don't Know What I Am Conservative? Liberal? Republican? Democrat? Libertarian? Is it me, or is it a topsy-turvey political scene out there? I can't look at any group and say, “I think like they do.” I can look at a few and say,

Schizoid Catholics

Adulterer behind me, adulterer in front of me. Both freshly unrepentant. All three of us at Mass to celebrate First Communion with our sons. My distaste for American Catholicism spiked at that Mass, but it started long before, back before my conversion in 1991, when I was a Lutheran enamored