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Eric Scheske

1984?

A remote Alaskan village has installed 80 surveillance cameras on its street. People are a little freaked out [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-secure28mar28,0,3284078.story?coll=la-home-headlines] : > "You better smile. You're on camera," says Roberts, 64, a

Serving up the F Word

> Are we living in an Age of Profanity [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060329/D8GKU61G0.html]? > Nearly three-quarters of Americans questioned last week - 74 percent - said they encounter profanity in public frequently or occasionally, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. Two-thirds said they think people

Helping Terrorists Feel Good About Themselves

Of course, if we're aggressive, there'll be no one left to enjoy the environment: > A new type of explosive may make blowing things up a little more environmentally friendly, according to a new study. > US researchers say they have developed "green" chemicals

Bibliomaniacs

The Washington Post ran a piece recently that speaks to me [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200557.html?nav%3Dmost_emailed&sub=AR] : > Books, it turns out, inflame a particular kind of passion. They inform, they amuse, they provoke. They keep us

Teaching Children About Work

I thought I had read every children's story on the planet, but I missed this one: > One of my favorite books when I was a child was Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day. It is a collection of short stories about everyday life

Lookin' for Pain

ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is looking for pain: cancer sufferers, hate crime victims, families with terminal children. The uglier the better. Here's the disturbing summary [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327062extreme1.html]. The TV show finds a suffering family and then re-makes their house

Give Adults the Money

The clever and brilliant (the two don't always go together) Charles Murray throws down a paradoxical challenge to America: use its flood of money to end the welfare state by giving money to Americans. His new book (In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State) comes

Didn't Appear on a Pork Chop

Hey, I thought Catholics had a trademark on this! > Muslim worshippers are flocking to see a pair of fish in the British city of Liverpool which appear to bear the words "Allah" and "Mohammed", their owner said [http://uk.news.yahoo.com/27032006/323/muslim-

Why You Should Attend Parochial Schools

Episode 1,332,901: > A tumbling coach who worked with cheerleaders at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Breese has been banned from the campus because principal Dennis Litteken learned the 22-year-old gymnast had starred in gay porn videos [http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=

A Wal'ed In Life

I wrote a very short story a few years ago that kind of anticipated the student who lived at Wal-Mart [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4302/]. It appeared in Gilbert Magazine. I have created a temporary "Stories" page in the left column, if you care to check it out.