Eric Scheske

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The Spider Eudemon

Crawling the web to bring you an interesting assortment: Joseph Pearce longs for England [http://www.dappledthings.org/lent06/feature.html]. (Name drop: I met Pearce once. We were both speaking at a Chesterton Conference in Minnesota. Very pleasant fellow.) Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox News Blogs writes about the

Scientology, Again

I ran across this [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TR/critique.html] today: > Hubbard said, "THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM..., because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher

Monday Morning Eudemon

Well, it's Monday morning, and I've been out of the office for seven weekdays. It's 7:50 a.m., and my phone is set to go off like I just won the Powerball [http://www.powerball.com/]. Blogging will be light, but I have

Pictures from the Birthplace

Here are a few photos from my trip to the birthplace [http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/]: Family (less Michael) and me standing at landmark sign: The vehicle the Presley family used to move to Memphis when Elvis was 13: Children on Elvis' porch: Children inside half of Elvis' house:

Filling a Literary Hole

He was friends with Malcolm Muggeridge, who wrote the foreward to a collection of his works [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558821198/thedailyeudem-20]. The Times [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1461-2032710-1461,00.html] (of London) reported earlier this year that folk in India love the British

Kiosk

Note: I'm eliminating the Kiosk. It's too much of a hassle to keep up with the spam.

The Weekend Eudemon

Whatta week. Michigan to Kentucky (Mammoth Cave National Park [http://www.nps.gov/maca/]), Kentucky to Mississippi (Tupelo, the Birthplace of Elvis [http://www.elvispresleybirthplace.com/] and home of my eldest brother), Alabama (Huntsville and the Space Center [http://www.spacecamp.com/museum/]), Tennessee (Gatlinburg). It feels like I was

I'm Back

The family and I drove from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to SW Michigan yesterday. About 10 hours of driving, and four of us had come down with stomach flu (I've spent 90 minutes cleaning the van this morning and it still doesn't smell pleasant). Things are returning to

Moses and the Mexicans among us

Ok. My dad thinks I should blog on immigration. After a week of watching the borderline racism and histrionics that passes for coverage of the issue on Fox News, I'm almost inclined to. Here's the most sensible thing I've seen on the issue, [http:

Fear factor

Nicholas Lemann's New Yorker article on Bill O'Reilly [http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060327fa_fact] is one of those articles that tries too hard to demonstrate that it's a "fair, yet critical assessment," when the only reason for writing is to