Eric Scheske

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The Tuesday Eudemon

I like it, I like it a lot: A former prison near Medellin, Colombia will soon be reopened as a Benedictine monastery, according to local officials [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52397]. It triggers thoughts on all sorts of levels: redemption, cloistered, prison of flesh . . . __________ I caught

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With apologies, another short post. Work is simply monopolizing all my time. One short story from five days ago [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2039932.ece]: > With donations to the Church from around the world almost doubling and pilgrims pouring into Rome in ever-greater numbers, Vatican

The Wednesday Eudemon

So the Pope has riled non-Catholics with his new document that says Protestants don't have real churches [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288841,00.html]. I don't pretend to be a theologian, but I'm not sure I fully (partly, but not fully)

Grammar Question

I saw this AP story [http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070710/us_nm/simpsons_contest_dc] about towns called "Springfield" competing to get The Simpson's premier opening. > But in the series' 18-year history it has never been clear which of the 34 Springfield&

The Eudemon Returns

If you hadn't surmised, I was on vacation last week. I won't bore you with details, but I will bore you with pictures and bullet narrative. Thursday, June 21, 2007 A multi-million-dollar business closing got postponed, so I left the office at noon, cleaned the house

Saturday

> [W]hen George Plimpton [acting on behalf of the NEA] paid Aram Saroyan $1,500 for a poem consisting of a single misspelled word "lighght," an Iowa congressional aide dared to ask the dilettantish Plimpton what the poem meant. "You are from the Midwest. You are

Something for Book Nerds

Geilor von Kaysersberg, writing in the early sixteenth century, divided bookish folly into seven types: 1. The fool who collects books for the sake of glory. 2. The fool who wants to grow wise by the consumption of too many books. 3. The fool who collects books without truly reading

The Slow Week Continues

Hilaire Belloc, commenting on the 21st-century euthanasia debate: > It is worth noting, by the way, that the most sentimental people, who are loudest against the right to wage a just war, to execute a criminal, are just the people who are most likely to be in favour of '

Catholics for Ron Paul

A new blog site [http://catholicsforronpaul.blogspot.com/].

Candid Tuesday

You don't often see this type of candor anymore: > I was sufficiently ebullient to consume half a bottle of brandy after dinner. On the way back from dropping off the babysitter I drove our car into the side of a telephone pole. My wife was already safe