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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Charming II

What were the cliche-ists saying last week? Disaster brings out the best and worst in people? > You know a city has legs when three or four dozen of them are parading down Bourbon Street – some clad in tutus and grass skirts – six days after the most damaging hurricane

Charming

In the tradition of Madalyn Murray O'Hair [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1399/]: > The American Atheists organization says President Bush should stop urging prayer for Hurricane Katrina victims because it violates the Constitution. > Ellen Johnson, president of the group said Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Bush "should

The N.O. RCC

> No religious institution faced as daunting a challenge as the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Most of its parishioners have scattered, and half of its 300 priests are unaccounted for. But Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans, the spiritual leader of 500,000 people in one of the most

Corroborating My Previous Post

Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine approaches the problem I mention in my last post, but he's trying to come up with a partial answer. I think his proposal is quixotic and I'm guessing he doesn't want to say what I said in my last post,

I Can't Blame Him

The Texas governor has said that the state will stop taking refugees. He wants the rest of the states to pitch in. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050905/ap_on_re_us/katrina_texas_airlift]. Excerpt: > Texas has been taking in refugees since Wednesday. By Saturday, Perry

I Hope This Was Taken Out of Context

Barbara Bush, interviewed while touring Houston: > In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost everyone I've talked to says we're going to move to Houston." > Then she added:

1906 Announcement

Pretty neat sign from San Fran earthquake. I'm not sure it's real, but appears to be: Link [http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2005/09/how_american_ma.html].

Foolish Me . . .

. . . I thought this might be a slow newsday: This Week: The King's Cup Elephant Polo Tournament. September 5 - 11, 2005 Hua Hin, Thailand. Link [http://www.thaielepolo.com/].

Yikes

For an extra $10, you can be somebody's boy. Twenty dollars will get you an S&M prison guard beating: > A Malaysian prison is offering adventurous travellers the chance to experience the joys of prison life - right down to the food and lack of toilets. >

Digital Essay: Fantasy Fretting

Well, it's early September and that means one thing: Football purists complaining about Fantasy Football [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_football_%28American%29]. Dave Kindred at The Sporting News came out early with a column on August 1st [http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=11427]