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Eric Scheske

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

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'

Something for Sunday Morning

"Each person has a specific divine vocation. Every life that is lived without reference to the divine plan is wasted." Francis Fernandez

Administrative Saturday Morning

I finally got a chance to clean up my link list on the right. Dead links, blogs that haven't added fresh content in over six weeks, links not accessible without passwords, blogs that were recently updated to say "This blog is now closed." They're

The man who averted a nuclear holocaust

I guess this story came out last month [http://maltastar.com/pages/msfullart.asp?an=15214]. I missed it. One of the most amazing (and scary) things I've ever read. Via [http://dprice.blogspot.com/2007/10/commit-this-name-to-memory-stanislav.html].

Friday and Brews

My plans yesterday: Greektown Casino in Detroit with my brother, crash in Greektown, get up at 6:00 a.m. and be in Kalamazoo by 9:00 a.m. Friday. My day yesterday: Four Winds Casino [http://www.fourwindscasino.com/] in New Buffalo with my Dad, drinking club for a

Horror Article

I don't have much today. Long story short, I had an excellent day and evening planned today, but it fell through. I also didn't feel good yesterday and was exhausted at the end of the day. The result, I felt existentially lousy (some might call it

The Wednesday Eudemon

I missed this scary story last month: An 82-year-old Argentine woman who attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has died as a result of heart problems. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7056672.stm] The article doesn't

Tuesday Trifles

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as long as it's not beholden in Philadelphia: Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_

Monday Miscellany

Don't live here: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Shanghai and Tianjin in China; Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt; Mumbai and Kolkata in India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Tokyo and Osaka-Kobe in Japan; Lagos, Nigeria; Karachi, Pakistan; Bangkok, Thailand, and New York and Los Angeles. [http: