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Eric Scheske

Rand Cult

In response to Sunday's post about cults [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2940/], a reader sent along this link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html] to a lengthy essay about the Ayn Rand cult. It's written by the foremost libertarian thinker of the 20th century, Murray Rothbard.

Toilet Paper Controversy

The New York Post cracks me up. This is a humorous story, but the choice of verbs in the first and third paragraphs is classic NYP: > A prop company has been plunged into a legal drama over a $137,139 roll of toilet paper. > In papers filed in

No Wait at KFC

> Nearly half of all Americans mistakenly believe they can be stricken with the deadly bird flu by eating chicken, a new poll says [http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/57080.htm].

Lots of Chaucer

Lots of medieval stuff. Pretty cool: > Although Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pilgrims are fictional characters, the pilgrimage to the Shrine of Thomas Ã¡ Becket was an actual experience for many Medieval folk. This article explores the lives of Chaucer's pilgrims had they been truly alive and

Atheists in Foxholes

> Thousands of veterans, including those from "the Greatest Generation" who served in World War II, are expected in Washington, DC next week for the November 11 " Atheists in Foxholes [http://www.atheistfoxholes.org/]" Parade and Rally on the national mall. > The event is designed

One for Two

Texas banned same-sex marriage and Maine turned down efforts to repeal homosexual civil rights legislation [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/09/ap/politics/mainD8DOQQG04.shtml]. I'd say the Texas victory is bigger than the Maine defeat, since Texas dealt with marriage, not general civil rights.

Muslim Frog Wars

Tony Blankley pegs much of the frog problem [http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051108-102827-5782r.htm]: > As Paul Belien, writing from Brussels this weekend, observed: "It is not anger that is driving the insurgents to take it out on the secularized welfare states of Old Europe.

There is No Possible Domestic Policy

WaPo and others continue to think there's a way to placate the rioters [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/AR2005110801109.html] : > But the insoluble violence in urban France should inspire more than just schadenfreude in this country. Although there isn't

Bible Gets You Three

> Religious persecution in China has reached the point that distributing Bibles is earning a three-year prison sentence [http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051109-122418-9246r.htm]. I like this ironic twice: > Friends of Falun Gong, a religious movement espousing meditative practices, say that more than 100,000

Seeking the Invisible

Interesting essay at NYT [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/08/science/08essay.html] about man's innate tendency to look for invisible verities. The writer says it's common to religious types and scientific types. His concluding paragraphs: > Religious belief that the universe is the handiwork