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Eric Scheske

Strange Deaths

From The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs, p. 284: > I've read about blues singer Robert Johnson, who died after drinking strychnine-laced whiskey in a juke joint. And Marie Blanchard, an aviation pioneer who died when her hot air balloon was set ablaze by fireworks.

A Righteous Battle

> Hundreds of looters battled police all weekend at the site of a beer train wreck in violence that left one woman dead, South African police said on Monday as they kept a heavy guard on the remaining alcohol. > The train carrying 180,000 crates of beer from South

Fire Up the Tobacco Company Lawsuit!

Odd Consumer News

The Comic Rockstars Toilet Seat Museum. Link [http://www.flickr.com/photos/16756280@N00/sets/789737/].

Freedom and the Metal Detector

Prospect has run a solid piece about freedom and protecting ourselves from terrorism. Link [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6965&AuthKey=875ca4fec9c2b5177985a662ca7877e1&issue=508] . Excerpts: > Should we change our way of life to be more secure from terrorism? We already have. A

Better Late Than Never

> Three years after the clergy sex abuse crisis rocked the Roman Catholic church, a Vatican-directed evaluation of all U.S. seminaries is scheduled to begin late next month. > Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, the U.S. coordinator for the review, said 117 bishops and seminary staff will

Ramming Gay Marriage Everywhere

The article talks about how the women were horrified at the reaction, but it also admits that the women filed the lawsuit. Interesting stuff. > When two women tried to register as a married couple in Aruba last year, people on this Dutch island threw rocks at them, slashed their

Hollywood: Sexual Mosh Pit

From the mouth of someone who knows: > Eva Longoria refuses to romance fellow celebrities - because she claims everyone in Hollywood has slept with each other. . . > The 'Desperate Housewives' beauty says she is so fed up with the close-knot celebrity circles she avoids red-carpet events

Wi-Fi the Street

The next big techie thing? Neighborhood wi-fi access. It supposedly builds neighborly relations. We like it, but our approval might end when the laptop-totin' homeless population arrives to sit on the curbs: > The Fourth Street hotspot is part of a communal wireless project called Neighbornode, started

All Eyes on the Lutherans II

A follow-up to our earlier post (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1966/]): > "In an indication of the deep split over homosexuality in the church, which with five million members is the nation's largest Lutheran denomination, the vote on gay clergy members at the church's