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Eric Scheske

Digital Essay: Lights Out, Halloween

I was pulling a child's wagon. Running with it, actually, with two of my children, ages eight and six, loaded in the back. It was my exercise for the day. There were a lot of cars on the road, using the mechanical Jacobin to make more stops. I

Opus Dei

I'm no expert on Opus Dei, but this review [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0510.baumann.html] of John Allen's Opus Dei: The First Objective Look Behind the Myths and Reality of the Most Controversial Force in the Catholic Church seems like a balanced account.

Spooky Sampling of Books

WaPo also ran blurbs on six "Halloweenish" books this morning [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/27/AR2005102701774.html] . A nice read. Excerpt: > Most Americans know about the infamous Salem witch trials of 1692, but a more lethal outbreak of witch hysteria infected

Black Hole Novel

WaPo reviews a new work of fiction by Charles Burns. It sounds pretty cool, and it reminds me of the theme behind E. Michael Jones' Monsters from the Id [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890626066/thedailyeudem-20]: pop culture reflects our society's buried fears about

The Weekend Eudemon

A much abbreviated Weekend Eudemon this week. My wife and I are dealing with dueling croup [http://health.yahoo.com/ency/healthwise/hw31906] banjoes. Max (turned two on August 1) and Tess (seven months) both have it. One cries, gets the other going, the first cries more. There's

Letterman on McDonalds

> How many folks been to McDonalds lately? They're trying to improve their image. They now have big screen TV's and leather coaches”¦I'm thinking wouldn't that money have been better spent on actual beef?

VHS: RIP

John Robson writes a eulogy for the VHS. Excerpts: > The Citizen obituary said after only 28 years, VHS tapes won't be made as of 2006. In an intimation of mortality, a year ago the Daily Telegraph said Britain's largest electronics chain no longer sold VCRs,

A Sexual Predator Prot in the News

Statistics show that Protestant clergy are more likely to commit sexual sins than their Catholic counterparts, but they don't often make the news. Probably because the Protestant misconduct doesn't often involve teenage boys, but at times, the other side of the Tiber makes the news: >

Mandatory Training for Gay Sensitivity

When sin isn't condemned, it is encouraged. In this case, NYC schools have taken the position--consistent with public schools' moral agnosticism--that gay conduct isn't better or worse than heterosexual conduct. Neutral, right? Unfortunately, it appears the students aren't buying into it,

Brews You Can Use III

You get paid money for that? Frat boys will be lining up for miles. > A Japanese artist has been paid Â£5,000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam. > The performance, at an arts centre in Cardiff,