Happy Fourth
Happy Fourth of July to all our readers.
We'll spend it picking up trash at the local airport. It's one of the charitable
endeavors Eric undertakes, since he's very good at it. It's like he has twelve
arms, ten of which are
Eric Scheske
Energy Beers
Regular readers of this blog know that two of our "side" interests are
advertising and beer. We, accordingly, found this analysis
[http://www.beveragebusiness.com/bbcontent/art98/bryson0405.html] of
"malternatives" and their marketing interesting. Excerpts:
> The core malternatives - Smirnoff Ice, Mike's Hard,
Dawn Eden: RCCC
While we were on vacation last week, Dawn Eden at The Dawn Patrol announced that
she's joining the Catholic Church. Here's her explanation. Link
[http://www.dawneden.com/2005/06/how-i-became-catholic-i-wuzpart-1.html].
Excerpt:
> C.S. Lewis wrote that those
Curing Boys
What's so hard to understand? Girls good, boys bad:
> "Modern American teachers are often taught in education school that fairly
normal signs of 'male' behavior, like overflowing energy or aggressiveness, must
be severely tamped down. ...
> "It is very natural for boys to
That Counts as Sex?
We never knew. Eric Scheske is gonna be grabbing his wife's arm a lot for now
on. It'll reduce the number of unexpected NFP births.
> Fitzroy Barnaby said he had to swerve to avoid hitting the 14-year-old Des
Plaines girl who walked in
Replacing Spouses
> It is the ultimate back seat driver. Motorists face having their cars fitted
with a “spy” device that stops speeding.
> The satellite-based system will monitor the speed limit and apply the brakes or
cut out the accelerator if the driver tries to exceed it. A government-funded
More Vampires Coming
What's next? How-to-Make-Yourself a Priest for Dummies (it wouldn't be for
anyone else)?
> A French woman defied a threat of excommunication by the Roman Catholic Church
and held a ceremony proclaiming herself a priest on Saturday.
> In a small ceremony on
Infiltrating the Bedroom and Kitchen
Spain isn't just allowing gay marriage. It's also requiring men to do their
share of the house work.
> The vows that couples take in a civil marriage ceremony are to change. Not only
will the spouses have to promise to be faithful, live together and
More than Fried Chicken and NASCAR
> Bobbing for pig feet, the mudpit belly-flop, the armpit serenade - they're all
part of the Redneck Games [ http://redneckgames.tripod.com ], a series of good
ole'ympic events for the ain't-so-athletic celebrating their 10th year in middle
Georgia.
> Started as
Dating in the 21st Century
Ridiculously well-read Mike Aquilina [http://www.mikeaquilina.com/books.html]
has two teenage children, and he's a little nervous. To help prepare for the sex
and dating questions, he read three books:
Christian Courtship in an Oversexed World: A Guide for Catholics
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/