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Eric Scheske

Ukraine Vampire

A vampire affiliated with the occult? Say it ain't so: > Diana Butenko, 29, lured homeless youngsters to her apartment saying she would feed them. > But she plied them with booze, got them to sniff glue then tied them to beds. Butenko – now under arrest – slashed their

Toys Lead to Addiction

First toy guns, now toys: > Children at playschool in Austria are having their toys taken away in the belief it will help them fight drug addiction and alcoholism later in life. > The project called 'toy-free kindergartens' will see groups of youngsters forced to go without

International Illegitimacy

Nice piece about the floundering United Nations. Link [http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul257.html]. This excerpt pretty much sums up the problem: > Many conservatives have bought into the neoconservative dream of using the UN as a tool to advance an aggressive US foreign policy. But granting more power

They Can Write?

We try to keep readers abreast of blog trends, so we bring you this: The professional cheerleaders blog. Link [http://nflcheerleader.blogspot.com/]. Edifying excerpt: > Meanwhile, the Ben-Gals are working on their 2006 calendar and recently wrapped up their annual uniform shoot. We're in for a

Longer and Longer Acronyms

Don't ask us how we stumbled upon it, but here's a lesbian writing about this coming weekend's gay pride parade. She adores the parade, but has some problems with it, like this one: > Stand proud Gay Parcheesi Players with Hay Fever! You are

St. Joseph, Pray for Us

From Australia: > Men should swap their role as breadwinner for the "mummy track" employment path and end relationship tensions over work and family, according to a national discussion paper to be released today. . . > Fathers of young children are likely to be working a greater number of

Odd Consumer News

This one cracked us up: > I've been having a lot of fun with the Portable Rotary Phone from Spark Fun Electronics. It's a GSM cell phone built inside an old rotary phone. You pop your SIM card in, it dials out, rings and acts just

Not an Oxymoron?

In case you missed this new phrase: > Catholic evangelicals: This counterintuitive term identifies Roman Catholics who embrace much of the public-witness style of evangelical Protestants. “They have the fire and zeal usually associated with evangelicals,” said William Portier, a religious studies professor at the University of Dayton and

Rachel Carson: Mass Murderer?

According to this disconcerting article [http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7822]: Millions are dying in Asia and Africa due to malaria, which is spread by mosquitoes. DDT cheaply and effectively kills mosquitoes, and allegations of its dangerousness are exaggerated or unfounded, yet we're prevented from using

Weekly Features Post

Issue XXX The title of this Weekly Features Post is sure to attract some shady types: XXX. Boy, will the porners be disappointed. Stoic's Porch "Rehearse death." Seneca More Anonymous Existentialist Ramblings Although Jack Kerouac never completely deserted his native Roman Catholicism, he was infatuated with