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Eric Scheske

Boomergedden

More and more piling on the baby boomers . . . and deservedly so [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4798825.stm]. Excerpt: > Environmental degradation, social breakdown, rampant consumerism, even disease... is it any wonder that US commentator Joe Queenan (born 1950) once wrote: "If you want

Easter Rat Farm

The scholarly environmentalists have been telling us for years that human ecological aggression killed Easter Island [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island]. That might not be the case. It was rats [http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/53200?fulltext=true&print=yes] .

Arthur to Blame?

I watched Arthur [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082031/] on vacation. It came out in 1981. At the beginning, drunken Arthur introduces himself to a hooker, reaches for his hat, and can't find it. She says, “It's on the floor.” He says, “I hate it when

The Weekend Eudemon

No doubt on Friday: A brutal week at the office gave way to a decent Friday. I finished this month's column for National Catholic Register, and had a first draft of my weekly Catholic Exchange column done. It was the first weekend in eight weeks that I didn&

Brews You Can Use II

What's this country coming (going back?) to? First this [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210338,00.html], now this [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002984.php]: > The Washington State Liquor Control Board is considering new rules that would outlaw the sale of 34

Brews You Can Use

New book. Sounds pretty good and has a distributist ring to it. It's apparently about how Miller, Anheuser-Busch, et al. captured the market after WWII. Here's the blog review where I read about it [http://beerblog.genx40.com/archives/2006/august/bookreviewgreat]. Unfortunately, I can&

Beerbohm

It's Max Beerbohm's birthday today. Link [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/happy-birthday-max.html]. I don't know much about him, but Chesteron liked him and Joseph Epstein likes him. I read just recently that, when Epstein was first married and suffering the

It's All Relative?

Even CNN admits that the Aztecs deserved the wrath of Cortez: > Aztecs butchered, ate invaders. This grisly story is from today's online edition of CNN. Domestic nations have tried many tactics over the ages to repel invading armies. The Aztecs were no different and a recent find

The Best D*$@ Sports Book

> The Pontifical Council for the Laity has released a book of essays on the world of athletics, praising honest competition but warning against excesses of individualism and "body worship." > The collection of essays is entitled The Sporting World Today: A Field of Christian Commitment. In an

Where's the Fun in That?

> A stem cell breakthrough by American scientists is set to overturn ethical objections to potentially live-saving research. > They have found how to make stem cells from embryos without destroying the embryo in the process - an advance that could open the door to billions of dollars in research