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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Taking It With You and Not Leaving

I don't want to die and I don't want to be poor [http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB113780314900652582-3NZCCoZBW7UHDmouEOrkzkalkfY_20060129.html] : > Mr. Pizer has made arrangements to have his body frozen in liquid nitrogen as soon as possible after he dies. In this

Odd Consumer News

Blanket with sleeves [http://www.theslanket.com/].

America's Celebrity Obsession, Episode 2,310,554

What's next? Auctioning celebrity urine? > [William] Shatner, famed for playing Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series, sold his kidney stone to online casino GoldenPalace.Com for $US25,000 ($33,000). > The money will be donated

Ratzinger Stopped JPII?

I finally got through Paul Elie's long essay, "The Year of Two Popes" in The Atlantic Monthly (link to story [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200601/ratzinger], previous posts about same: 1 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3685/], 2 [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3694/]). For the most part, the

Sports Blogs

I've been meaning to mention: If you want a good sports blog, check out Oddjack [http://www.oddjack.com/] and Deadspin [http://www.deadspin.com/]. I visit the latter a couple of times a week, the former only a couple of times a month. Still, both are good.

Movies and Health

> Researchers from the University of Maryland have concluded that watching a comedy can increase blood flow as much as aerobic exercise or regularly taking heart medication. > On the flipside, the mental anguish caused by watching a drama significantly decreases blood flow. Link [http://www.news.com.au/story/

American Idol Anti-Gay?

Funny stuff: > Bosses at America's leading gay rights group are demanding a summit meeting with the producers of TV talent show American Idol after claiming the programme is "increasingly homophobic". > Officials at the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) were appalled by homophobic

The 99

> Young Arabs will soon be poring over a new group - and new genre - of superheroes like Jabbar, Mumita and Ramzi Razem, all aimed specifically at young Muslim readers and focusing on Muslim virtues. > Mr. Mutawa's Teshkeel Media, based in Kuwait, says that in September it will

No Shame

> Twenty-four hours after Osama bin Laden told the world that the American people should read the work of a little-known Washington historian, William Blum was still adjusting. > Blum, who at 72 is accustomed to laboring in relative left-wing obscurity, checked his emotions and pronounced himself

Something for Sunday Morning

> By an undivided and absolute abandonment of yourself and everything, shedding all and freed from all, you will be uplifted to the ray of the divine shadow which is above everything that is. Pseudo-Dionysius