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Eric Scheske

We Knew Drinking Alone Was a Problem . . .

. . . but so is eating alone, at least for children: > [F]ewer than one-third of all children sit down to eat dinner with both parents on any given night. ... The decline in the family dinner has been blamed for the rise in obesity, drug abuse, behavioral problems, promiscuity, poor

A Different Type of Red State?

The Good News in China: > Chinese are embracing Christianity in a social revolution that is spreading through town and countryside to the point where Christians already may outnumber members of the Communist Party of China. > Visits to villages in backward rural provinces or to urban churches in Beijing,

We've Been Waiting for This Momentous Decision!

> Mom-to-be Britney Spears says she'll raise her unborn child to follow the mystical Kabbalah faith. Link [http://www.news24.com/News24/Backpage/HotGossip/0,,2-1343-1344_1747742,00.html] .

Fascinating and Infuriating

Why don't the mainline publishing houses pick up this story? Why no outrage at Islam, that "religion of peace"? Link [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8415]. Excerpt: > Precisely at the moment when Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Rome (and throughout

We're Back

Well, we're back from Alpena, Michigan. We've been re-reading our posts from the past week, and we noticed an assortment of typos and bad writing (we hope someone noticed). Our laptop's screen is small, and we couldn't print out and proof/

Far East Teapot Scandal

A sect noted for its giant teapot that symbolizes its belief in the healing purity of water has been toppled by Malaysian authorities, who say the sect held deviant beliefs to Islam. > The giant teapot and other key structures at the Sky Kingdom commune came tumbling down yesterday after

Ten Favorites

Jeffrey Tucker at Lew Rockwell wrote an entertaining column about the ten people he'd like to meet. A list that includes Ludwig von Mises, St. Cecilia, and Bette Davis is worth consulting. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker56.html]. Excerpt: > Mother Cabrini (1850”“1917). Shorter than

Weekly Features Post

Introductory Words: We apologize up front for an abbreviated Weekly Features Post. If you've been logging on regularly, you know that we've been vacationing in Alpena, Michigan, at Eric Scheske's family cottage on Lake Huron. Wi-Fi has allowed us to blog a little,

Elvis

We've admitted previously: We like Elvis. No, we don't own a velvet Elvis, but we do have some Elvis posters. We bought them mostly for the shock and humor value, but we genuinely enjoy Elvis' music and persona, no matter how shallow and absurd. Perhaps

To Heck with the Horseless Carriage . . .

. . . we need a cow-less one: > California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog-forming pollutant.