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Eric Scheske

Pictures from the Birthplace

Here are a few photos from my trip to the birthplace [http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/]: Family (less Michael) and me standing at landmark sign: The vehicle the Presley family used to move to Memphis when Elvis was 13: Children on Elvis' porch: Children inside half of Elvis' house:

Filling a Literary Hole

He was friends with Malcolm Muggeridge, who wrote the foreward to a collection of his works [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558821198/thedailyeudem-20]. The Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1461-2032710-1461,00.html] (of London) reported earlier this year that folk in India love the British

Something for Sunday Morning

> Let us run to accompany him as he hastens toward his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all we can to prostrate ourselves before him by being humble and by trying to live

Blair RCC

Tony Blair converting to Catholicism [http://custosfidei.blogspot.com/2006/04/tony-blair-converting-to-catholicism.html] ?

Southern Ramblings

A few random thoughts that hit me while traveling through the upper South (southern Kentucky, chunks of Tennessee, northern Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia): Could Michigan or Illinois name a state park and other landmarks after the first Grand Wizard of the KKK [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest]

Doing Research

Another university study confirms common sense [http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000AADF2-843E-1435-843E83414B7F0000] . In this one, a researcher's study shows that people react to rewards and punishment in their economic decisions. Regular readers know that I'm much humored by the research-confirms-common-sense phenomenon,

In Time for Holy Week

Stations of the Cross blog [http://thecorner.typepad.com/via_crucis_2006/2006/04/via_crucis_blog.html]. Via Shea [http://markshea.blogspot.com/].

Kiosk

Note: I'm eliminating the Kiosk. It's too much of a hassle to keep up with the spam.

The Weekend Eudemon

Whatta week. Michigan to Kentucky (Mammoth Cave National Park [http://www.nps.gov/maca/]), Kentucky to Mississippi (Tupelo, the Birthplace of Elvis [http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/] and home of my eldest brother), Alabama (Huntsville and the Space Center [http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/]), Tennessee (Gatlinburg). It feels like I was

Stay Down

Yet about 2/3rds of Americans claim to be Christians and accept other core truths about Christianity [http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RESURRECTION-04-05-06]: > Most Americans don't believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die, putting them