Eric Scheske

The secularists are twittering with Jon Stewart's overwhelming victory over Bill Bennett in a "debate" regarding gay marriage. See, for example [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/07/jon_stewart_tears_op.html] ("Steward [sic] made mincemeat of out neanderthal pundit Bill Bennett"). I

Today's web crawling results: *My charitable effort of the week: Bishop John Steinbock ministered for 21 years on Skid Row and East Los Angeles. He wrote a book of anecdotes from Skid Row ( Ministry of Presence). Proceeds from the sale of the book will be given to Catholic

They caught the bikini strangler and released his details. You'd expect more from a rehabbed sex offender with tattoos on his neck. (Oh wait. They didn't say he was a "rehabbed" offender. But he must've been, right, or he wouldn't

Jeffrey Tucker at Lew Rockwell argues that the Internet and email are increasing children's literacy [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker69.html]. He might be write right. He mentions a thing called "Pooh Blogs [http://poohblogs.21publish.com/]," which, based on a quick scan, appear to

Historians agree that declining population was a major cause of Rome's fall. When I did brief research regarding the cause of the declining population, two mainline sources blamed it on plagues (see this post [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4465/], third paragraph) and don't mention contraception and abortion,

A Romanian man has handed over his wife to a creditor as payment for his debts [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1868389.html]. The story says that the woman now lives with the creditor and enjoys it. I'm guessing the woman went voluntarily or, if not,

I haven't heard of anything bad happening, and the infamous date has already passed in parts of the world. I made it back from Lansing, and my children are okay. If you've been killed or something, let me know. One devilish problem, though: my computer is

> Officials in one Sydney district have decided to pipe [Barry Manilow] music over loudspeakers in an attempt to rid streets and car parks of hooligans whose anti-social cars and loud music annoy residents and drive customers from businesses. > Following a successful experiment where Bing Crosby music was

It's 6-6-6, and I didn't wake up dead. I have to drive to Lansing to give a speech to the Lansing Catholic Lawyers Guild, so maybe I shouldn't be cocky. For that matter, my computer is malfunctioniing terribly (no email, no access

Scanning the web for worthwhile post. Here are today's favorites: Anti-ennui front: Dave Wilson bowled for 102 hours, one minute and 25 seconds. He bowled 480 games over more than four days [http://wfmynews2.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=64337]. Thanks for glorifying inner-city gangs: