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Eric Scheske

Brews You Can Use

Before BYCU, a moment of commemoration: This is my 6,000th post. Yes, 6,000. I don't know whether to celebrate or bemoan that I don't have a life. I think the longevity is finally paying off, though. It would appear that TDE brings in over

Logical Muslims

Sounds logical enough [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344409,00.html]: > A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque asks why Allah would tell Muslims to kill and rape innocent non-Muslims, including their wives and daughters, according to Islam Watch.

Thursday

I don't buy or lease new cars, so I couldn't participate in the Ford boycott. Procter and Gamble? I couldn't keep track of their products adequately to be an effective boycotter. Wal-Mart? Hard to avoid with a large family. But this one? They&

Also Known As Day

Religious Discrimination in the Work Force Act. Also called, "Why I'll Probably End Up Voting for the Republicans in November, Even Though I Don't Really Want To": Ted "Moral Crusader" Kennedy is pushing for legislation that prohibits discrimination against gays in the

Meeting the Anti-Pope

Deal Hudson had a nice chat with the Reverend Hagee. After reading his account, I'm inclined to think the Reverend is terribly misguided but sincere, anti-Catholic but not on purpose, perhaps too judgmental ("Hey, what about you, Scheske?!") but capable of great kindness. Check it

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

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