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Eric Scheske

Raising Daughters

Doug Giles has a good series going: Raising Girls that Pimps and Thugs Will Hate. [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles]. Good stuff. It's revolves around a list of ten suggestions. Excerpt from first column [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DougGiles/2006/09/30/raising_girls_that_pimps_

Dreher

Strange days indeed. Two days ago, Rod Dreher wrote a lengthy piece about his conversion to Orthodoxy. When I checked the post yesterday, he had received over 250 comments in his com box. I didn't read them (I read the first five, then stopped). He said some of

The Weekend Eudemon

I'm moving mighty slow this morning. I was up late (1:30). I doubt there'll be any blogging today. As a token of appreciation for your understanding, I offer this anecdote: The following classified ran in the nineteenth century: > Farmer, aged 41, desires to correspond

Brews You Can Use IV: Poetry Edition

A reader sends this piece from the 1500s [http://www.bartleby.com/40/35.html] along: Back and side go bare, go bare, Both hand and foot go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough Whether it be new or old. But if 1 that I may have

Brews You Can Use III

Tom Marioni: Beer, Art, and Philosophy ”“ The Exhibition: August 18 ”“ October 29, 2006 [http://www.contemporaryartscenter.org/]. The link contains one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen.

Brews You Can Use II

Finally, some modern art I can appreciate [http://cinweekly.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/a1/20061004/ENT07/610040302/]. Excerpt: > The interactive happy hour, "The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art," takes place every Wednesday this month. > Marioni created "

Brews You Can Use

It's wine month in the Midwest. This is a great page of Midwestern wine information [http://www.wineryadventures.com/].

Punctuation Moment

In high school, I was always taught: "Put two spaces after a period." When I started freelancing, editors told me to stop doing it. I never knew what to think. This month's Atlantic explains what happened [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200611/word-court] in a

Conservatives for the Evironment.

A friend sends this along: Why Conservation is Conservative. Quotes by famous conservatives [http://www.rep.org/ConservativeQuotes.html]. Pretty neat.

Gay Crime

This isn't exactly the type of crime that disturbs the mental equilibrium of society [http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/am-bias1012,0,7527656,print.story?coll=ny-nycnews-headlines] : > Four young men were arrested for luring a gay man to a remote location with an