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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Hillbilly Thomist

I used to subscribe to Mars Hill Audio magazine. I always enjoyed it, but let my subscription lapse when my commute shrunk to four minutes (15 minutes by foot). I might have to order this, though: > In this MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation, Ken Myers talks with Susan Srigley about

Growing Up Quickly, the Wrong Way

> According to [a] criminal complaint filed in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court, Craig Everett and Malik Wakji, both 18, were hanging out in Fantasy World's VIP room with [strippers] Orchid and Carmela when the music stopped and their bill came due. And their damage for sitting through

Outsourcing

Stephen Bainbridge talks about outsourcing disaster relief. His arguments are nothing new, but they are accurate. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/090805C.html]. Excerpt: > In the public sector, employee objectives tend to be defined around vague concepts of social welfare maximization that lack determinate metrics. In addition, because government

A Needed Corrective

I earlier wrote a post, asking "What the heck is going on?" in New Orleans. Everyone in the press pointed fingers at FEMA. Now, it appears the real story is coming out: it was a local failure, at least in large part. WSJ Link [http://www.opinionjournal.com/

What Philosophy? "Ginger or Mary Ann?"

> I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications. Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of Gilligan's Island. I watched more Gilligan's Island than I can admit in polite company. I don't recall

More Title Issues

National Catholic Reporter has run a piece [http://www.ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005c/090905/090905a.php] on the Church ownership issue: Who owns the real estate? It's a real legal mess, but my earlier observations (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2168/]) appear to be borne out: The

Don't Dis' the Dead

> An inebriated Belgian woman died in a freak accident when she ended up beneath a heavy grave stone at a cemetery, local news agency Belga said on Wednesday. > The 33-year-old was on her way home from a bar in the Belgian town of Pulle in the

Respecting B16?

Good for Bavaria: Solid beer drinking, without the debauchery: > The Munich Beer Festival has banned alcopops and pop music to stop the event turning into a 'drunken orgy'. > Scenes of drunken girls dancing semi naked on the backs of male party goers or on tables were

The Bizarro Hagiographer

Books & Culture reviews James J. O'Donnell's new book, Augustine: A New Biography, and finds it wanting, to say the least. Link [http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2005/005/6.14.html]. Excerpts: > A reader of this book will be left wondering how Augustine could

Historical Miniature

The Bishop and the Politico, 1960s-style: > “Do you know what the Negro is?” Leander H. Perez once asked in 1965. “Animals right out [of] the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.” As a state judge and political boss of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, Perez