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Eric Scheske

PSA

Blogging will be light. I'm heading to Detroit tomorrow to see the league-leading [http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/standings/index.jsp] Tigers. I'm taking my three oldest boys. I loved baseball while growing up. I spent hours poring over the Baseball Encyclopedia, memorizing

The Radical Academy

Wow, this is possibly the best web find of the year: The Radical Academy [http://radicalacademy.com/homepage.htm]. It's inspired by Mortimer Adler, the philosopher-turned-Catholic. There's lots of good stuff there, like this short essay about St. Bonaventura [http://radicalacademy.com/adiphiloessay13.htm]

Slowhand

Eric Clapton, considered one of rock-n-roll's gentlemen, isn't as demure as he wants people to think [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=395799&in_page_id=1773] . His ex-wife is penning her autobiography, and

The Weekend Eudemon

Saturday morning. Hangover gone already. I get hangovers easily, so anything that dissipates in less than two hours indicates fewer than six beers, which is consistent with last night. I had dinner with Marie and three other couples (after first stopping at the drinking club with one of the husbands

Brews You Can Use III

In time for the Lebano-Israeli War: Taybeh Beer [http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=14333]. It's the hottest drink in the West Bank. And it's kosher.

Brews You Can Use II

Beerfest [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809267350/details]. New movie, coming August 25, 2006 (a Friday; Warner Bros. must know that TDE features brews news on Friday): > When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest, they stumble upon

Brews You Can Use

Nothing beats a cold beer, and few things are worse than a cold beer gone warm. The latter might not ever happen again: > Beer bottles that use solar power to keep their precious contents cool in the height of summer could be a welcome fringe benefit of thin-film

Rainbow Lightning

I don't reproduce many pictures here, but this one is pretty wild: More [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=395512&in_page_id=1770] , along with the story of this unusual combination.

Fatuous America

Top 30 Game Show Hosts [http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2006/hosts/index.html]. Yeah, it's stupid, but there are a lot of childhood memories in this link. Bonus coverage: 15 Comeback Albums [http://www.avclub.com/content/node/50444].

The Spider Eudemon

Get Religion has two great posts today: Sin and Shame in Amish Country [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1745]. (Hey, I live in Amish country! I guess I better be careful where I walk.) Modernity's Complexity and Politics [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1746]. Excerpt: > We are