Patience
My blogging software made some fairly radical changes to its structure, and I'm
still learning the ropes. Please be patient with screwy timestamps and other
problems for a day or two, until I figure everything out. Thanks.
Eric Scheske
Dumb People Getting Smarter
Maybe that's why they're still playing videogames at age 30 instead of holding
down a job:
> Before you assume gadgets and video games fry the minds of the future, consider
this: Canadian researchers are finding evidence that the high-speed,
multitasking of the young and
Real Catholic Music
After posting the last piece about gospel music, I found this on the same site:
> The Catholic mass which Beethoven called the Missa Solemnis is rarely performed.
It's eclipsed by the better-known Ninth Symphony. But taken together, the two
works shed light on the composer'
Gospel Collection
> Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to
gospel and blues. They met 40 years ago at Atlantic Records, where Friedlander
was photographing many of the artists Dorn produced.
> Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the
Old Travels
When I first started daily blogging in February 2005, I accumulated a bunch of
blog sites that seemed like a good source of fodder. As time went on, I
abandoned those sites in favor of others. I've scarcely visited those sites in
the past six months. For kicks
Where Were the Rocks and Fires?
Back in July 2001 (pre 9/11), South Park portrayed Muhammad in its cartoon
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends]. Why no hubbub back then?
South Park was surely much more widely broadcast that those Danish cartoons.
What's going on? Were Muslims in the Middle East
Only Boys Left Behind
Boys are dumb, or the feminist "equalization" measures have beaten the tar out
of them, causing them to eschew college. Just another article
[http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/11/BAGB1H6IFN11.DTL]
documenting what everyone knows and efforts in California to get
High Times in Amsterdam
They're not too stoned to steal signs:
> Amsterdam's new street signs banning cannabis smoking in parts of the city have
sparked global interest.
> The sign shows a red circle around a fat cannabis joint in a cloud of smoke
sparked by white marijuana leaves.
Violent Crime Rises?
From this morning's NYT:
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/national/12homicide.html?ei=5090&en=cdb21ac7991f0c1b&ex=1297400400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all]
> While violent crime has been at historic lows nationwide and in cities like New
York, Miami
Something for Sunday Morning
> Freedom from anger is a triumph over one's nature. It is the ability to be
impervious to insults and comes by hard work and the sweat of one's brow. . .
The first step toward freedom from anger is to keep the lips silent when the
heart