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Eric Scheske

Monday Miscellany

Planned Parenthood constantly sets the free sex and fewer children bar higher. Dawn Eden has assembled a great set of PP ads [http://www.dawneden.com/2007/12/ad-nauseam-part-1-around-world-with.html], like this one: I really like this one when juxtaposed against the one above: They love children, as long as

Something for Sunday Morning

"The first saints were shepherds." St. Augustine

Saturday Stuff

Pleasant evening Friday. Nothing was going on. I came home from work, tapped into a six pack of Fletcher Street Brewery [http://fletcherstreetbrewing.com/] Wheat Ale that my father brought back for me from Alpena, Michigan and read The Life You Save May Be Your Own [http://www.amazon.com/

Brews You Can Use

Ten unexpected uses for beer [http://www.gomestic.com/Homeowners/10-Unexpected-Uses-for-Beer.61788]. The list is a bit disturbing and irreverent of the beer gods, but it's interesting. Don't use real beer for any of these things. I recommend Budweiser. __________ I don't know how I

St. Nicholas, the Janitor Pianist, and Multitasking

December 6: St. Nicholas's feast day. John Zmirak writes everything you need to know [http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_real_st_nicholas/]. Excerpt: > The association of Nicholas with gift-giving isn't entirely arbitrary. Some of the earliest accounts of his life include the charming

The Wednesday Eudemon

I'm a little strapped for time again today. I took the three oldest boys to the high school basketball opener. It's "free" ($175 all-sports family pass), two of my boys love sports, the other was playing in the pep band, I know a few

Electronic Holy Cards

Commercialized? Yes. Crass? I don't think so. Bad? No [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071204/tc_nm/italy_saints_cellphones_dc]. > If you are a Catholic looking for a saint in heaven to protect you, you no longer have to carry a small "holy card.

PSA

A TDE Reader sends this along: > I thought you might be interested in watching the music video that a group of students from my local Catholic high school submitted to the Wells Fargo contest. Their video is in first place at this time. The winning video is to be

Tuesday Lite

Light day. I was on kid duty last night. We rushed through chores, prayers, teeth brushing, and everything else, so we'd be ready for The Year without a Santa Claus [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072424/]. Dancing and singing along to the best animated scene in Christmas TV

Monday Miscellany

The young-but-reliable-and-smart Nick Milne saw an advanced viewing of The Golden Compass. Here's his review [http://gentlefuss.blogspot.com/2007/12/film-review-golden-compass.html]. He also put together bullet points especially interesting to Catholics and sent it to Ignatius Insight [http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2007/12/a-report-on-the.html]