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Eric Scheske

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.

Something for Sunday Morning

"Slander is worse than cannibalism." St. John Chrysostom

Stuff for Saturday

Armaggedon cometh: The editor of Gilbert Magazine (the magazine I used to edit) is a punk rock fan. From a great post at his blog, The Blue Boar [http://theblueboar.blogspot.com/2007/11/punk-rock-and-chestertonian-thinking.html] : > Punk as a genre arose simultaneously in America and

Looking for Blogs

I have an odd request this time: I'm looking for the best Catholic blogs that don't get updated every day or even regularly. These might be hard to find, since irregular posting usually means low popularity. Still, if you know of a talented blogger out there

Brews You Can Use

A neat assortment of beer pictures [http://beerblog.genx40.com/a/christmasphoto] . The blogger says they're Christmas beer pictures, but the scope doesn't seem quite that narrow. __________ Conviviality's last stand. People may be bowling alone, but they're drinking together: The American Homebrewers

Polish Ad Controversy and Sundry

Ad controversy in Poland: The 30-second animated commercial depicts the Magi visiting the Christ Child, with a 4th wise man bearing Red Bull [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55014]. The ad doesn't offend me, but doggone it, why must the corporate advertisers trivialize (and

Black Wednesday Again?

It's not black because of drinking. It's black because Charter Communications has once again gone down. In all fairness to Charter, it's been months since it has gone down, but (i) if experience is an indicator, this crash portends a series of crashes over

Tuesday Trifles

The sterile environmentalists [http://quaffsandquibbles.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-will-they-think-of-next.html] . One of the top ten short (under 250 words) blog posts of the year. __________ Op-ed of the day: Families are good for cities and cities better be good to families [http://www.opinionjournal.

Monday Miscellany

Whew, whirlwind weekend. We went [the "w" alliteration ends now] to Detroit Thursday afternoon to see my wife's family: First a stop in Livonia at her aunt's, then to her parents' in Grosse Pointe Woods. Friday morning, Grosse Pointe parade, followed by a