Eric Scheske

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Light blogging today. I'm busier than a tornado in a trailer park. A few quick bites, though: *The prosecutors dropped the case against the Ramsey confessor faster than they drop drunk driving cases against Kennedys. *The new Gilbert Magazine is out. Read about it at Chesterton and Friends

New Anthology

The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393327760/thedailyeudem-20]: I wasn't even aware of this anthology. Now I'm aware of it, and I don't want it. Link to unfavorable review [http://www.

Boomergedden

More and more piling on the baby boomers . . . and deservedly so [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4798825.stm]. Excerpt: > Environmental degradation, social breakdown, rampant consumerism, even disease... is it any wonder that US commentator Joe Queenan (born 1950) once wrote: "If you want

Easter Rat Farm

The scholarly environmentalists have been telling us for years that human ecological aggression killed Easter Island [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island]. That might not be the case. It was rats [http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/53200?fulltext=true&print=yes] .

The Weekend Eudemon

No doubt on Friday: A brutal week at the office gave way to a decent Friday. I finished this month's column for National Catholic Register, and had a first draft of my weekly Catholic Exchange column done. It was the first weekend in eight weeks that I didn&

Beerbohm

It's Max Beerbohm's birthday today. Link [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/happy-birthday-max.html]. I don't know much about him, but Chesteron liked him and Joseph Epstein likes him. I read just recently that, when Epstein was first married and suffering the financial pangs

Where's the Fun in That?

> A stem cell breakthrough by American scientists is set to overturn ethical objections to potentially live-saving research. > They have found how to make stem cells from embryos without destroying the embryo in the process - an advance that could open the door to billions of dollars in research

Great Quotes

Fr. Joe serves up an assortment of great quotes [http://fatherjoe.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/humorous-quotes/], many of which I've never seen before.

Buchanan Book

Drudge "reviews" Pat Buchanan's new book [http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpjb.htm]. If memory serves, the two are friends. But no matter: I like Buchanan, and I line up more with his thinking than I do the neo-cons that are currently in power. Unfortunately, based on

Word Pollution . . .

. . . It's worse than I thought: > James Billington, the head of the Library of Congress, told me about a report estimating that digital information equivalent in scale to the contents of all the library's books is produced by the world's computers every fifteen minutes.