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Blogging from the shores of Lake Huron, about 100 miles south of the Straits of Mackinac (pronounced, mak-in-awe, with accent on first syllable), near Alpena, Michigan. Eric is spending a week at his family's cottage. Known as “Sandcrest,” it has been in his family since the 1940s. Eric&

We found this interesting. Dorothy Day on anarchist government: > The state is government by representation (when it is a democracy) but there is no reason why a Catholic must believe that people must be governed by representatives --the Catholic is free to believe one way or the other, as

Blogging will be a little light for the next couple of days. No, Eric Scheske isn't off on another important mission (unless killing little brown men, six at a time, counts). But he will be on the road and will have only occasional access to the Internet. We

The New York Times has run an article about the Futuro House, a little pre-fab from the 1970s. Sixty or so still exist, but it appears there's a growing interest in them (which the NYT article will no doubt feed). Who knows, perhaps they'll go back

> Two gay Iranian teenagers -- one 18, the other believed to be 16 or 17, were executed this week for the "crime" of homosexuality . . . > Consensual gay sex in any form is punishable by death in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the website Age of

. . . they would have been protected and the righteous crowd dispersed with tear gas: > Police in Inuvik had to escort eight men out of the town last weekend after a mob threatened to remove the group from the community by force. > Police say they defused a potentially violent situation

If you haven't read about the sentencing of 62 raging pedophiles in Frances, you can get details here. Link [http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1744877,00.html]. Warning: It's nasty and disturbing. We won't cut-and-paste anything here, except to mention

Interesting article about the local option: to allow alcohol in your town or not. Link [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0727/p11s01-lihc.html]. Excerpt: > Hundreds of counties remain dry, [Sociology Professor David] Hanson says. Although the temperance movement of the late 1820s was rooted mainly in the North, most

> Two women who took turns steering a broken-down vehicle face drunk driving charges after their slow-moving car crashed into a parked car. . . > Authorities said the women were operating the vehicle while intoxicated - even though the car's engine wasn't working. > A prosecutor acknowledged