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Eric Scheske

About Time

Elvis gets his due [http://kdka.com/entertainment/entertainment_story_086072935.html]! > Elvis fans already consider Graceland a national treasure. > Interior Secretary Gale Norton will arrive in Memphis on Monday for ceremonies to make the designation official. > The home of Elvis Presley, which hosts more than 600,

They Didn't Get the Memo

> A Greek court allowed association of worshippers of ancient Greek deities to be set up, Radio Svoboda informs. > At the moment Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athens, Hermes, etc. are being worshipped by 100,000 Greeks. > Until now Ministry of Culture banned them from conducting public worship at

The "Learn Something New Every Day" Department

A fellow blogger wished me a "happy Laetare Sunday" today. I didn't know what it meant, so I looked it up. Mildly interesting: > The fourth, or middle, Sunday of Lent, so called from the first words of the Introit at Mass, "Laetare Jerusalem"

Flannery Quotes

The brilliant Flannery is always a safe blog item. I found this assortment at Brainyquote [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/flannery_oconnor.html]: All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of

Disgracing Wallace's Memory

Where's William Wallace [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart] when you need him? > A ban on smoking in public places - including bars and restaurants - has come into effect in Scotland. > It is being hailed as a step forward for health but critics say it will cost

Immigration Bill

A friend sent out a mass email about the immigration bill. It came yesterday. At first, I thought it was a response to my post yesterday [https://thedailyeudemon.com/4283/], but it wasn't. It was just a coincidence. She raises a good point: > Dear friends, please pay

Something for Sunday Morning

> [Prayer's] only art is to call back the souls of the dead from the very journey into death, to give strength to the weak, to heal the sick, to exorcise the possessed, to open prison cells, to free the innocent from their chains. Prayer cleanses from sin,

If You Name It, They Will Come

I found this in yesterday's WSJ (James Taranto's Best of the Web [http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/]). It's not a joke: > [T]here's a small but growing effort under way to get a Vermont mountain named after the controversial movie, Brokeback

Ms. Memory

I was blessed with an excellent memory, though stress has somewhat taken a toll on it. I found this article [http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pub&dt=060324&cat=scitech&st=scitechdyehard_woman_memory_060320&src=abc] highly interesting. My memory was nowhere

Farce of the Penguins

> Actor Samuel L. Jackson has signed on to narrate an upcoming spoof of the Oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins" with an all-star supporting voice cast, independent studio ThinkFilm said on Friday. > "Farce of the Penguins," mixing archival wildlife footage with an