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Eric Scheske

Non-Profit Suggestion

If you're a Catholic non-profit group that sends priests to guest celebrate Masses at various parishes, in hopes that parishioners will give your organization money, don't send a 50+-year-old priest with a ponytail, unless the church is in the Bay area, Key West, Massachusetts, or

Plastic Surgery Reality

HBO is filming a documentary about disasterous plastic surgeries [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyid=2006-06-05T031650Z_01_N04213602_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELEVISION-PLASTIC.xml&src=rss&rpc=22] . It's called Plastic Disasters, and I guess it's pretty nasty: > Intercutting the

Dixie Defense

I'm not a "pro-Confederate" kind of guy, but I know enough history to know the South has been enormously maligned for the past 150 years (heck, the Abolitionists started it well before then). Consequently, I like to pass along neat pages like this when I get

Butchwoman

This was announced last week, but I missed it until today: > Fifty years after she first graced the pages of a comic book, Batwoman is to return to the world of superheroes - as a lesbian socialite [http://www.dccomics.com/news/?nw=5866]. And [http://enjoyment.independent.co.

Something for Sunday Morning

The three compulsions of the world: to be relevant, to be spectacular, and to be powerful. Henri Nouwen I'd never heard it phrased that way, but those three categories seem to capture every temptation from the world: desire for fame, fortune, good reputation, respect, excellence. Nouwen has a

Brews You Can Use, Saturday Edition

In response to my post yesterday [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4659/] about the Montreal Beer Festival, a reader sends along these two links about other beer festivals. Frankenmuth [http://www.frankenmuthfestivals.com/?page_id=2] (Frankenmuth is located in the middle of Michigan and is known as "Little Bavaria"

The Weekend Eudemon

Well, I'm back. I spent the last two days at Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort [http://www.soaringeaglecasino.com/] in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. I attended a two-day seminar on business law, gambled, drank beer, and watched the Pistons lose. Soaring Eagle is one of those Indian reservation casinos.

PSA

Blogging will be light the rest of today and tomorrow. Actually, until tomorrow evening, it will be non-existent. My wife and I are going to a resort. I have a two-day business seminar, and she's tagging along. She claims it's her first over-night trip without children

Brews You Can Use V

The worst beers in the world [http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/TheWorstBeers.asp] , rated 1 to 50. I drink two of them, but I'm happy to see Bud Lite made it (48).

Brews You Can Use IV

Looking for an on-line wine club? I hear this one [http://www.corkd.com/] is pretty good, though I haven't joined yet. It looks like it might be worth checking out.