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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Barrying Crime

> 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 Here

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

Spider Eudemon

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:

PSA: Claw Machines

I like to think this blog is parent-friendly. I also think those claw machines are anti-parent. So I gladly offer this link: How to Win Something from a Claw Machine [http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/06/01/how-to-win-something-from-a-claw-machine] . I haven&

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,

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

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

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.uk/

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"