Detroit
Here's a blog worth visiting if you're from Michigan: Detroitblog
[http://www.detroitblog.org/]. It's neat, but it's hard to explain why it's
neat. It celebrates a broken city, and it doesn't hide the decay. In fact, it
Eric Scheske
Monday Moanin'
Well, you're going to see this all over the web today, so I might as well chime
in: Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious
denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio
Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released
Something for Sunday Morning
“Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in
his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of invisible and visible winged
seeds, so the stream of time brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that
come to rest imperceptibly in the
Saturday Stuff
Company weekend. Marie's brother is taking his sons (7 and 9) to Kalamazoo's Air
Zoo for a cub/tiger scout outing. He dropped off his wife and daughter at our
place last night. He's coming back today. I mention it because Andy read the
Brews You Can Use
Nasty bar fight last night. I was having a nice dinner with my wife, when this
troglidytic group of thugs came in and started picking a fight with me. I
ignored them, until one of them winked at my wife (he may have had something in
his eye; hard to
Thursday Miscellany
Relaxing time. I'm experiencing my first breather at the office in over three
months. I plan on meeting my wife and another couple for dinner after work,
drink a few big mugs, get up tomorrow morning and knock out a piece with a
looming deadline, go to Mass,
The Wednesday Eudemon
18 things a man doesn't have
[http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=life.lessons&conitem=2c3f60783e998110VgnVCM20000012281eac____]
. It's a pretty good list, but I don't agree with all of them (what's wrong a
Tuesday Trifles
Why do men cheat? Here are the Top Five reasons
[http://health.yahoo.com/experts/menlovesex/88222/your-mans-infidelity-triggers/]
. I like number three:
> I'm not saying it's right, and I'm not saying it's fair, but some men can feel
Easter Monday (Moanin')
Long weekend, short blog post. For some reason, I was dragging all Saturday and
Sunday. I slept in this morning, leaving me with little time for blogging.
Easter went well. It was also Tess' (3) birthday. A three-year-old in the house,
and Marie is not pregnant. Is
Holy Saturday
By killing Jesus, Satan had swallowed God's bait. He didn't know he had
swallowed the Godhead, thereby inviting Full Being into his fortress of
nothingness and bringing about the ontological fall of his nothingness. In the
words of St. Gregory of Nyssa: “The Godhead hid under