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Eric Scheske

Kneeling with the Patristics

After seeing yesterday's story in the LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kneel28may28,0,7235402.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines] about kneeling, I consulted Earthen Vessels [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898708370/thedailyeudem-20], a little book by Gabriel

Kneeling in LA

The LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kneel28may28,0,7235402.story?page=1&coll=la-home-headlines] ran a story this morning about anti-kneeling zealots in southern California. If you're unacquainted with the story, you have to read it to believe it.

More EU Aggression

In case your day is going well, check out this story at The Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/27/wpolder27.xml] about the European Union's plans to forcibly take land from a farming couple, so the EU can create more

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Something for Sunday Morning

> [P]eople praised him, and people rejected him, and people said Hosanna, and people crucified him. But Jesus held on to the truth. "Whatever happens, I am the beloved of God, and that is who I am." And that allows me to live in a world that

The Real Sex Ed

Two high schoolers were caught on cell phone video during an indiscreet classroom moment [http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17591065], and now the clip is going around the Internet. Authorities say the clip constitutes child pornography. I say Letterman is trying to call them.

Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch . . .

. . . they might mutate [http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,19264909-5001022,00.html]: > The team comprising a geneticist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer says the egg came first. > The first chicken developed differently to its avian predecessors. > Such mutations could only have occurred

Blogging Jeremiad

The new issue of The American Conservative [http://www.amconmag.com/] arrived today, via computer subscription. One of the feature articles is by former blogger Diana Moon, who writes from the perspective of a member of BA: Blogger's Anonymous. She's a self-described blogging addict, who

Memorial Day Weekend Eudemon

Ah, the first leg of the summer trifecta: Memorial Day weekend. My favorite. The July 4th weekend is often too busy, and Labor Day comes with a measure of summer's-end somberness. But Memorial Day? It screams, "Summer enjoyment." And I'm spending it blogging

Prejudice in the Womb!

> African-American children whose mothers drank light to moderate amounts of alcohol during pregnancy had lower IQ scores at age 10 than those born to abstainers, a new study has found. > It also showed that similar drinking habits in Caucasian mothers did not lead to IQ reductions in