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Eric Scheske

No Citgo at 7-Eleven

> 7-Eleven Inc. dropped Venezuela-owned Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel. [http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&feed=ap&src=

At the High-Tech Convention . . .

Helping nerds date: sexy robots [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215583,00.html]. How long until these things put a dent in the world's oldest profession?

I Wouldn't Hold that Head in Public

> A leading opera house [in Berlin] canceled a 3-year-old production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free speech. I'm shocked that the production lasted three years. Are the Arabs

St. Vincent de Paul

It's St. Vincent's [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=326] feast day. By coincidence, I was talking with my daughter Abbie last night about charity toward the poor, and I tried to explain to her the difference between the "relatively poor"

Spider Eudemon

From Welborn [http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/09/tragedy_all_aro.html]: > An enraged girlfriend who fatally shot a Palm Beach County firefighter, then turned the gun on herself might have been upset about their decision to abort their baby a few weeks earlier, a witness told detectives

Slow Tuesday

I got up this morning with 45 minutes to surf the Internet and do some blogging. And what did I find? Nothing, unless you count this: Police "are hunting a man who stood on a conveyor belt and urinated on a till at a supermarket [http://www.ananova.com/

I'm Wincing

A "provocative" movie about St. Theresa Avila [http://www.lolafilms.com/ingles/pelicula_rodaje_detalle.asp?id=393].

Monday Morning Eudemon

This is the weekend I became the techno-addict. Two things happened: 1. I got a large-screen TV hooked up downstairs. A product of my parents's hand-me-down benevolence, the picture is good but not great, and it won't accept a high definition signal. No matter. It sits

The Swedish Deal

Great commentary at Spero about the reality of Sweden's welfare state and economy [http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idcategory=34&idSub=158&idArticle=5664] . Excerpt: > A closer examination, however, reveals that the famous "Swedish Model" does not work very well. This

Something for Sunday Morning

"The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise of mortification [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10578b.htm]." St. Francis de Sales