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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

A Frustrated Reader

A reader writes with regard to the "Why the European Giants?" post: > A-a-a-a-g-g-h! You allowed these words to appear on your blog: “thirty-five million who live below the poverty line” referring to Americans. Do you realize that this poverty line

The Crooked Science

Scientists aren't objective. That has been established for years. But now it appears that many aren't even honest. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=2&u=/ap/20050608/ap_on_sc/misbehaving_scientists] . Excerpts: > One-third of

Applauding Our Admin Guy

During the Great Michigan Charter Cable Crash of June 2005 (which occurred yesterday), our administrator put up a few posts for us and a public service announcement. At no charge to TDE. The least we could do is thank him publicly (thanks) and tell everyone that they'd do

Calling Dr. Pierre Barbet

> An Israeli researcher has challenged the popular belief that Jesus died of blood loss on the cross, saying he probably succumbed to a sometimes fatal disorder now associated with long-haul air travel. > Professor Benjamin Brenner wrote in The Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis that Jesus's

RCC Has Female Priests!

> Nine women, including one Canadian and one American, plan to defy the Vatican and become the first female Roman Catholic priests and deacons ordained in North America during a ceremony on a boat on the St Lawrence River next month. . . > The location for the ceremony was chosen because

Leno on New Mental Research

> According to experts at the National Institute of Mental Health, depressed people die much sooner than everyone else. Well, that's just what depressed people need to hear! That should cheer them up!

More Tolerance Meaning Intolerance

> A federal civil rights lawsuit filed today charges that the Poway Unified School District violated the constitutional rights of a student and censored his free speech. The school district threatened further punishment and suspended the student for expressing his religious faith on a T-shirt during a school day

Effective Catholic Schools

This article is especially poignant for Eric Scheske, who attended his sixth-grade son's "graduation" last night from Catholic parochial school. For over fifty years, the school offered K-8 education, but it had to drop grades 7 and 8 due to lack of students and

Continuing Theme

Has anyone else noticed the glut of stories from India involving spiritual con games? > Police in India have arrested a couple who claimed they could cure ill people through 'ghost therapy'. > Kohinoor Bibi and her husband Majid Mandal claimed two ghosts helped them treat their patients,

Why the European Giants?

Europeans, especially folks in the Netherlands, are outgrowing Americans. Here's a link to a fascinating article at The New Yorker. Excerpts: > By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the country seemed set to regain its eminence. The economy was expanding at a dramatic rate, and public-