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Eric Scheske

Belloc in NYT

Hilaire Belloc made the headline of a NYT opinion piece this morning. That's noteworthy in itself. Bonus: The piece is worth reading. The Future of Journalism as Told by Hilaire Belloc in 1918 [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/opinion/18tue4.html?_r=1&oref=slogin]

The Gay Landscape

Benjamin Wittes writes in The Atlantic Monthly about the current pink battle waging in the states about gay marriage. Subscriber-only link [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200605/gay-marriage]. I disagree with Wittes' views that color his "facts" a little, but overall, he does a nice

Crime is Ugly

An entertaining, if kinda sad and questionable, blurb in The Atlantic Monthly: > Dick Tracy had it right, a new study suggests: there really is a correlation between ugliness and crime. A pair of economists examined looks and lawbreaking among adults aged eighteen to twenty-six, using a longitudinal study

The Gay Roll

Gay parents lined up to crash the Bush White House annual Easter egg hunt [http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060417/ts_alt_afp/uspoliticseaster_060417200009]. Why? Symbolic, of course: "The gay groups said their gesture was meant to make their presence felt in American society even though Bush

Planned Perversity

This month's Atlantic Monthly isn't that good, but there are a few gems in it, like this response [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200605/letters/4] by Caitlin Flanagan [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4378/] in the Letters to the Editor section. Flanagan apparently wrote a piece critical

Sirs Elton, Paul, Mick, and Tom

Malcolm Muggeridge explains the knighting of Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Tom Jones: > In England everything is forgiven to those who live a long time; with longevity even Queen Victoria became popular, and I feel quite sure that if Oscar Wilde had managed to live on into

On-Line Dating

The jury is still out on the long-term results of on-line mating, but it appears the forecast might be a little rocky [http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/mismatch_1.html]. Excerpt: > While many happily married couples say they may never have found a mate offline, there are

Something for Easter Morning

Two hard-boiled eggs, two Reese's peanut butter eggs, and Coke. Yes, it's Easter Morning. The magnitude of today's event defies blog posting, but here's a handful of quotes: "Any fool can [die]. But only a real man can [rise from

Who Needs Easter?

Plenty of people are beginning to realize that us earthlings are probably alone. Though 34% still believe in UFOs [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3962/], many people are beginning to realize that the possibiliy of extra-terrestial life and the existence of UFOs [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3071/] is about as likely as

April 15: Tax Day

There's something wrong when Tax Day is also Holy Saturday, but there's nothing we can do about it (though I think, technically, Tax Day is April 17th this year). In any event, The Patriot Post [http://patriotpost.us/] sent these quotes that help lessen the brutal