Monday Morning Eudemon
Well, it's Monday morning, and I've been out of the office for seven weekdays.
It's 7:50 a.m., and my phone is set to go off like I just won the Powerball
[http://www.powerball.com/]. Blogging will be light, but I have
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
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
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