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Eric Scheske

E-mail Gone Wild

> RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts. Link [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/30/financial/f131351D00.DTL] . You don't need McLuhan [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=374#

No God Spot?

From LiveScience [http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060829_god_spot.html]: > The human brain does not contain a single "God spot" responsible for mystical and religious experiences, a new study finds. > Instead, the sense of union with God or something greater than the self often described

Burning Man

Burning Man [http://www.burningman.com/] 2006 is underway. It's gotta be the quintessential bohemian event in America, and I enjoy bohemians about as much as jock itch. Still, this festival intrigues me. Here's a story at the LA Times about it [http://www.latimes.com/

Light

Light blogging today. I'm busier than a tornado in a trailer park. A few quick bites, though: *The prosecutors dropped the case against the Ramsey confessor faster than they drop drunk driving cases against Kennedys. *The new Gilbert Magazine is out. Read about it at Chesterton and Friends

William Morris

I watched Drumline with my family Saturday night. It's a movie about a glitzy marching band at an historically-black school in the South (a fictional school, "Atlanta A&T") and its battle with another black school (Morris Brown). It was decent (I'd

New Anthology

The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393327760/thedailyeudem-20]: I wasn't even aware of this anthology. Now I'm aware of it, and I don't want it. Link to unfavorable review [http:

Pope and ID

From this morning's Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1859760,00.html]: > Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will gather at his summer palace outside Rome this week for intensive discussions that could herald a fundamental shift in the Vatican'

Augustine

It's St. Augustine's feast day. By coincidence, I ran across this yesterday in Fr. James Schall's new book, The Life of the Mind [http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=ef780213-9c15-4bc6-8a82-c6e480d0aab4] : > One of the books that we must

The Mexican Eudemon

Maybe I oughtta call it the Seven-Tecate Eudemon. I mentioned on Saturday that the neighbor girl was turning 15. She's Mexican, so it's a big deal. A real big deal. We got invited two weeks ago. No other neighbors got invited. Of course, none of

Something for Sunday Morning

"Love is the only sign that distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil." St. Augustine, whose feast day is tomorrow. Article I wrote two years ago for his feast day [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=23866]