Eric Scheske

Today's one of my favorite commemorations: St. Benedict (the First, of Nursia). Why is Benedict important? Lots of reasons, most of which are summed up in this excerpt from an essay I wrote earlier: > When, after 312 and Constantine's conversion, society became comfortable for Christians

"I'd like two bags of organic cucumbers, a bottle of this lovely blush, some tofu, an all-liver pacifier for little Winchester here, and that skank in the corner for my husband." Residents in an up-and-coming Manhattan neighborhood don't like the return of the hookers.

Yeah, I know it's the anti-beer time of the week, but this story made it to the Yahoo!'s front page. If I wait until Friday, it'll be more stale than a four-day keg: > Organic ales, lagers and pilsners are increasingly squeezing their way

My National Catholic Register column on youth blogs was well received. I'm now thinking about swinging the calendar to the other side and featuring blogs by older people. I'm looking for recommendations. How old must a blogger be to qualify? I'm not going to

I find cell phones annoying, but the different rings have never bothered me. Then again, none of my co-workers use them: > According to a survey by Randstad USA, a staffing and work-force management company, 30 percent of employees say the ringing of their co-workers' cell phones is their

A blog of world history [http://world-history-blog.blogspot.com/]. It looks pretty good. I ran a few searches ("Catholic," "Jesus," and a few secular terms) to see if any distasteful biases creeped out. They didn't. It looks like a pretty mainstream work of love.

The ways parents can track their children [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/09/BIGMOTHER.TMP]. Excerpt: > Car: Devices can record distance, speed and driving behavior, such as hard braking and sharp turning. Some pinpoint a car's location using Global Positioning System

Eugenics is the great uncle of the social engineering that dominated--and wrecked much of--the twentieth century and continues to dog us today. Social engineering, of course, is nearly synonymous with "Socialism" and "liberalism," but it takes awhile to trace out the intellectual path for people who

> Police are investigating allegations that two six-year-old boys sexually assaulted two five-year-old girls at a primary school. Telegraph Link [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/07/usex.xml]. Kids don't see a serial murderer TV show then go out and become