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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Cuomo Not a Homo

I guess I was still recovering from my outing at the drinking club Tuesday night. I missed this hilarious NYC dispute: > Former Mayor Ed Koch slammed Andrew Cuomo last night, contending the attorney general hopeful misled Manhattan gay activists by denying that his father's 1977 mayoral campaign

Mozart at 250

Terry Teachout writes in honor of Mozart's 250th birthday [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12101066_1]. Excerpt: > [Mozart] was a child prodigy without formal education who wrote his first symphony at the age of nine and his last one a mere 23 years later, not

Mercy Murdering

Oops, guess we shouldn't have tried to kill her: > Haleigh Poutre, the brain-damaged girl at the center of a passionate end-of-life debate, was transferred yesterday from a pediatric intensive-care unit to a Brighton rehabilitation center, two days after the state's top

Hamas Victorious

Will the West ever learn? Muslims can't be placated. Hamas, still vowed to Israel's destruction, wins overwhelmingly [http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/26/palestinian.election/index.html], despite the forced eviction of Jews last year. Maybe we could just give them Israel, the

Listening to the Homily

A priest offers practical suggestions for listening to the homily [http://hancaquam.blogspot.com/2006/01/put-down-missalette-hearing-homily.html]. They're pretty good, though he doesn't give any advice for trying to listen while your four-year-old tries to ask a question, your

Mozart at 250 Years

Friday is the 250 anniversary of the birth of Mozart. WFMT in Chicago, in co-operation with more than 100 other stations, will broadcast a 3-hour concert live from Salzburg, Austria, Mozart's birthplace, from 11:00 AM CST until 2:00 PM, with an intermission at 1:

Homeschool Socializing

Funny stuff [http://www.newoxfordreview.org/note.jsp?print=1&did=0106-notes-socialization]: > "When my wife and I mention we are strongly considering homeschooling our children, we are without fail asked, 'But what about socialization?' Fortunately, we found a way our kids can receive

Dig a Hole to China?

> If you were to dig a hole from where you are standing all the way through the center of the Earth, where would you end up? Click here to find out [http://www.digholes.com/].

More from Deus Caritas Est

> Man is truly himself when his body and soul are intimately united; the challenge of eros can be said to be truly overcome when this unification is achieved. Should he aspire to be pure spirit and to reject the flesh as pertaining to his animal nature alone, then spirit

Big Conservatism

I spend a lot of time ruminating on the problems with conservatism today. So, apparently, does Mark Shea [http://markshea.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_markshea_archive.html#113821798106084166] , who has been reading Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400050642/thedailyeudem-20]. We&