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Eric Scheske

Wireless Security System

Received from a friend: > How to install a wireless security system: > Go to a second-hand store and buy a pair of men's used work boots, a really big pair. Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine.

Mayan Mel

Mel Gibson is making a movie about the Mayans that feature human sacrifices [http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1169484,00.html]. Knowing Mad Mel, it's going to be a pretty colorful film. I like this part of an article I read about the movie:

Moving a Little Slow

I'm moving a little slow this morning. A friend is moving to South Carolina, and a group of us gathered at the drinking club to see him off. I stayed until after 11:00, which is about two hours after my normal bedtime, then went home and engaged

It's Pat

> Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, criticized by some evangelicals for comments about Venezuela's president and Israel's prime minister, lost a bid for re-election to the National Religious Broadcasters' board of directors. Link [http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060302144009990003]. I actually

What James Schall Plans to Read During Lent

One of my favorites comments on one of my favorites: > For Lent, I will read Hilaire Belloc's Places. Belloc is the best essayist in our language. Here are essays on places from North to the South of Europe, to the Mideast, to North Africa. The memory of

Trans(con)fusion

> A Knoxville firefighter claims she's being discriminated against because she used to be a man. > Fire Capt. Jamie Faucon has filed a grievance against Knoxville Fire Chief Carlos Perez and her supervisor, Mark Foulkes. > She accuses them of depriving her of a take-home car,

Odd Consumer News

You have $4,000 and the toilet is too good for it? Go here and purchase Super Bowl XL, Opus [http://www.krakenopus.com/NFLhome_flash.aspx]. It's 20" x 20", weighs 90 pounds, and appears to contain a higher percentage of fluff than your pillow.

Married "Bliss"

The life of married bloggers. Here, it's Old Oligarch and Zorak, and Zorak recounts the conversation [http://e-pression.blogspot.com/]: > O.O.: "There's Tina Turner! She doesn't look that good. She looks great now, but that's just because she&

Baptists and Catholics Together

For Ash Wednesday services. I like to offer commentary, but this link comments sufficiently [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2006/03/ash_wednesday_e.html].

The Importance of Biography

Inkwell has a great post this morning [http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp]: > New York Times columnist David Brooks has made a list of things a student can do to get a good education, even if she is forced to attend an inadequate school such as Harvard. >