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Eric Scheske

Dressing Up with Gadgetry

Just a quick heads up to men: If you're accessorizing with more than shoes and a watch, you're a metrosexual or worse. I don't care if something makes your phone clip look cool. Leave the self-styling efforts to GQ-types and pimps: >

Dangerous Work

Tracking down and arresting expected felons is highly dangerous work, but that doesn't stop this woman. Yet another mother forgets what she's there for: > By day, Sandra Scott is a stay-at-home mother of two. But after she kisses her husband and kids goodnight,

Madonna's Metaphysics

From a Drudge Report [http://www.drudgereport.com/flashms.htm]: > The former Material Girl now believes "the beast is the modern world that we live in!" > "The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion, that we think is real. We live for it,

WSJ on Miers

The Wall Street Journal ran a fairly lengthy piece about Miers [http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110007415] yesterday. If true (rather, "if believed"), the religious right will stop complaining and the secular left will gun her down.

Cultural Neutrality is Rare . . .

. . . and never long-lived. Either you condemn sin or you celebrate it. When it comes to the tragedy of divorce, we now celebrate it with parties: > Part celebration, part exorcism, the parties typically involve a signature cocktail – marriage on the rocks. > And, it wouldn't be a

Possibly the Oddest Script I've Seen

Here's a link to a site for EIDOS [http://www.eidos.org/index.htm] (Everyone is Doing Outrageous Sex). They're pro-war and pro-sex: > Since 1983, Brenda Loew and EIDOS magazine have advocated sexual freedom, freedom of choice and privacy rights for consenting adults

More Berry

New book alert: Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593760779/thedailyeudem-20]. Berry is an agrarian who gives readers across the political spectrum things to think about. You won't always agree with him, but his is an honest and considered voice.

Spero News

I've decided to try my hand at citizen journalism over at Spero News. Most of my published pieces over the years have been essays or opinion, but I thought it'd be interesting to try something different. This piece on marketing faith [http://www.speroforum.com/site/

Eating A Lot of Low-Carb Food

If this doesn't prove that our culture has an unhealthy obsession with dieting and physical appearance, nothing will: Atkins for stoners [http://www.kayalounge.net/lowcarb.html].

What We Can Look Forward To

How open! How tolerant! How loving and forgiving! > A Belgian lady was 'best woman' when her ex-husband married her hairdresser in a gay wedding. > Tania Van Rysselberghe, 41, from Ghent, said her ex, Guy Van Autreve, 40, and Danny Van der Heyden, 44, were like