Eric Scheske

I'm still busier than a beer peddler at an AA meeting, but this story was too funny not to mention. Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_fe_st/netherlands_bear_eats_monkey]. Such barbaric conduct from the

Blogging will be light today. It's May Day, meaning, "Everything is going on at once." I could catalogue the pain: 8:00 a.m. meeting; pro bono obligations; one child with a tennis match, band practice, and paper route (guess which one I get to handle)

Fascinating little piece at the New York Daily News about a psychiatrist's attempt to measure a crime's depravity, heinousness, or atrociousness. Link [http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/417694p-352691c.html]. Thirty-nine states allow juries to mesh out harsher punishments if they determine that a crime is

Anna Jarvis, the woman who founded Mother's Day [http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvtaylor/founder.htm]. For some reason, I thought Lincoln started it. Guess not [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day].

"[A] virtuous life led with painful sacrifice and discipline will so deeply affect a personality that the effects of disordered impulses or even of a sinful past will disappear." Benedict Groeschel, writing in the letters to the editor in the current issue of Crisis.

I didn't know people collected holy cards like beer cans, but they do. The LA Times this morning ran a pretty good article about it [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs13may13,0,779518.story?coll=la-home-headlines] . The woman featured in the article has over 40,000 cards.

The need for procreation is steadily flowing throughout America. That being said, I had a fairly long conversation with a fellow attorney late last year about the need for more children. He was still citing Malthusian arguments. Bright fellow, but about a generation behind the curve: > On the May