Eric Scheske

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The Weekend Eudemon

Request: I'm looking for manly blogs. What do I mean by "manly"? Well, that's hard to say, but the following work: blogs that talk about being a husband and father, blogs that exude Tarzan-like manliness, blogs by men that talk about responsibility, blogs by

Sunday Freeze Out

This is the first Sunday in well over a year that didn't feature "Something for Sunday Morning." The reason: my Internet connection went out, and I just got back online. It was about minus 5 degrees here this morning. Maybe the cold affected my connection somehow.

The Friday Eudemon

Slow news day today. A few things: Interesting, though I'm tectonically ignorant: "Africa is being torn apart. And as Ethiopia's rift valley grows slowly wider, an international team of scientists is taking a unique opportunity to plot the progress of continents on the move [http:

Global Warming to Elvis

Drudge this morning has links about a new global warming study that comes out Friday [http://www.drudgereport.com/]. If people don't believe the scientists, it's the scientists fault for cranking out so much hokum the past 50 or more years. The ordinary people who buy

Vegas and Marching Band Max

I don't post many pictures of my children, primarily because I don't want to bore people. But I thought I'd pass along these two pictures of Max (3). He's in his "marching band" outfit: The heck if we can figure

Something for Sunday Morning

> Those who pass through the mystical water in Baptism must put to death in the water the whole phalanx of evil–such as covetousness, unbridled desire, rapacious thinking, the passion of conceit and arrogance, wild impulse, wrath, anger, malice, envy, and all such things. Since the passions naturally pursue

The Weekend Eudemon

Nice weekend so far. I chatted with Lino Rulli on Sirius Radio from 4:20 to 4:40, then met my wife, parents, and friends at the drinking club for two tall glasses of Anchor Stream on tap. We ate dinner there, then rented The Illusionist [http://www.imdb.com/

Up and At 'Em Monday

Monday mornin', and I'm anxious to get to work. It was a frustrating weekend. I had nearly no obligations, but the whole weekend slipped away from me. I had about four writing projects to work on, and I only got a start on two of them. I

Brews You Can Use and Other

> Charles Littleton, 22, was defiant, even after being Tasered by police, when he resisted efforts to remove him from a Saginaw, Mich., City Council meeting. He said he had to stand up for his right to wear his Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap, despite a rule banning hats for

A Brief Thursday

My apologies, but I don't have much time for blogging today. A few quick things: You've heard of the movie Mean Girls. Now, there's the video Stupid Girls: Three teenagers who beat another girl while being videotaped turned the camera on themselves to brag