Eric Scheske

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Brews You Can Use III

Those leftists in Austin might be onto something [http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=154646]. > Some Austin residents are working to create the state's first co-op beer pub in the European sense of the word. The Black Star Pub is the brainchild of

Brews You Can Use II

Actually, this is Brews You Can Use, If You Want to Commit Suicide Rather Than Listen for Five More Seconds. 99 Bottles of Beer site [http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/]. > This Website holds a collection of the Song 99 Bottles of Beer programmed in different programming languages. Actually the song

Odd Consumer News

Self-cleaning bathrooms are coming [http://www.bestsyndication.com/Articles/2006/Nicole-WILSON/WhatsNew/02/020706-nano_technology_self_clean_bathroom.htm] . The technology is almost here. Pretty soon I'll no longer suffer from self-inflicted impacted bowels when visiting county fairs, gas stations, and fast food restaurants.

Perverted First Grader

> A first grader was suspended for three days after school officials said he sexually harassed a girl in his class by allegedly putting two fingers inside the girl's waistband while she sat on the floor in front of him. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060208/ap_

A Refreshing Take

> As a conservative evangelical leader, Josh McDowell is one of the last people you'd expect to urge young Christians to see "The Da Vinci Code," the upcoming movie based on the phenomenally best-selling novel. After all, the book argues that Jesus sired a line of

Dissin' Isabella's Memory

Kind of interesting: > The Mississippian took me to meet a local Filipino business magnate and former Interpol officer who helped ODA-145 with information here and there. He had an estate and target range by the wtaer where we fired off 9mm and 5.56mm rounds for an hour. This

eBay Searchin'

My 12-year-old son told me that he was disappointed to learn that not everything is available on eBay. He searched for slaves and found none. I'm not sure how much he was prepared to pay, but I don't need another mouth to feed.

Beating the World

Rodney Stark (an agnostic, by the way) says Christianity put the West ahead of the rest of the world. He explains the reasons in The Victory of Reason [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400062284/thedailyeudem-20], an excellent little book that I'm part-way through (woulda finished it

Mary Magdalene

The New Yorker has published a lengthy piece about Mary Magdalene [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060213fa_fact2]. I haven't had time to read it, and I won't get a chance to do so until this evening or tomorrow (my wife broke her foot,

Site Down

My blog site went down, courtesy of Site5 (my paid provider), for over five hours. Sorry 'bout that. I'll try to resume blogging at full strength tomorrow.