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Eric Scheske

More Foley

Good thoughts from a message board: > Right after this breaks, Foley says he was molested by a clergyman and has a drinking problem. What's he trying to say? He's dysfunctional somehow? He's functional enough to get elected, which takes a high amount of

Brews You Can Use. Thursday Edition

Don't worry. I'm not going to make this blog "The Daily Brews You Can Use," but this story is already two days old, so I didn't want to hold it back until tomorrow: > Milwaukee's taverns and nightclubs could be

This Week's Column

Mafia Discourse [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=34618]: My column this week at Catholic Exchange.

Foley

Well, I read the Foley email/instamessage exchange with the underage page. I've taken four showers since and still don't feel clean, but I knew the risk going in. What's there to say that hasn't been said? Nothing, except maybe this: The

A Great Week

This might be the best week of the year for saints: October 1 (or 3): St Therese [http://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm] October 2: All Angels [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm] October 4: St. Francis [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50] October

Brews You Can Use: Midweek Edition

Something this grievous couldn't wait for Friday's Brews You Can Use [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/03/up_in_smoke_4_of_ame.html]: > About 4 percent of all hops in the USA went up in flames [on Tuesday]. Most of the country'

Foley

Today's Wall Street Journal raises points related to the ones I raised earlier today [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033]: > But in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no

Russian Warning

> The Russian government is warning that people who give or take bribes will "burn in the flames of hell." > The drastic warning comes in a mass leafleting scheme aimed at rooting out widespread corruption in society. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2021110.html?

Page Scandal

I don't blog much about politics, but I'm interested in the page scandal [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061003/ap_on_el_ge/foley_fallout;_ylt=AshUKVo__zDe9EqOluf28iyyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--] because I'm curious to see how the press handles it. Let's

Light Posting

Sorry about the light posting. It's been a manic Monday. Until I can post something better: An aphorism every teenage girl needs to hear, memorize, and understand: > Love in young men, for the most part, is not love but simply sexual desire and its accomplishment is its