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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

No Protection for Kooks

> British historian David Irving, known for his controversial views on World War Two, must stay in custody in Vienna while he is charged with denying the Holocaust, a court ruled on Friday [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051125/wl_canada_nm/canada_irving_austria_col_1].

Those Crazy Neo-Pagans!

> Two 17-year-old secondary school students from Plzen brutally attacked their 18- year-old classmate with a knife and filmed it with a video camera in what investigators believe might have been an occult Viking ritual, the daily Pravo reported yesterday. Link [http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12915/Youths-

Rabbi Shortage

The New York Times runs an article this morning about a travelling female rabbi [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/26/national/26religion.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133011103-6eoKJvEisA0VzlZ11UayCg] . She serves 28 temples in 12 states throughout the south. Why? Because there's a rabbi shortage, silly: >

More Walk the Line Praise

The sane folk at Southern Appeal [http://southernappeal.blogspot.com/2005/11/holiday-movie-mini-review-i-saw-walk.html] plug Walk the Line, causing me to wail and gnash my teeth again at my rural outpost and its four isolated theater screens: > I saw Walk the Line tonight

The Weekend Eudemon

The waters I wade for this blog! Right now, I'm sitting in a Starbucks, blogging with my new T-mobile account. Six bucks an hour, plus one of the blonde counter coffee experts is going to ask me to order something soon. I'm not a coffee

Morbid but Funny

A list of things not to buy a two-year-old [http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/3HL4G7VMNOLXS/002-1193240-6943254?%5Fencoding=UTF8] .

PSA

Blogging could be light the next couple of days. I'll be spending time with family. There will, however, be at least a few posts every day.

Kill Santa?

From a German spokesman for the efforts to rid us of Santa Claus [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1622369.html]: > "St. Nicholas is not Father Christmas. The values associated with the former are selflessness, charity, solidarity, giving and sharing. He is perfect for getting across the

Brews You Can Use

Ah, I have fine company: > There's no reason but snob appeal that wine shouldn't come in a box . . . . [http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/11/boxed_wine.html] Professor Stephen Bainbridge His site points readers to a new container for boxed wine [http://money.cnn.com/

11:00 p.m.

"Gratitude: The virtue by which a person acknowledges, interiorly and exteriorly, gifts received and seeks to make at least some return for the gift conferred." Fr. John Hardon