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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Space Exploration

Here's a picture of my family at the Huntington, Alabama space center. I enjoyed the visit. The center displays all aspects of space exploration. But one thing was missing from this humongous NASA public-relations effort: Any mention of what space exploration has benefited us. This huge complex

Scientology, Again

I ran across this [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TR/critique.html] today: > Hubbard said, "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM..., because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher

David Dross

Another item for my hectic Monday morning: David Scott left miscellaneous notes in the draft bank. He describes them as "dross," which might be true, in the sense that they're only loosely connected thoughts that were meant to go together at some point. But they'

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

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