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Eric Scheske

Monday Miscellany

A lot of shoveling yesterday, and a lot of Doans today. My back is killing me and I'd rather stay home and take it easy, but the office calls. Fortunately, I have a very good chair ($1,000 chair that I got for $100 because the manufacturer put

Something for Sunday Morning

"A gloomy soul is at the mercy of many temptations." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God

Stuff for Sporadic Saturday

Reminder: I don't blog on Saturdays. I haven't been for about three months. Though I've blogged every Saturday for the last three months, I'm not blogging on Saturdays. If that makes sense, you drank more beer than I did last night at

Spend All You Want, ESU: We Got You Covered

Praise the Wall Street Journal! It says something that nobody else wants to say: The federal government is driving up college tuition costs, to the detriment of middle-class families [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010983]: > Tuition has risen about three percentage points faster than inflation

Brews You Can Use

Put a fork in my head. Over two hours spent at the 6th, 7th, 8th grade and high school Christmas band concert. I swear the bulk of it was spent watching the different groups warm up. Limited time this morning, but a few things: The 12 Beers of Christmas [http:

Thursday Bites

Braver than me [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3026030.ece]: > An imam's daughter whose family threatened to kill her after she converted to Christianity at the age of 16 has told The Times that, because of her faith, she is not afraid to die.

The Wednesday Eudemon

What could possibly go wrong? > Asia's largest statue of Jesus Christ, measuring nearly 100 feet tall, has been unveiled in Manado, Indonesia [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=55281]. > Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, with almost 86% of

Tuesday Trifles

Mass killers are atheists? That's what this popular and insightful blogger has observed [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/12/atheist-killers.html]: > Large-scale murder or small-scale slaughter, it's simply amazing how often these killers turn out to be explicit atheists, especially given the

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:

Something for Sunday Morning

"The first saints were shepherds." St. Augustine