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Eric Scheske

Scary Specter

We weren't going to cover the Supreme Court battles here, but we suspect they're going to get too bizarre to ignore. Round one of weirdness: Specter wants Bush to appoint O'Connor as Chief Justice. NYT Link [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/politics/

Bring in the Cloons

> George Clooney is spending time in Edinburgh, Scotland after appearing at last night's final Live 8 concert in the city's Murrayfield stadium, to put pressure on the G8 leaders to tackle world poverty. Link [http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/#celeb8].

Anti-Commie Comics

The Authentic History Center has put a series of comic book issues from the 1960s on line. They're "This Godless Communism," a look at Communism's threat to the U.S. and Catholics, published by the Catholic Guild. We didn't read all the

Running of the Bulls

It's tradition and odd, so we cover it: > Four people were injured during the third running of the bulls here on Saturday, emergency services said. > A 24-year-old man was taken to hospital after being gored twice in his right thigh and at the base

Lost Art

Another little art sacrified to the pursuit of money, efficiency, and rootless ideas of personal fulfillment: > Even as "food culture" blossoms in countless cookbooks and chef shows, many adults simply don't know cooking basics. Experts blame it on a transmission breakdown. While parents traditionally shared

The New Urbanism

The forthcoming issue of The American Conservative has a great piece by William S. Lind on the New Urbanism. Lind concedes that New Urbanism has often become the province of eco-extremists and other lovers of big government that would use coercion to enforce their ideas. But, he says, New

Harry Potter Coins

Eric Scheske isn't a big Harry Potter fan, but his wife and oldest son, Alex, love the books (last count, Alex had read one of the books (stifle gag) eight times). So this is for them: How to make your own Harry Potter coins: > You'll

Looking for an Aggressive Lawyer

Can we get a restraining order on this? > Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone will direct superstar Nicholas Cage in the first major Hollywood movie about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, producers announced. > The as-yet untitled film, which will be made for Paramount Pictures, will tell

Weathermen with Scimitars

> Intelligence experts and Islamic leaders agree that Thursday July 7 marks the bloody emergence of home-grown Islamic terrorism in Britain rather than the arrival of Al-Qaeda's bombers on these shores. The favourite hypothesis of investigators is that the bomb teams comprised a cell of some

Communism's Lamer Than We Thought

> A Cuban newspaper says Air Supply are "idols for thousands of Cubans." The paper writes "we would never have imagined that one day they would come here -- and here they are!!" > Fans went nuts when the group sang "All Out of Love"