Eric Scheske

This'll be an abbreviated edition. The practice of law has been brutal this week. I'm blogging this from my law office, after getting here at 6:30 this morning. On top of the law office, I'm the dug-out coach for my boys'

Major internet problems at the office, hence the lack of posts. Hopefully things will improve shortly, but who knows. The internet gods haven't been smiling on me lately.

$4.00 heist: > Police say a Larksville man burglarized a pizza shop early Wednesday morning then fled, striking police cruisers during a high-speed chase that ended with a physical confrontation with officers. And police said it was all for two 12 packs of Milwaukee's Best Ice

Sacrilege on campus [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060608/ap_on_hi_te/colleges_ipods_8]: > In a rare instance, Apple Computer Inc.'s iconic iPod music player surpassed beer drinking as the most "in" thing among undergraduate college students, according to the latest biannual

*More common knowledge as science [http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/bpl-mis060806.php]: > The authors find that after a five-minute conversation with a stranger of the opposite gender, men were more likely to interpret ambiguous or friendly behavior as indicating sexual interest. "The findings

> The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum. The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin. Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1870958.html] (be careful, there&

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