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Eric Scheske

Drinking to Health

It's not too often you hear about Canada coming up with a good approach to a social problem, but this one doesn't sound too bad: giving whinos wine [http://theedge.bostonherald.com/healthNews/view.bg?articleid=128057]. > The Shepherds of Good Hope shelter in Ottawa

Sherwood Forest

Ten facts about Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/sense_of_place/facts/sherwood_forest.shtml].

Sunday Evening Eudemon

My apologies for the lame posting today. Sundays are rough, and this Sunday rougher than most. I attended Mass, wrote two articles, and prepared for and attended Meg's (4, turning 5) birthday party. That's combined with the regular stuff that Sundays bring: playing with the kids,

Odd Food News

I love good macaroni and cheese, and it's Sunday (a bad day for blogging, given the dearth of interesting material), so I post this: a site dedicated to macaroni and cheese recipes [http://blog.samradion.co.uk/]. Good for families with small children. Warning: The URL indicates it&

Pizza Crust

I didn't follow-up to see what caused this outburst at Hogs on Ice [http://www.hogonice.com/2006/02/math_for_crusthaters.html], but at least the writer doesn't sugarcoat it: > I hate people who don't eat pizza crust. They should all

Wannabe Cannibal

An artist who baked a life-size model of her own naked body out of bread dough will watch her audience eat it at an exhibition. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4749366.stm] I don't know much about art, so I can'

Something for Sunday Morning

> Fasting from the food and drink of this present world is, for Christians, a sign of our expectation of the feasting in the new world, the world of the resurrection, on the food and drink of everlasting life. And just as you cannot pray without actually giving time to

Saturday Evening Eudemon

Settling back with six of the seven children, watching Hidalgo. I heard good things about it. We'll see. I just got back from an outing with Alex (12). I took him to the video store to pick out the movie, then took him to Mike's Pizza,

This Day in History

1825. Â Robert Owen, a socialist, announces New Harmony utopian plan in Indiana to government dignitaries in the Hall of the US House of Representatives. The later Catholic convert, Orestes Brownson [http://orestesbrownson.com/index.php],Â knew Robert Owen and his ilk, even sending his own son to live

Psycho Path

> Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names. > Mitsubishi Motors sponsored the poll on the Web site http://www.TheCarConnection.com [http: