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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Meth Bust

> Federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities in North Georgia have reported a record seizure of about 341 pounds of suspected crystal methamphetamine at a residence in Gainesville, Ga. > The find breaks a previous record seizure of 187 pounds of meth made just two weeks ago in Buford,

The CNN Story

I assume everyone has heard this by now, but just in case (this story [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/08/30/060830154354.iu5zx114.html] is too good not to mention): > Her "loving" husband emerged pretty well, but her "control freak" of a sister-in-

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