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Eric Scheske

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]

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&