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Eric Scheske

Tuesday Trifles

And when we're done huffing this crap, we'll drink the bong water [http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/jenkem.asp]. Freaks. Smoking Gun story on same topic [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1105072jenkem1.html] . . . . A Mesa woman was arrested Saturday after police said she

Mass Length and Sundry Other

21. That's the number of clocks in my house. Ten of them re-set themselves automatically (computers, cell phones, and my clock radio), but the others required reaches and ladders, and one is a finer clock that can't be wound backwards. A small cross, this daylight savings

Something for Sunday Morning

"Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to God and to his neighbor." St. Aelred of Rievaulx

A Leno

"The Atlanta International Airport is now considering shorter flushes in its bathrooms to help cope with the drought. Shorter flushes on their toilets. Or as Sen. Larry Craig calls that, speed dating."

Something for Saturday

"In the presence of the Gospel, Nietzsche's immediate and profound reaction was--it must be admitted--jealousy. It does not seem to me that Nietzsche's work can be really understood without allowing for that feeling. Nietzsche was jealous of Christ, jealous to the point of madness."

Brews You Can Use

This ongoing craze escaped my notice: pumpkin beer craze [http://www.kansascity.com/food/story/338950.html]. > Although the colonists, including President George Washington, made pumpkin beer, the seasonal brew essentially disappeared from brewers' repertoire. It wasn't until 1986 that Bill Owens, owner of Buffalo Bill&

Recovering

I feel a lot better today, but I'm still moving slowly and using all free time for sleep. I managed to take my children out for two of their four rounds of trick-or-treating last night. I had hoped to break the thousand mark, but fell shy. The totals:

The Flu

No Eudemon today. I have the flu or somethign terribly like it. Last year, my doctor said it's not uncommon for low grade viruses to dog a person off and on for weeks (he may have said months), with the severity of symptoms going up and down. I&

Drinking Book to Kooky Philosopher

Gotta get it: The Bad Catholic's Guide to Wine, Whiskey, And Song: A Spirited Look at Catholic Life and Lore from the Apocalypse to Zinfandel. [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/082452411X/thedailyeudem-20] Only $10.17 at Amazon. __________ Taking the kids to The Golden Compass? Check out

Monday Miscellany

I stumbled across all sorts of interesting things this weekend: A cool Wikipedia entry on fictional portrayals of psychopaths in literature [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_portrayals_of_psychopaths_in_literature#Dostoyevsky.27s_Crime_and_Punishment_and_The_Possessed] ; The Crux Project's Denyse O'Leary'