Spooky Art
If you, like us, have a moderate taste for the macabre, you may enjoy this site.
Link [http://www.hauntedstudio.com/]. It's full of original spooky paintings,
like this one:
Eric Scheske
King Kong
LOTR's Peter King has re-made King Kong. It comes out in December 2005. The
trailer looks good. Link
[http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/king_kong/large.html].
We hear a lot of complaining, but we like the re-makes. Some are horrible (we're
not
Brews You Can Use Special Edition
Yes, it's not Friday, but it's still the weekend, so we can't resist posting
this great piece from the Wall Street Journal about the booming liquor
industry's variegated ways of putting more liquor on the market, from new
flavors to vodka-soaked
NEGay
The recent NEA convention decided to advance the homosexual agenda, according to
this choppy Washington Times piece
[http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050708-124919-6209r.htm]:
> The National Education Association ended its four-day convention here with a big
victory for members promoting homosexual advocacy, but debate by conservatives
Dying for a Diet
Don't diet. Just live right. That's what the evidence shows. Link
[http://www.techcentralstation.com/060205D.html]. Excerpt:
> It has been well documented that dieting virtually always fails long-term --
about 90 to 95% of the time -- and that dieting drop-out rates are high.
The Weekend Eudemon
Well, it's nice to bring one of our traditional posts back to the stage after a
short lay-off. We haven't had prolonged access to our computer on the weekend
for almost a month.
Eric woke up at 3:55 this morning, which isn't
More PETA Fun
The PETA workers arrested for animal cruelty have potential additional criminal
charges headed their way:
> Now, WAVY-10 reports, police are "trying to figure out if the animals in the
case were euthanized. If so, it could mean more problems for PETA."
> The station noted that
Womyn's Studies in NC
Not exactly dispositive with respect to nationwide interest, but here are
interesting results of a review of Women's Studies at public universities in
North Carolina:
> In 2003, UNC-Chapel Hill had 15,089 undergraduates and only four graduated with
a major in Women's Studies; meanwhile,
Fodder for the Anarchists
> For motorists wondering whether police are working on a quota system, an answer
can be found in Montana.
> A new policy requires state troopers to stop at least one vehicle an hour,
whether the driver has done anything wrong or not. But the driver doesn't have
Calling John the Baptist
> One could say that St. Mark United Church of Christ is bee-deviled. The church
in Clarion County, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, has been infested with
bees in its walls for about seven years. The church tried an exterminator and
that didn't work. Now the