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Eric Scheske

The Wednesday Eudemon

All sorts of linkable material at Drudge right now: School plans to offer pill to middle school girls, and state law allows the girls to get it without parental consen [http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=140910&ac=PHnws] t (the confluence of demographics led to this result:

Multitasking, Blog Interviews, and One Costly Book

Multitasking hurts your memory, creates stress, and costs time. That, according to Walter Kirn in the current issue of The Atlantic. The piece is clever, but far too jumpy (I think he was using his prose style to analogize to multitasking), and he didn't present enough facts. Still,

Monday Miscellany

My favorite Belloc book: The Four Men. It's now available here [http://www.archive.org/details/fourmenfarrago00belliala]. Go to The Blue Boar to figure out how to find it [http://theblueboar.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-bellocs-four-men.html]. Intelligent observation from one of the commentators at

Something for Sunday Morning

"The Bible is a stream wherein the elephant may swim and the lamb may wade." St. Gregory the Great

Oxford American

I realize I'm not suppose to be blogging on Saturdays, but just one quick thing: If you want good writing, subscribe to Oxford American [http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/]. I've been enjoying it for a little over a year. The newest issue came three days ago, and

Brews You Can Use

My monthly column is up at The Register and it's about beer: What's Brewing in the Blogosphere? [http://ncregister.com/site/article/6289/] Subscription required. Excerpt: > Most every well-read Christian has heard of the Inklings, the literary group that counted J.R.R. Tolkien

Thursday Miscellany

Abby's Queer Eye Abby has come out strongly in favor of the gay movement [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_re_us/dear_abby_gay_marriage]. Nothing post-worthy, since I've long considered her too vapid to swim against the political current and

Drinking Club and Schall

The temperature was mild and skies sunny. I couldn't resist the temptation to hit the drinking club. Leaving the office at 3:30, I took a folder of work and sat on the patio with a tall Oberon. I only worked for about 20 minutes, but I drank

The Slow Eudemon and Hitler

I don't know if my wits are turned off ("Hey, Scheske, they're always off!") or if the stories on Internet are simply lame. Virtually nothing struck me as post-worthy (and it's not like I set the highest standards or anything). There

Survival

I survived the weekend. It was rough. The universe's forces (m)aligned to make three days without my wife difficult: the temperature burst to 88 degrees, weekend events were delayed or started late (every parent with small children knows how a 20-minute delay is the equivalent of